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HUCKLEBERRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 848 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUCKLEBERRY , in See also:

botany, the popular name in the See also:north-eastern See also:United States of the genus Gaylussacia, small branching shrubs resembling in See also:habit the See also:English See also:bilberry (Vaccinium), to which it is closely allied, and bearing a similar See also:fruit. The See also:common huckleberry of the See also:northern states is G. resinosa; while G. brachycera and G. dumosa are known respectively as See also:box and See also:dwarf huckleberry. The name Gaylussacia commemorates the famous See also:French chemist See also:Gay-Lussac.

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