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the mouth. Stamens 10, downy. Anthers enclosed, having a double 
pouch at the base, but no spurs. Berries black, insipid. This species has 
a number of varieties,in size, shape, and colour of the 
leaves, flowers, and fruit. It is a native of North 
America, from Canada to Carolina and Georgia, in 
swamps and wet woods, where it grows from 4 ft. to 
7 ft. high, and flowers in Mayand June. __ It was intro- 
duced in 1765, and is frequent in collections. In the 
Duc d’Aremberg’s garden at Enghien, it is culiivated 
in the peat border, for its fruit, which is used like 
that of the cranberry. (Neill’s Hort. Tour, p. 322.) 
Varieties. 
% V.c. 2 virgitum Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 2. p. 358., Don’s 
Mill., 3. p. 854. ; and our fig. 976.—The dowers are white, tinged 
with crimson or pale red ; very elegant, and smaller than the 
species. Racemes short, lateral and terminal. A shrub, a 
native of Virginia and Carolina, in swamps, where it grows 
2ft. high. 
% V.c.3 fuscatum Ait. Hort. Kew., i. c., Pursh, Hooker ; V. for- 
mdsum Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 97., Bot. Reg., t.302.; V. virgatum 
Wats. Dend. Brit., t.33., but not of Ait.; and our fig. 977. ; has 
the flowers striped with red and white, and the calyx downy. 
It is a native of Lower Carolina and Georgia, in swamps. 
x V.c. 4 angustifilium, V. virgatum var. angustifolium Wats. Dend. 
Brit., t. 34., has the leaves narrow, lanceolate, and acuminated 
at both ends, sessile, besprinkled with brown, minute, pedicel- 
late glands beneath, and hairy on the midrib above. Flowers 
almost white. This variety, like the preceding ones of V. corym- 
bdsum, is very handsome, and very distinct; and, in British 
gardens, of easy culture, in sandy peat soil, which, however, 
as in all similar cases, must be kept cool, and of an equable degree of moisture. 
gz 13. V. atBirLo‘RuM Hook, The white-flowered Whortleberry. 
Identification. Hook. in Bot. Mag., 3428,; Gard. Mag., vol. 11. p. 475. 
Synonyme. V. album Lam. ? 
Engraving. Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 3428. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oval-lanceolate, obscurely serrulate, membranous, 
pilose beneath, with spreading hairs, especially on the midrib and primary 
veins. Flower-bearing branches leafless. Racemes a little corymbose, 
directed to one side, drooping, bracteated with shortly deciduous bracteas. 
Calyx spreading, with a tendency to be reflexed. Corolla broadly oval. 
Ovary wholly inferior. (Hooker in Bot. Mag., t. 3428.) The affinity of 
“this very pretty species is undoubtedly with 7. corymbosum of Linnzus 
and American authors ;”’ but the half-superior ovary of V. corymbdosum, 
and the wholly inferior one of V. albiflorum, and other points of difference 
implied in those noticed in the specific character above, have induced Dr. 
Hooker “to think that the two are permanently distinct.” V. albiflorum 
has been received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from North America, 
and it flowers in May. It is “a small shrub, with spreading branches.” 
(Bot. Mag., t. 3428.) 

