PLATE CXIL 



VACCINIUM DUMOSUM. 



BuJIiy Whortle-berry. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER 1. 

 OCTJNDRIA MONOGYNIJ. 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. Akctostafhyllos, PI. XXX. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vaccinium foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris; floribus 

 iblitariis, axillaribus; pedunculis longifli- 

 mis, bra&eatis; 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; bloflbms pitcher- fhaped, nearly 

 white; ten chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Flower complete. 



2. The Cup and its Foot-ftalk, 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, compaft, bufhy flirub; and like all the relt of thole which 

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

 although it will live through a mild winter, if planted in a warm and dry Situation, on an open bor- 

 der; yet it will in general be deftroyed, by the fevere frofts which happen late in fpring. It fliould 

 be planted in fandy peat earth, with a fmall portion of light loam; may be propagated by layers, which 

 do not commonly root, fufriciently to be taken off", under two years from the time of their being put 

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

 the month of June; in which month, this year, our drawing was made, at the nurfery of Meflrs. Lee 

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



