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VACCINIUM NITIDUM (3.) DECUMBENS. RED* 

 TWIGGED DECUMBENT WHORTLE-BERR Y. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. (Octandria auclorum pluriitm.) 



Generic CharaBer. 



Cal. fuperus. Cor. urccolata aut campanulata 4 — 5-da : laciniis 

 reflexis. Filam. receptaculo infcrta. Bacca 4 — 5-locularis, po- 

 ly iperrna. Stamina 8—10. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



VACCINIUM nitidum ; (fruticulus fempervfrens) caule ramo- 

 fifljmo, foliis obovatis acutis baft anguftatis obfolete ferru- 

 latis, racemis corymbofis terminalibus lateral ibufque brae- 

 teatis. 



W-cauleereao, corollis fubcylindricis. 



VACCINIUM nitidum. Bot. Repof. 480. 



(p-J caule decumbentc, corollis ovatis. 



V ACCINIUM Myrjinites. DonnHort. Cantab. vixtamcnMichatixiK 



D e sc. A CmaWyfrrub, crowded with decumbent filiform branches 

 J? f a bright red colour. Leaves evergreen, fmall, obovate, ob- 

 loletely ferrate, mining on the upper furface, paler on the 

 underfide, and befet with fhort fiiff hairs, hardly vifiblc to the 

 naked eye, which turn black and in this ftate give a dotted 

 a Ppearance to the leaf. To the tafte they are not unplcafantly 

 acid. Thefiowers grow in fhort corymbofe racemes, from the 

 extremities of the branches; fometimes, in cultivation, folitary 

 ^nd axillary, which apparently arifes from the brades becoming 

 Jeaves. Pedicles fometimes longer, fometimes fhortcr than the 

 0Wer > often of a fine mining red colour. Bracles bright red, 

 J^ er y unequal in fize, fome lanceolate, others oval and concave. 

 u ty* fuperior, five-cleft, deep red ; fegments triangular acute, 



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