218 OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Vaccinium. 



the tube. Filam. thread-shaped, short, from the mouth 

 of the tube, as many as the segments of the limb, and 

 alternate with them. Anth. linear, erect, shorter than the 

 corolla. Germ, superior, ovate-oblong. Style cylindrical, 

 rather longer than the tube, erect. Stigmas 2, ovate- 

 oblong, cloven. Caps, ovate, with a furrow along each 

 side, invested with the enlarged, membranous tube of the 

 corolla, of 1 cell, and 2 valves with inflexed margins. Seeds 

 very numerous, angular, minutely granulated, inserted in 

 many rows along the inflexed margins of the valves. 

 Herbaceous, annual, smooth, glaucous, very bitter. Leaves 

 opposite or perfoliate, undivided, entire. Fl. terminal, 

 stalked, aggregate or solitary, yellow. 



1. C pejifoliata. Perfoliate Yellow- wort. 

 Leaves perfoliate. Panicle forked, many-flowered. 



C. perfoliata. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 1 2. r. 2. 267. ff-'iUd. Sp. PL v. 2. 

 340. Fl.Br. 4\3. Engl.Bot.v.l. t.60. Hook. Lond. t.2. Dicks. 

 H. Sicc.fasc. 14. 13. Purt. v. 1. 193. 



Chlora. Renealm. Spec. 80. t. 76. 



Gentiana perfoliata. Linn. Sp. PL 335. 



G. n. 649. Hall Hist. v. 1 . 289. 



Centaurium luteum perfoliatum. Bauh. Pin. 278, Rail Syn. 287. 

 Corner. Epit. 427./. Moris, v. 2. 565. sect 5. t. 26. f. 1 . 



C. parvum luteum Lobelii. Ger. Em. 547./. 



On chalky hills, or banks, as well as on a clay soil, not very un- 

 common. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root of a few twisted fibres. Ste7n 1 2 or 1 8 inches high, erect, 

 round, leafy, unbranched, terminating in an upright, leafy, re- 

 peatedly forked panicle, of many elegant, bright yeWow Jlowers, 

 open in sunshine only, with scarlet siiginas. Leaves ovate, acute, 

 combined and perfoliate. The whole herb is very glaucous, sub- 

 ject to mildew ; its qualities similar to those of Gentiana and 

 Erythrcea, but weaker. FL without scent. There is some mis- 

 take in Professor Hooker's citation of FL Dan. t. 332. 



214. VACCINIUM. Whortle-berry. 



Linn. Gen. \9\. Juss.l62. FLBr.4\4. Rees's CycL v. 36. Lam. 



t. 286. Gcertn. t. 28. 

 Vitis Idaea. Tourn. t.377. 

 Oxycoccus. Tourn. t.43\. 



Nat. Ord. Bicornes. Linn. IS. Erkcc. Juss. 5\. Vacci- 

 • nice. DeCand. 71. 



