XLIII. 



FACCI'NIUM. 



609 



fig. 1 168. The flowers striped with red and 

 white, and the calyx downy. Lower Carolina 

 and Georgia, in swamps. 



ft V. c. 4 angustifoliuin, V. virgatum var. angusti- 

 folium Wats. Dcnd. Brit. t. 34. The loaves 

 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. corymbosum, 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. 



M 13. V. ALBIFLO^RUM Hook. The white-flowered 

 Whortleberry. 



Identification. Hook, in Bot. Mag., 3428. ; Card. Mag., vol. 11. p. 475. 



Synonyme. V. album Lam. ? 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 3428. ; and our fig. 1169. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves oval-lanceolate, obscurely ser- 

 rulate, membranous, pilose beneath, with spreading * 

 hairs, especially on the midrib and primary veins. nes. v. c. fus<&tu:n. 

 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.} A small deciduous 

 shrub, with spreading branches. North America. Height 

 1 ft. to 2ft. Introduced ? 1820. Flowers white ; May. 



The affinity of this very pretty species is undoubtedly 



with V. corymbosum, but the half-superior ovary of V. 



corymbosum, and the wholly inferior one of V. albiflorum, 



and other points of difference implied in those noticed in 



the specific character above, 



have induced Sir W. J. 



Hooker to think that the 



two are permanently dis- 



tinct. In the Botanic Gar- 

 den, Glasgow, it fruits abundantly every year, and 

 the fruit is very good to eat. 



j 14. V. MARIA'NUM Wats. The Maryland 

 Whortleberry. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit, 1. 124. ; Don's Mill., 3 p. 854. 

 Synonyme. V. marilandicum Lodd. 



Cat. ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 124. ; and 



our fig. 1170. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Racemes lateral, numerous, many-flow- 

 ered. Corolla cylindrical, contracted at the mouth. 

 Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, distinctly and 

 minutely denticulated. Flowers decandrous. (Don's 

 Mill.) A low deciduous shrub. North America. Height 

 3ft. to 4 ft. Introd. 1812. Flowers white; May and 

 June. 



j 15. V. GRANDIFLO'RUM Wats. The great-flowered 

 ^^ Whortleberry. 



1171 V. granclifl6rum. Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit.,t. 125. f. A. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. 



R R 



1169. V. albifl&rum. 



1170. F.marttnum. 



