GAYLUSSACIA RESINOSA (Ait.) T. & G.
fraceiniunz resinosum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : I 2. 1789. Gaylussacia resinosa T. & G.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. I : 449. 1843.
A rigid branching shrub 3-12 dm. tall, its twigs and foliage more or less pubescent and sticky with a resinous secretion when young, leaves firm, the blades elliptic, oval or oblong, sometimes broadest above the middle, firm, obtuse or apiculate, entire, cilio late, short petioled ; flowers in lateral drooping racemes ; pedi cels 2—S mm. long, usually with two narrow bracts ; calyx about 2 mm. broad, its 5 segments ovate, obtuse, about as long as the
tube ; corolla obconic, red or reddish-green, 5-6 mm. long, more or less constricted near the apex, the segments ovate, spreading or recurved, revolute, obtuse ; filaments winged, pubescent, shorter than the anthers, each cavity of which is prolonged into a tube ; drupes globose, 6—io mm. in diameter, black or rarely white, sweet.
In rocky woods and hillsides, Newfoundland to the Saskatche wan, south to Georgia. Spring; matures its fruit in the summer.