GAYLUSSACIA TOMENTOSA Pursh. Gaylussacia frondosa var. tomeidosa A. Gray. Syn. Fl. N. A. 2 : Pt. 19. 1878.
Gaylussacia tontentosa Pursh ; A. Gray. Syn. H. N. A. 2 : Pt.
1, 19. As synonym. 1878.
A low shrub, spreading by underground stems, the foliage ton entose with brownish hairs. Leaves leathery, the blades of long or elliptic, often slightly broadest above the middle, 2.5-7 cm. long, obtuse and apiculate at the apex or sometimes notched, n-tomentose on both sides, densely so beneath, short-petioled; racemes few-flowered ; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, much longer than the bracts ; calyx glabrous, about 3.5 mm. broad, the segments ovate, acute, about as long as the tube ; corolla campanulate, 3.5
mm. long, the segments ovate, obtuse, about as long as broad, the tips recurved, the edges revolute ; filaments dilated, glabrous ; anthers longer than the filaments, prolonged into slender tubes ; drupes depressed-globose, 8-9 mm. in diameter, glaucous.
In sandy soil, Georgia and Florida. Spring ; matures its fruit in the summer.
Like the preceding species, Gaylussacza tomentosa has under ground stems, but it differs from it in the brown-tomentose foliage, more robust habit, larger leaves and different leaf-form. The fruit of G. tomentosa is larger and much more fleshy than that of G. nana.