CALYX fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Filamenta
receptáculo inferta. Bacca quadrilocukris,
polyfperma.
Vaccinium foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris; floribus
foUtariis, axillaribus; pedunculis longiffimis,
bradeatis; corollis urceolatis fubalbidis;
fiamina decern.
P L A T E CXII.
V A C C I N I U M DUMOSUM.
Bujìiy Whortle-herry.
C L A S S vm. ORDER L
OCTENDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CUP fuperior. Bloffom of one petal. Threads
fixed to the receptacle. A Beny witli four
cells and many feeds.
See VAC. AKCTOSTAPHYLLOS, Pl.XXX. Vol. I.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Whortle-berry with oval, pointed, fmooth leaves;
flowers grow folitary from the foot-ftalk of
the leaves, clofe to the ftem; foot-ftalks of
the flowers are very long, having floral
leaves; bloflbms pitcher - fliaped, nearly
white; ten chives.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower complete.
3. The Cup and its Foot-ftalk, -« ith the floral Leaves.
3. The Seed-bud, Pointal, and Chives.
4. The fame, magnified.
5. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified.
T „ r s fpec:es of \^ hortlc-bero. as a neat, compaft, buft.y ihrub; and like all the reft of thofe which
have ten chzyes and the other parts confonant, can fcarcely be confidered as a hardy plant- for
although .t w. I hve through a mild winter, if planted in a warm and dry fltuation, on a ^ o n b Í
d r; yet U WUI m general be deftroyed, by the fevere frofts which happen late in f;ring. It T o M
beplanted m fandy peat eartl,, with a fmall portion of light loam; may be propagated by layers
do not commonly root, fufficiently to be taken off, under twoyears f r omUt ime of t L f h l g ^
fhTmonti of i e ' T ' f 'Í " " ^ ^^^ ^^er Í L
n a r e n n e d v bv wh "" J was xnade, at the nurfery of Meffrs.Lee
and Jtennedy, by whom it was mtroduced from North America in the year 1783.
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