PLATE XCYII. 



VACCINIUM FORMOSUM, 



Red-twigged Whortle-herry, 



CLASS 



VIIL 



ORDER 



I 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Eight Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTEE. 



Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Fila- 

 meata receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- 

 locularis, polyfperma. 





Cup fuperior. BlolTom of one petaL Threads 

 fixed to the receptacle. A berry with four 

 cells, and many feeds. 



See Vol. I. PL XXX. Vaccinium Arctosta- 



PHYLLUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vaccinium racemispedicellifque braftcatisj foliis 

 integerrimis, oblongis, acutis, glabris} caly- 

 cibu3 adpreffisj corollis fub-cylindraceis, 



' coftatisj ftigma fub-exfertaj ilamina de- 



cern. 



Whortle-berry with floral leaves on the branch 

 part of the bunch, as well as on the partial 

 foot-ftalks; leaves quite intire, oblong, 

 pointed, and fmooth; cups preffed to the 

 bloffom; bloffoms nearly cylindrical, and 

 ribbed 5 fummit jufl without the bloffom} 

 ten chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Bloffom and Cup. 



2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 



3. The Seed-bud a little advanced, with the Cup upon it. 

 A. A nearly ripe Berry, cut tranfverfely, magnified. 



FaoM the number of different new and old known ipecies, of this genus, which we have been enabled 

 to examine this fpringj and of which drawings have been made, (a figure from one of them being 

 intended to be given in each fucceffive No. till they are finifliedj) we are more fully confirmed, in 

 what was alferted in a former part of the work, that V. Araoftaphyllus, with the greater part of thofe 

 plants, now known as Vr.cciniums, Ihould be placed in Decandria. It is true, a certain latitude has 

 been given by Linnceus, in an obfer\^ntion on the genus, by allowing, that a fourth in addition to the 

 ufual number is frequently found, in the different pai ts of the flower. Bat when fo effential a part of 

 the fruaification is, with a very few exceptions, conftant through a numerous genus, we cannot but 

 tliink, in a fyftcm, founded chiefly on that bafis, that in fuch cafe, the mere charader of the fhiit ihould 

 give way to firft principles; and that thofe with ten chives fhould be placed 'to Andromeda. Or, if the- 

 diftinaion of a dry, from a moift capfule, fliould be thought of fufficient weight, on which 

 new genus, thofe fpecies, with ten chives, and berries, might be fo arranged. Indeed, the difference 

 in the general habit, ©f thofe with ten, from thofe with eight chives, would well warrant fuch an 

 alteration. But fuch a change we have declined making, upon the grounds we have, and are deter- 

 mined lopurfue; not to alter any eftablifhed name, if even a little erroneousj but only to point out 

 the error, or the apparent neceffary alteration. 



This fpecies of WhorUe-berry was firft introduced, (according to the Kew Catalogue,) in 17/0, by 

 Mr. William Young, from N. America; and is confequently hardy enough to bear the fcverity of our 



It fhould be planted in fandy peat earth, on a dry, fheltered border. It is propa- 

 gated by L^ ..., which fhould be put dow-n in fpring, and taken off the fuccecding fummer. The leaves 

 of tliis fpecies are deciduous, when planted in the open ground; but, if kept in the greenhoufe, where 



to form a 



common wmters. 



it will be Lund very ornamental, it becomes an evergreen. Our figure was made at the nurfer):. 

 Hammerfinith, in May this year. 



