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PLATE CXXY 



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VACCINIUM PARVIFLORUM. 



Small flowered JVhor tie-berry. 



CLASS 



YIII 



ORDER 



I 



OCTJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



b T 



Calyx faperus. Corolla mcnopetala. 

 FiLAMENTA rcceptaciila luferta. Bacca quadri- 

 locularis, polyfperma. 



Cup fuperior. Bloffoin one petal 

 Threads fixed to the receptacle. A berry with 

 four cellSj and many feeds. 

 See Vaccinium arctostafhyllos, PL XXX. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



Vaccinuim foliis lanceolatis, undulatis, venofis; 

 flonbus racemofisj pedunculis longilliniis, 

 bradeatisj corolla conica, llriata. Stamina 

 decern. 



Whortle-berry, with lance-fliaped^ waved;, and 

 veined leaves; flowers grow in long bunches; 

 foot ftalks of the flowers very long, having 

 floral leaves; bloflbm cone-fhaped, and 

 ftreaked. Ten Chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



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t; A Bloffom. 



2. 



The Chives magnified. 



3. The Seed-bud, Cup, and. Pointal, the Summit detached, magnified 



with 



Y 



Whortle-berry 



It is one 



treatnaent, and increafe^ we rauft therefore refer our readers to V. formofum, PI. XCVll. 



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