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PL 16. A, 
VACCINIUM MACROCARPON, AMERICAN ` 
CRANBERRY. 
Clafs and Order; 
OcTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. | 
: gee | Generic Charaéter. e 
Cal. íuperus, Cor. 1 -petala ; Filamenia receptaculo inferta, - 
"ei Bacca. 4-locularis, polyfperma. 
Specific Character. 
| VACCINIUM Macrocarpon, foliis integerrimis ovali-oblongis 
obtufis planis, caulibus repentibus filiformibus. Hort. Kezez. 
Flowers May, June, and July; and though its bloffoms 
poffefs not a diftinguifhed luxuriancy of color, a portion of 
. delicacy amply makes amends, and certainly entitles it. to 
. A place in the border. e : 
_ It is not a plant which generally brings its fruit to perfec- 
tion in this country; though it fometimes does; when it fails, 
it may proceed from the ill health of the plant, from inju- 
. dicious management, from foil, or from feafon. 
“Is increafed by feeds, or by layering, which, as it creeps 
on the Ground, is very eafily managed. 
The naturalift, among the profufion of fingularly con- 
| ftru&ed objects feen by the affiftance of the microfcope, will 
find the ftamens, &c. of this plant, no way unworthy his 
notice. 
“ [s a native of North America, and was cultivated in 
s 1763, by Mr. Jamas Gorpon.” Hort, Kewen. 
