VACCINIUM 



623 



wide; very shortly stalked, mostly pointed, minutely and sparsely glandular- 

 toothed, the margins slightly recurved; of leathery texture, smooth and of 

 a very glossy dark green above, slightly downy beneath. Flowers produced 

 during July and August singly in the axils of the leaves or in the axils of 

 bracts on terminal racemes I to 2 ins. long, each on a slender stalk j to f in. 

 long, with two minute bracts about the middle. Corolla white, bell-shaped, 

 j in. long, five-lobed, the lobes reflexed. Calyx small, the five lobes 

 triangular. Fruit in. wide, black, roundish. The flower is jointed to the 

 stalk. 



Native of the south and east United Spates, as far north as N. Carolina; 

 introduced to Kew by Mr John Cree in 1765. In the British Isles it is a 

 deciduous shrub, said by Loudon in. 1837 to have been 10 ft. high in the 

 walled garden at White Knights. It is quite hardy at Kew, pretty and free- 

 flowering, but slow in growth. The form in cultivation is, no doubt, from 

 the northern limits of its distribution, but the evergreen tree form ought to 

 be tried in the mildest counties. 



VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



V. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Linnaus. CAUCASIAN WHORTLEBERRY. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 974.) 



A deciduous shrub, probably 10 ft. high ultimately; young wood smooth 

 or slightly downy. Leaves ovate-oblong, pointed, finely toothed; i to 

 4 ins. long, | to \l ins. wide; dark dull green and downy on the veins 

 above, paler and more downy beneath; stalk ^ in. long. Flowers produced 

 during June, each in the axil of a bract on slightly downy racemes I to 2 ins. 

 long from the previous year's wood; corolla greenish white tinged with 

 purple, bell-shaped, ^ in. long and wide; stamens ten, hairy; calyx with five 

 shallow triangular lobes. The flower is distinctly jointed to the stalk just 

 below the ovary. Berry globose, purple, ]- to ^ in. across. 



