PLATE CCLXIII. 



VACCINIUM STAMINIUM. 



Green-wooded Whortle-herry. 



CLASS VIIL ORDER I. 

 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eioht Cliives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx fupcrns. Corolla monopetala. Fila- 

 menta receptatulo inferta. Bacca qiiadri- 

 locularis, polyfperma. 



Cup fuperior. Bloffom of one petal. Threads 

 fixed to the receptacle. A berry with four 

 cells and many feeds. 

 SeeVAcciNiuM AUcrosTAPHyLLos.Vol. I. PI. XXX. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vaccininm foliis oblongo-ovatis, acutis, integer- 

 rimis, I'ubtus fubglaucis; pedanculls nudis; 

 antherisexfertis; floribusfolitariis; ftamina 

 decern. 



Whortle berry with oblong-oval leaves, pointed, 

 quite entire, and rather fea-green under- 

 neath ; fruit-ftalks naked; tips without the 

 blolfom ; flowers folitary ; ten chives. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Flower complete. 



2. The Chives and Pointal. 



3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, magnified. 



The fpecies here figured of Whortle. berry, according to the Kew catalogue, was introduced, firft, from 

 North America, to us, by Mr. William Young, in the year 1/70. It is a hardy, deciduous ihrub; 

 "rows to the height of three feet; very bufliy, with the flowers but thinly fcattered over it; they are 

 white, and deeply cut in the border, which is rather inclined to fpread. It is increafed by layers; 

 the berries feldom ripening in England. A light, fandy peat foil, with a fmall portion of loam, is the 

 fitteft for its growth ; and it acquires a higher degree of beauty, when (heltered from the fcorching rays 

 of the fun, in fummer. Our figure was taken in June, 1801, at the nurfery of Meflrs Lee and Ken- 

 nedy, from a plant which had been imported in February^ the fame year, from Pcnnfylvania, North 

 America. 



