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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

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

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