number), I must leave the reader to judge for himself, only 
observing that, if, as is more than probable, it is some de- 
scribed Vaccinium, the characters I have above alluded to 
are no where expressed. The figure of V. amenum of 
Bot. Reg. t. 400, and particularly of Bot. Rep. t. 138, are 
very like our plant: but Mr. Don, in the Cycl. of Gard. 
and Bot. has decidedly referred them to the V. corymbosum, 
as Sir James Smitn has the amenum of Hort. Kew., upon 
the authority of original specimens. It may possibly be 
the V. album of Lam. (not of Liyy., for that Sir James 
Smiru has ascertained to be Xytosteum ciliatum, 6. Ph. nor 
of Pursu, which is V. accinium stamineum) ; but the descrip- 
tion is too vague to allow a correct judgment to be formed. 
Thus circumstanced, however anseiiingly, I am obliged to 
give a new name to our present plant, and that one expres- . 
sive of a mark by which it is at once distinguishable from 
its near ally, V. corymbosum. It has been received at the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, from North America, and it 
flowers in May. 
Descr. A small shrub, with spreading, green, rounded 
branches, of which the younger ones are hairy. Leaves 
oval-lanceolate or lanceolate, nearly sessile, slightly acu- 
minate, membranaceous, wavy, minutely serrulated, and 
ciliated at the margin, beneath more or less hairy, especially 
on the midrib and nerves, with spreading hairs. Flowers 
in short corymbose, bracteated racemes of the preceding 
year’s branches, which are either leafless, or which throw 
out short leafy branches from immediately below the ra- 
cemes. Bracteas quickly deciduous. Calyx of five, spread- 
ing, almost reflexed, membranaceous, green teeth, sometimes 
tinged with brown. Corolla broadly oval, dingy white, 
scarcely at all furrowed, the mouth very slightly contracted, 
and having five small, recurved teeth. Stamens ten: fila- 
. ments short, broad, hairy on the outside and at the margins : 
Anthers acuminated, bifid. Germen wholly inferior, its 
summit presenting a flattened, or slightly convex disk : Sty/e 
longer than the stamens, slenderer than that of V. cory” 
bosum. 
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Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Stamens. 3. Side view of the Pistil and uy* f 
4. Front view of ditto, showing the flattened or slightly convex summit 0 
the Germen magnified. 
