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FACCINIUM* ovatum. 



Ovate-Ieaved Bilberry. 



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OCTANDRIA OR DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



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Nat.ord. Vaccinie^. ' / 



VACCINIUM.—Supr<i, vol 4. fol 302. 



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V. ovatum ; ramulis hirtis, foliis sempervirentibus ovatis conaceis lucidis 

 serratis glabris margine revolutis, racemis brevibus axillaribus deHexis, 

 corollis subglobosis 5-dentatis, calycinis dentibus acutis. 

 V. ovatum. Purshfl. am. sept. l.l'^O. Spreng. syst. 2. 2\2. 



, Frutex dense: foliosus, sempervirens, pedalis v. hipedalis, ramulis fitrtis 

 patentibus, v. recurvis. Folia coriacea, lucida, ovata, acuta, serrata, sub- 

 disticha, breviter petiolata, utrinque glaberrima; petiolis pubescentibus. 

 Racemi foliis breviores, defiexi, sub foliis latentes, glabriuscub, bractets 

 brevibus, oval^micullatis. Ovarium subrotundum, glabrum ; calycis denies 

 breves, acut>ff^brce. Corolla subglobosa, carnea, 5-dentata ; dentibus 



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Baccae pisi magnitudine. 



A native of the north-west of America, whence it was 

 sent to the Horticultural Society. It is a hardy handsome 

 evergreen shrub, flowering in March and April. 



The figure represents the state of the plant when about 



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The lexicographers say this word is of unknown meaning 

 ;^«^,i 1... T>i;°„ u.-^ :« r™;i:,.^ t« fh^ rlnssiral reader bv its 



It is not 



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nigra were the flowers of Delphinium Ajacis, a plant which has Deen 

 tured to be the i»K,\^6, of the Greeks ; and hence it has been t^o" 

 Vaccinium Jts^lf «,«« nnthlup- more than a Latin alteration ot Myacn 



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'ttcminus. But It IS most prooaoie mai luc ^j «.-.—-- - „xi„' -rkpd- 

 Gladiolus communis, on the flowers of which Ai Ai is dist-ctly mark^ed ^ 



termVaccmia nigra could not be .^^^^^ 



fruit 



wrote 



ligustra 



