VACCINIUM 627 



with pink, hairy; calyx-lobes pointed, and like the flower-stalks, very hairy. 

 Berries in. in diameter, nearly globular, blue-black covered with gland- 

 tipped hairs. 



Native of the mountains of N. Carolina and southwards, discovered by 

 Mr Buckley about 1836, but lost sight of until rediscovered and brought 

 into cultivation by Prof. Sargent in 1887. Given a position that is moist 

 and not too sunny, it spreads rapidly by underground suckers. It is 

 rendered very distinct by the hairiness of all its parts, more especially of 

 its fruits, which have a sweet, pleasant, but not very pronounced flavour. 



V. INTERMEDIUM, Ruthe. 



A natural hybrid between V. Myrtillus and V. Vitis-Idaea which has been 

 found wild on the continent of Europe, and in Staffordshire in England. 

 It is fairly intermediate between its parents, but resembles V. Myrtillus 

 more closely in habit. The stems are not so markedly angular as in that 

 species, and it inherits from V. Vitis-Idsea an evergreen or almost evergreen 

 character. The leaf-margins are toothed, but the under-surface is not 

 dotted. Berry dark violet. It was originally discovered in this country in 

 Maer Woods, Staffordshire, by Mr Robert Garner, in 1870; and in 1886 by 

 Prof. Bonney on Cannock Chase. 



V. MEMBRANACEUM, Douglas. 

 (V. myrtilloides, Hooker, not of Michaux.} 



A deciduous shrub from I to 5 ft. high, erect-growing; branchlets angular, 

 smooth. Leaves ovate to oblong, pointed, rounded or tapered at the base, 

 minutely toothed; f to 2^ ins. long, A to I in. wide; bright green and smooth 

 on both surfaces; stalk T \ in. or less long. Flowers solitary in the leaf-axils 

 on stalks j to ^ in. long. Corolla between globose and .urn-shaped, j in. 

 across, greenish or pinkish white; calyx entire. Berries J to ^ in. diameter, 

 purplish black, sweet, but rather acid. 



Native of N. America from Lake Superior west to California, and north 

 to Alaska, discovered by Douglas about 1828. It is allied to V. Myrtillus 

 in its angled branchlets and solitary nodding flowers. Of little garden value. 



V. MORTINIA, Bentham. MORTINA. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 6872 ; V. coccineum, Hort.) 



An evergreen shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, the young shoots covered with a dark 

 minute down. Leaves densely set on the twigs (about in. apart), ovate, 

 minutely toothed, ^ to in. long, very uniform; dark green above and 

 smooth except for a little dark down on the midrib; paler and minutely 

 pitted beneath with a 'tiny bristle in each cavity; stalk downy, ^ in. long. 

 Flowers produced during June in short, dense racemes from the leaf-axils, 

 and on the lower side of the twigs. Corolla rosy pink, cylindrical, about 

 in. long; stamens hairy; calyx with five triangular lobes; flower-stalks 

 downy. Berry red, in. diameter. 



Native of Ecuador, on the slopes of Mount Pinchincha; introduced by 

 Hartweg about 1840. It is not hardy at Kew, surviving the mildest winters 

 only, but farther south, as at Leonardslee, near Horsham, it succeeds 

 admirably. It is a particularly neat and pleasing shrub, although its flowers, 

 as they grow, are hidden by the foliage. It is of peculiar interest also as 

 affording one of very few instances of a shrub found wild within a few miles 



