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VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLLUS. 
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‘CLASS VHE ORDER *1 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
‘Catyx. Perianthium minimum, fuperum, per- EmrPatemMent. Cup very fmall, above, and per- 
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= Corouta. Monopetala, campanulata, quadri- Biossom. One petal, bell-fhaped, four-cleft; 
au ; laciniis revolutis. fegments rolled back. 
Stamina. Filamenta otto, fimplicia. Antheraz Curves. Eight threads, fimple. Tips with two 
___ bicornes, dorfo ariftis duabus patentibus horns, and furnifhed with two fpreading 
inftruéte, apice dehifcentes. | awns at the back, opening at the points. 
_ Pisrittum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, | Poinraz. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, 
= ftaminibus longior. Stigma obtufum. longer than the chives. Summit blunt. 
Pericarpium. Bacca globofa, umbilicata, qua- | Sgrep-vessex, A globular berry, with a hollow 
*  drilocularis. 
dimple, and four cells. 
SeMINa pauca, parva, Szeps few, and fmall. 
“oe SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
_ Vaccinium, floribus racemofis; foliis crenulatis, Whortle-berry, with flowers growing in bunches; 
ovatis, acutis; caule arboreo. leaves flightly fcollopped, egg-fhaped, and 
pointed; ftem woody. 
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. 3 REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement, Pointal, and Chives; the bloffom removed. 
2. A Chive (magnified). 
= 3. The Shaft, and its Summit (magnified). 
“a 4. A ripe Berry (natural fize). 
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Si... tata : | _F.M 1786. The winters 10 
_ common of this climate are too fevere for it, therefore fhould be protected, although it will furvive — 
_ amild one: it is beft preferved in a pot, and kept as a greenhoufe plant, where it is very ornamenia';— 
i flowering about the months of July and Auguft; thriving beft in light mould, or peat; and is Pro 
= pagated by cuttings, or the feed, which it produces in abundance, ee 
