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PLATE CXII. 



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Bujhy Whortle-herry, 



CLASS 



VIIL 



ORDER 



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UM 



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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala 



Fila- 



menta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- 

 locularis, polyfperma. 



Cup fuperior. Bloflbm of one petal. Threads 

 fixed to the receptacle. A Berry with four 

 cells and many feeds. 

 See Vac. ArctostaphylloSj PI. XXX. Vol.1, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vaccinium foliis ovatis, acutis,_glabrls; floribus 

 folltariis, axillaribus3 pedunculis longiffi- 

 mis, brafteatis) corollis urceolatis fub- 

 albidis^ ftamina decern. 





Whortle- berry with oval^ pointed, fmooth leaves; 

 flowers grow folitary from the foot-ftalk of 

 the leaves, clofe to the ftem} foot-ftalks of 

 the flowers are very long, having floral 

 leaves j bloffoms pitcher - ihaped, nearly 

 white) ten chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower complete. 



2. The Cup and its Foot-flalk, with the floral Leaves. 



3. The Seed-bud, Pointal, and Chives. 



4. The fame^ magnified. 



5. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified. 



This fpecies of Whortle-berry is a neat, compaa, bufliy flirub; and like all the refl: of thofe which 

 have ten chives, and the other parts confonant, can fcarcely be confidered as a hardy plant 3 for 

 although it will live through a mild winter, if planted in a warm and dry fituation, on an openbor- 

 derj yet it will in general be deftroved. bv the fevpr^ frnft^ xTih\oh li^^nnf^n ]^tf» in fnriner. It fhould 



be 



hich 



conamo: 



down. As a hardy green-houfe plant it is bell preferved in a flourifliing ftate, and will flower about 



drawing 



and Kennedy, by whom it was introduced from North America in tlie year 1783. 



