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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



2 lanceolate bracteoles. Leaves obovate, mucronate, entire, 

 downy, and viscid. Ovarium hairy. Corolla bell-shaped, 

 obtuse, longer than the stanaens. Branches round. Leaves 

 Hin. lona;. Calycine segments fringed. (^Don^s Mill.) 

 A low bushy deciduous shrub. New Jersey to Florida, in 

 dry sandy woods, particularly in pine forests. Height 2 ft. 

 to 3 ft. Introduced in 1774'. Flowers white, tinged with 

 pink, rather large ; June and July. Berries black, globulai- ; 

 ripe in November. 



Variety. 



^ Y.d.2 kumile Wats. Dend. Brit. t. 32. The flowers 

 are white ; anthers red ; pedicels solitary, axillary. 



Shrub, 6 in. 



high. 



1164. K. dum6sum. 



^ 12. V. coRVMBO~suM L. The corymhose-^otvo-ed Whortleberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 499. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 853. ; Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 3433. 



Synom/mes. V. araoe^num Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. 2. p. 3.')8. ; V. disomorphum Michx. Fl. Bor. 



Amer. 1. p. 231. ; F. elevitum Hort. ; V. album La7n. Diet. 1. p. 13. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., 1. 123. ; Bot. Kep., t. 138. ; Bot. Mag., t. .3433. ; andour^s. 1165. and 1166. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Flowering branches almost leafless. Racemes corymbose} 

 drooping, with membranous bracteas, which are shorter than the downy 

 flower stalks. Leaves elliptic, acute, minutely serrated, smooth, with downy 

 ribs. (Dun's Mill.) Leaves U in. to 2 in. long, tipped with a glandular 

 point. Racemes rising from the branches of the preceding year, and seldom 

 accompanied by leaves. Bracteas reddish, membranous, and fringed. Caly- 

 cine segments broad and shallow. Corollas white or reddish, cylindrically 

 urceolate, rather angular, and contracted at the mouth. Stamens 10, downy. 

 Anthers enclosed, having a double pouch at the base, but no spurs. This 

 species has a number of varieties, in size, shape, and colour of the leaves, 

 flowers, and fruit. A tall deciduous shrub. Canada to Carolina and 

 Georgia, in swamps and wet woods. Heiijht 4 ft. to 7 ft. Introduced in 

 1765. Flowers white or reddish ; May and June. Berries black, insipid, 

 used in tarts like those of the cranberry ; ripe in October. 



1165 r. corynib6silni. 



1166. K. corymb6suni 



1167. I', c. nrRiltuni. 



Mill. 



y'ai-iclie.':. 



at V. c. 2 viri<dium Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. 2. p. 338., Don's 



3. p. 85i. ; and our fig. 976, The flowers are white, tinged with 



crimson or pale red ; very elegant, and smaller than the species. 



Racemes short, lateral, and terminal. Virginia and Carolina, in 



swamps ; where it grows 2 ft. high. 

 V. c. 3 fuscdtiim Ait. Hort. Kew. I. c. V. formusum Andi: Bot. Rep 



t. 97. ; V. virgatum Wats. Dend. Brit, t, 33., but not of Ait. : and our 



