three times fiiorter than the corolla^ which is urceolate, white 

 ftreaked more or lefs with red : limb five-toothed, revolute. 

 Stamens ten : filaments flat, cohering together at the bafe, where 

 they are inferted into the receptacle or crown of the germen : 

 anthers ere£t, bifid, of a deep red colour. Germen globular, 

 five-celled, many-feeded : jiyle longer than the ftamens, ereci : 

 jiigma capitate, not exferted. 



Upon comparing this plant with the fpecimen of Vacciniu.u 

 Myrjinites of Michaux, brought over by Mr. Pursh, and 

 now in the Herbarium of A, B. Lambert, Efq. it does not 

 appear to be the fame fpecies, that having thicker more exa&ly 

 oval leaves, not narrowed at both extremities. Michaux 

 indeed mentions that it varies with fublanceolate leaves, but 

 thofe of our plant are conftantly oblong-obovate, narrowed at 

 the bafe into a fhort footftalk. Upon comparing it with living 

 fpeeimens of V. nitidum of the Botanift's Repofitory, we can fee 

 no difference but that one is erecl the other decumbent. $o 

 that if this be a narrower-leaved variety of Myrfinitesy we think 

 Vaccinium nitidum muft be fo too. 



Native of South-Carolina. Flowers in May and June, h 

 more tender than the upright variety, and requires the prote&ion 

 of the greenhoufe. Communicated by MefTrs. Lod dices and 

 Sox?. 



