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lour. Leaves membranaceous, slightly serrulate, often ovate. 

 Fascicles 6 — 8-flowered. Calyx green, with acute, somewhat 

 spreading teeth. Corolla pale red, small. Stamens included ; 

 anthtrs naked at the base. Style a little exserted. Berries 

 dark blue, somewhat glaucous, sweet. 

 Hab. On dry rocky hills. May — June. 



This is the most common species of IVhortle-berry brought 

 to the New-York market. 



8. V. lenellum jiit.: racemes bracteate, sessile; corolla 

 ovate-cylindrical ; leaves oblong-elliptic, subcuneiform, ser- 

 rulate, nearly smooth. jiit. Kew. II. p. 12. Willd, 

 Spec, II. p. 353. 



Hab. In New-Jersey and Pennsylvania. April. Muhlen- 

 b erg. On the White Hills of New-Hampshire. B o o 1 1, 



This species has not come under my observation. It is not 

 the V. tenellum of Furs/i, which is our ^lennsylvanicum. 



9. V. ligustrinum Mich. : branches angular ; leaves 

 subsessile, erect, lanceolate, mucronate, serrulate; fascicles 

 gemmaceous, sessile ; flowers nearly sessile ; corolla oblong, 

 ovate. Mich. i7. I. p. 233. nee. Lin. Pursh FL\. 

 p. 288. excl. syn. Willd. 



A small shrub; branches straight and erect, slender. Leaves about 

 three-fourths of an inch long, and three lines broad, very acute, 

 hairy on the margin and midrib, conspicuously veined beneath- 

 Corolla purple, with the floral scales at the base of the same 

 colour. 



Hab. In dry woods. Pennsylvania to Virginia. Pursh. 



A delicate and handsome species, of which I have seen no 

 northern specimens. 



/S. Fhnvera tolitary. 



10. V. uliginosum L. : leaves obovate, very obtuse, en- 

 tire, smooth above, veined and glaucous beneath ; flowers 

 subsolitary, octandrous; corolla short ovate, 4-cleft ; anthers 

 awned at the base. W ill d. Spec. U.y. 350. Smith Fl. 

 Brit, I. p. 415. Eng. Bot. t. 581. M i c h. Fl. I. p. 235, 

 Pursh Fl. I. p. 288. V. Gaidtheroides Big. inMeio- 

 Eng. Med. Jour. V. p. 335. 



A small procumbent shrub ; branches straggling and rigid. 

 Leaves scarcely half an inch long, rounded at the extremity, 

 sessile ; under surface pale, conspicuously veined. Flowers 

 mostly solitary, small, subterminal, on short recurved pedicels. 

 Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla urceolate, contracted at the orifice. 

 Stamens 8, (sometimes 10, Mich. J, included; anthers bi- 

 aristate on the back near the base. Style persistent, shorter 

 than the corolla ; stigma simple. Berries oblong. 

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