218 OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Vaccinium. 



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

 of the tube, as many as the segments of the h*mb, and al- 

 ternate with them, yinth. linear, erect, shorter than the 

 corolla. Germ, superior, ovate-oblong. aS/'j//^ cylindrical, 

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

 long, cloven. Caps, ovate, with a furrow along each side, 

 invested with the enlarged, membranous tube of the co- 

 rolla, 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. perfoliata. Perfoliate Yellow- wort. 

 Leaves perfoliate. Panicle forked, many-flowered. 



C. perfoliata. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 1 2. v. 2. 267. mild. Sp. PL v. 2. 

 340. Fl. Br. 413. Engl Bot. v.l.t. 60. Hook. Lond. t. 2. Dicks. 

 H. Sice, f CISC. 14. 13. Purt. ?;. 1. 193. 



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



Gentiana perfoliata. Linn. Sp. PI. 335. 



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



Centaurium luteum perfoliatum. Bauh. Pin. 278. Raii Syu.287. 

 Camer. Epit. 427. f. Moris, v. 2. 565. sect. 5. t. 26. f. I. 



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



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. Stem 12 or 18 inches high, erect, 

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

 peatedly forked panicle, of many elegant, bright yellow^ow;e7\9, 

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

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

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

 Erijthrcea, but weaker. Fl. without scent. There is some mis- 

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



214. VACCINIUM. Wbortle-berry. 



Linn.Gen.\9\. Juss.\62. Fl. Br. 414. Rees's Ojcl. v. 36. Lam. 



t.2S6. Gccrtn. t.2S. 

 Vitis Idaea. Tourn. t. 377. 

 Oxycoccus. Tourn. t. 431. 



Nat. Ord. Bicornes. Linn. 18. EriccV. Juss. 51. Vacci- 

 nia:. DeCand. 71. 



