PLATE CV. 



VACCINIUM CRASSIFOLIUM. 



Thick-leaved Whortle- berry. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 

 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx fupems. Corolla monopetala. Fila- 

 menta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- 

 locularis, polyfperma. 



Cup fuperior. Bloflbrn of one petal. Threads 

 fixed to the receptacle. A berry with four 

 cells, and many feeds. 

 See Vol. I. PI. XXX. Vaccinium Arctosta- 



PHYLLUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vaccinium foliis ovatis, ferratis, rigidis. craffi- 

 ufculis; floribus fub-umbellatis, terminali- 

 bus; calycibus adpreffis; corollis campanu- 

 latis; flamina decern. 



Whortle-berry with oval leaves fawed at the 

 edges, ftifF, and thickifh; flowers grow 

 nearly in umbels, at the end of the 

 branches; cups preffed to the bloflbrn; 

 bloffoms bell-fhaped ; ten chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . Cup and Seed-bud, natural fize. 



2. A Bloffbm cut open. 



3. The Chives and Seed-bud, the leaflets of the cup cut off, magnified. 



4. The Pointal, magnified. 



This fpecies of Whortle-berry was introduced from Carolina, about the year 1/94, by Mr. J. Frafer, 

 nurferyman. It is another of thofe with ten chives, five cells in the berry, and five fegments in the 

 borders of the cup and bloflbrn. It is an evergreen, and will live through a mild winter, on a warm 

 border; but cannot refill the cold of a fevere one, though a fmall degree of protection is fufficient for 

 its prefervation. As a greenhoufe plant, it is very decorative, flowering about June; in which month 

 this year our drawing was made, at the Hammerfmith nurfery, from a plant in that colleftion. The 

 pabulum beft calculated to preferve it in a flourifhing ftate, is a mixture compofed of fandy peat two 

 parts, and light loam one part. To propagate it, the younger branches fliould be laid down about 

 the end of May, and they will be rooted by the enfuing fpring. 



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