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PLATE CV.
V A C C I N I UM CRASSIFOLIUM.
Thick-leaved Whortle-herry.
CLASS vm. ORDER L
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTEE.
CALYX fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Filamenta
receptáculo inferta. Eacca quadrilocularis,
polyfperma.
CUP fnperior. Eloflbm of one petal. Threads
fixed to the receptacle. A berry with four
cells, and many feeds.
S e e V o l . I. PI. X X X . VACCINIUM AKCTOSTAPHYLLUS.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Vaccinium foliis ovatis, ferratis, rigidis, craffiufculis;
floribus fub-umbellatis, tei'minalibus;
calycibus adpreffis; corollis campanula
tisj flamina decern.
Whortle-berry with oval leaves fawed at the
edges, ftiff, and thickilh; flowers grow
nearly in umbels, at the end of the
branches; cups preffed to the bloffom;
bloffoms bell-ihaped; ten chives.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. Cup and Seed-bud, natural fize.
2. A Eloflbm cut open.
3. The Chives and Seed-bud, the leaflets of the cup cut off, magnified.
4. The Pointal, magnified.
THIS Ipecies of Whortle-berry was introduced from Carolina, about the year 1/94, by Mr. J. Frafer,
nurferyman. It is another of thofe with ten chives, five cells in the berry, and five fegments in the
borders of the cup and bloiibm. It is an evergreen, and will live through a mild winter, on a warm
border; but cannot refift the cold of a fevere one, though a fmall degree of proteftion is fufficient for
its prefervation. As a greenhoufe plant, it is very decorative, flowering about June; in which month
this year our drawing was made, at the Hammerfmith nurfery, from a plant in that colleélion. The
pabulum bell calculated to preferve it in a flourilhing ftate, is a mixture compofed of fandy peat two
parts, and light loam one part. To propagate it, the younger branches ihould be laid down about
the end of May, and they will be rooted by the enfuing fpring.
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