264 Mr. Lambert's Account of 



by Professor Georgi in his Beschreibung des Russichen Reiclis, but 

 yet unpublished ; a new species of Rumex, R. graminifolius of 

 Professor Rudolph, whose specimens of it I have also received 

 through the kindness of my friend Dr. E. D. Clarke, of Cam- 

 bridge ; the beautiful and rare Lilium camtschat cense of Linnaeus; 

 a remarkable new species of Vaccinium which we had before 

 heard of, and been long anxious to see. The following note 

 affixed to the plant by Professor Rudolph, from whose Herbarium 

 I received it, (there being no specimen of it in the Pallasian col- 

 lection,) contains all that we yet know concerning it : " Vacci- 

 nium prcesta?is. Hocce Vaccinium a nemine hucusque est visum. 

 Crescit in remotissimo deserto, et in unico loco et paucissimis 

 incolis Kamtschatkoe tantummodo noto. Bacca3 perquam grate 

 sapidae sunt. Specimina cum floribus nequisquam, quamvis 100 

 rubelonum pretium oblatum fuit, ausus est colligere/' The fol*- 

 lowing specific character will, I trust, distinguish it from its con- 

 geners. 



VACCINIUM pr;estans. 



Vaccinium caule humile adscendens, foliis magnis obovalibus 

 serrulatis ciliatis venosis, fructu subgloboso amplissimo. ij . 



A sketch from the specimen is annexed, Tab. IX» 



Por the Rumex I here propose the following specific character. 



RUMEX GRAMINIFOLIUS. 



Rumex foliis gramineis laevibus integerrunis : vel lacinulis dua- 

 bus oppositis appendiculatis. 



Tab. X. 

 R. graminifolius. Georgi Besch. Russ. Reichs. p. 921, sine nota. 

 Habitat in Kamtschatk^ ad mare glaciale. Rudolph. In insulis 

 Curilis. Pallas, v . 



The 



