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P L A T E XXX.
VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLLUS.
Madeira Whortie-berry.
C L A S S VIIL ORDER I.
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pomtal.
G E N E R I C
CALYX. Perianthiurn minimum, fuperum, perfiftens.
COROLLA, Monopetala, campanulata, quadrifida;
laciniis reyolutis.
STAMINA. Filamenta oao, fimplicia. Anthera;
bicornes, dorfo ariBis duabus pateutibus
infiruflae, apice dehifcentes.
PISTILLUM. Germen iuferum. Stylus limplex,
fìaminibus longior. Stigma obtulum.
rEKiCABPiuM. Bacca globofa, umbilicata, quadrilocularis.
SEMINA pauca, parva.
S P E C I F I C
Vaccinium, floribus racemofis; fcliis crenulatis,
ovatis, acutis; cauie arboreo.
C H A R A C T E R .
EMPALEMENT. Cup very fmall, above, and permanent.
BLOSSOM. One petal, bell-fliaped, four-cleft;
fegments rolled back.
CHIVES. Eight threads, fimple. Tips with two
horns, and furniilied with two fpreading
awns at the back, opening at the points.
PoiNTAL. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple,
longer than the chives. Summit blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. A globular berry, witli a hollow
dimple, and four cells.
SEEDS few, and fmall.
C H A R A C T E R .
Whortle-berry, with flowers growing in bunches ;
leaves flightly fcollopped, egg-fliaped, and
pointed; item woody.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement, Pointal, and Chives; the blolTom removed
2. A Chive (magnified).
3. The Shaft, and its Summit (magnified).
4. A ripe Berry (natural fize).
NUMEROUS are the difficulties w^hich occur in arranging plants according to any yet invented fyflemand
al hough the lexual fads in the feweft inftances, yet that is fometimes the ca e. The plan b S ^
. s although in habit fruit, feemingly perfea.y allied to Vaccinium, and. from which 0 ^
I under that genus, yet we douot whether if Linn.us had examined the flower W
't under the name it here bears, and we have no doubt of its being the plant
I — u l d not have clalfed it in Oaandr ia; for certainly it has in every i n d a n c e l n cHve"
with the border of the b oliom of five fegments; the threads attached to the bloVom. Bu as i ^
the profeiTed intention of this work as little as poffible to confufe, by the introduaion of new L m
for plants already known by eftabliilied, and generally accepted ones; though erroneous from inco
reanels, or otherwife, in the author who firil publiflied them; we fliall attempt an alteration but
rarel,. and that cautiouily, or for ver,^ glaring reafons; being thoroughly convinced of the difficui,
of retaining oi^y one name for each plant. The Vaccinium Araoftaphyllus is a native of the ¡".nd
of Madeira, where it grows to a confiderable height: it has not been Lny years cuUivated in ^ r
gardens; having been introduced to us firft by Mr. F. MaiTon about the year I786. The wfnters h
common of this climate are too fevere for it, tlierefore ihould be protefted, although it will fo iv
a mild one: it is beft preferved in a pot, and kept as a greenhoufe plant, where it is very ornameTt
flowering about the months of July and Augull; thriving beft in light mould, or p e a t r a n d T p ^
pagated by cutUngs, or the feed, which it produces in abundance ' P '
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