XLII ERICA‘CEE: VACCI’NIUM. 609 
Jig. 1168. — The flowers striped with red and 
white, and the calyx downy. Lower Carolina 
and Georgia, in swamps. ; 
& Vi. c. 4 angustifolium, V. virgitum var. angusti- 
folium Wats. Dend. Brit. t. 34.—The leaves 
narrow, lanceolate, and acuminated at both ends, 
sessile, besprinkled with brown, minute, pedicel- 
late glands beneath, and hairy on the midrib 
above. Flowers almost white. This variety, 
like the preceding ones of V. corymbosum, is 
very handsome, and very distinct; and, in 
British gardens, of easy culture, in sandy peat 
soil, which, however, as in all similar cases, 
must be kept cool, and of an equable degree of 
moisture. 
#13. V. ALBIFLORUM Hook. The white-flowered 
Whortleberry. 
Identification. Hook. in Bot. Mag., 3428. ; Gard. Mag,, vol. 11. p. 475. 
Synonume. V. album Lam. ? 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 3426. ; and our jig. 1169. 
Spec. Char, §c. Leaves oval-lanceolate, obscurely ser- 
rulate, membranous, pilose beneath, with spreading 
hairs, especially on the midrib and primary veins. 1168. ¥.c. fuscatu:n. 
Flower-bearing branches leafless. Racemes a little 
corymbose, directed to one side, drooping, bracteated 
with shortly deciduous bracteas. Calyx spreading, 
with a tendency to be reflexed. Corolla broadly oval. 
Ovary wholly inferior. (Hooker.) A small deciduous 
shrub, with spreading branches. North America. Height 
1 ft. to 2 ft. Introduced ¢ 1820. Flowers white ; May. 
The affinity of this very pretty species is undoubtedly 
with V. corymbésum, but the half-superior ovary of V. 
corymbosum, and the wholly inferior one of V. albiflorum, 
and other points of difference implied in those noticed in 
the specific character above, 
have induced Sir W. J. 
Hooker to think that the 
two are permanently dis- 
1169. Y.albiflxum- tinct, In the Botanic Gar- 
den, Glasgow, it fruits abundantly every year, and 
the fruit 1s very good to eat. 
sx 14. V.marianum Wats. The Maryland 
Whortleberry. 
Idenizfication. Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 124. ; Don’s Mill.,3 p. 854. 
S; Vv. marilandi Lodd. 
“Cat. ed. 1836, 4 cack 
Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 124. ; an 
our fig. 1170. 
1170. VY. maridnum. 
Spec. Char., §c. Racemes lateral, numerous, many-flow- 
ered. Corolla cylindrical, contracted at the mouth. 
Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, distinctly and 
minutely denticulated. Flowers decandrous. (Don’s 
Mill.) A low deciduous shrub. North America. Height 
3 ft. to4ft. Introd. 1812. Flowers white; May and 
June. 
« 15. V. GRANDIFLO'RUM Wats. The great-flowered 
Whortleberry. 
1171, ¥.grandiflorum, Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit.,t. 125. f. 4.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 854 
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