PLATE CXXV. 



VACCINIUM PARVIFLORUM. 



Small flowered JVliortle-berry. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 

 OCTJNDRU MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. 

 Filamenta receptacula inferta. Bacca quadri- 

 locularis, polyfperma. 



See 



Cup fuperior. Elofiom one petal 

 Threads fixed to the receptacle. A berry with 

 four cells, and many feeds. 

 Vaccinium arctostaphyllos, PI. XXX. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vaccinium foliis lanceolatis, undulatis, venofis; 

 rloribus racemofis; pedunculis longillimis, 

 bra&eatisj corolla conica, ftriata. Stamina 

 decern. 



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

 veined leaves; flowersgrowinlong bunches; 

 foot ftalks of the flowers very long, having 

 floral leaves; bloiibm cone -fliaped, and 

 flreaked. Ten Chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. ABloflbm. 



2. The Chives magnified. 



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



This fpecies of Whortle-berry was firft brought, from North America, in the year l^S-l. It is one 

 of thofe with ten chives, &c. and of the fame nature with thofe we have already figured ; for its 

 treatment, and increafe, we mud therefore refer our readers to V. formofum, PI. XCVII. Vol. II. 

 The drawing was taken in May i799, at the Hammerfmith nurfery. 



