PLATE CXXXVIII. 



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VACCINIUM AMOENUM. 



Broad-leaved Wlior tie-berry. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eisht Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx superus. Corolla monopetala. 

 Filamenta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- 

 locularis, polyfperma. 



Cup fuperior. Bloffom one petal. 



Threads fixed into the receptacle. A Berry 



with four cells and many feeds. 

 See Vac. arctostaphyllos, PI. XXX. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vaccinium foliis utrinque acuminatis, fubfer- 

 rulatis, deciduis; floribus racemofis, pedun- 

 culis bracfeatis, calycibus refiexis, corollis 

 evlindraceis. Stamina decern. 



Whortle-berry with leaves tapering to both ends, 

 a little fawed at the edges and falling off; 

 flowers grow in long bunches, foot-ftalks 

 with floral leaves, cups reflexed, bloffoms 

 cylinder-fhaped. Ten Chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Flower complete. 



2. The Empalement, with the floral leaves. 



3. The Chives, magnified. 



4. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified. 



5. A nearly ripe Berry. 



6. The fame, cut tranfverfely, magnified. 



This very handfome fpecies of Whortleberry was introduced, from North America, in the year l~65, 

 by Mr. John Cree, Nurferyman, of Addleftone, amongft many others. It is a hardy plant, in our 

 climate. This fpecies inclines to a loamy, rather than a peat foil, and is propagated by fuckers, which 

 it throws up from the root, or from layers; which may be put down in May, and taken off the 

 fucceeding year. Its time of flowering is about June or July, in which latter month our drawing was 

 made laft year, at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Hammerfmith. 



