. GAYLUSSACIA IIIRTELLA (Ait.) Klotzsch.
Vaccinium hirtelluHz Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2. 2: 357. IS I I. Gaylussacia hirtella Klotzsch, Linnaea, 48. 1840. Gaylussacia dumosa var. hirtella A. Gray, Man. 259. 1848.
A shrub, with underground stems, the branches, twigs and in florescence bristly-hispid, the tips of the hairs with minute glands ; leaves firm, the blades oblanceolate-spatulate or elliptic, 3-6 cm. long, apiculate, glandular-ciliate sparingly hispid above, short petioled ; racemes many-flowered ; calyx hispid, 6 mm. broad, the segments triangular, rather acuminate, about as long as the tube; corolla broadly campanulate, 7-8 mm. long, the segments broader
than long, the tips recurved, the edges revolute ; filaments short, pubescent ; anthers longer than the filaments, prolonged into fili form tubes; drupe not seen.
In sand, Florida to Louisiana. Spring; fruit ripe in the summer.
Certainly distinct from Gaylussacia dumosa, from which it dif fers in habit, size and leaf characters. The pubescence is always diagnostic, the corolla is larger and much thinner than that of G.
duntosa, while the calyx-segments are longer and usually acumi nate.