VACCINIUM. 



vanicum ; Lamarck Dift. v. i. 74. Michaux Boreal- 

 Amer. v. 1. 232.) — Flowers in denfe feffile tufts. Leaves 

 nearly feffile, ovato-lanceolate, pointed, finely ferrated, 

 fmooth, except the rib and margin. Branches angular, with 

 a downy line at each fide. Calyx in five deep acute feg- 

 ments. — On dry hills on a gravelly foil, from New England 

 to Virginia, flowering in May. A low, very branching 

 Jhrub. Flozvers pale red. Calyx green. Berries large, 

 blueifli-black, extremely fweet and agreeable to eat. The 

 mountains of Pennfylvania produce an immenfe variety 

 of this fpecies, in fize and (hape of the fruit, leaves, and 

 flowers. Purjh. Specimens from the late Rev. Dr. Muh- 

 lenberg, which we cannot but refer to this, have green 

 rather warty branches, diftinguilhed by a fine downy line 

 along each fide. The leaves are an inch long, refembling 

 thofe of fome dwarf Willows, beautifully reticulated, fome- 

 times purplilh ; moft (hining beneath ; their ferratures mi- 

 nute, glandular, downy, as well as the mid-nb. Floivers 

 few, in tufts, from fcaly axillary red iuJs, about the tops 

 of the tranches. Calyx very fmooth. 



21. V. Ardojlaphylos. Oriental Bear-berry, or Whortle- 

 berry. Linn. Sp. PI. 500. Willd. n. 21. (Vitis idaea 

 orientalis maxima, cerafi foho, flore variegato ; Tourn. Cor. 

 42. Voyage v. 2. 98, with a figure.) — Clufters lateral. 

 Brafteas all at the bafe of the partial ftalks. Leaves ellip- 

 tical, acute, minutely ferrated ; hairy beneath. Stamens as 

 long as the bell-lhaped corolla, with very hairy filaments. 

 Calyx flightly five-lobed — Gathered on the coafl: of the 

 Black fea, by Tournefort, two of whofe fpecimens are 

 before us. He defcribes thisjhrui as the height of a man, 

 ■with a trunk as thick as one's arm. The young leafy 

 branches are downy on two oppofite fides, like the fore- 

 going, but more broadly. Footjlalhs extremely fliort and 

 broad, hairy. Leaves pliant, broadly elliptical, tapering 

 at each end, two inches and a half long, and nearly one 

 and a half broad, bright green, fometimes reddifli above, 

 and quite fmooth, except the midrib, on that fide ; paler 

 beneath, and befprinkled with fhort prominent hairs, efpe- 

 cially about the lower part of the rib ; their margin fur- 

 rifiied with copious, but blunt and fliallow, ferratures. 

 Clujlers from the wood of the preceding year, below the 

 frelh leafy (hoots, drooping, one and a half or two inches 

 long, fomewhat hairy, compofed of eight or ten pendulous 

 flowers, of a dirty white, ft^riped or ftained with purple. 

 BraReas feveral at the bafe of each partial flower-ftalk, 

 fringed ; one of them large, ovate, often half an inch, or 

 more, in length ; the reit linear-lanceolate, much fmaller, 

 one or two in number, fcarcely more, being analogous to 

 thofe found about the middle of the partial ftalks, in feveral 

 fpecies already defcribed, though differently fituated in the 

 prefent fpecies and its allies. Calyx with five fhallow, more 

 or lefs evident, marginal fegments, fmooth. Corolla bell- 

 ftiaped, five lines long and four wide, with five Ihallow, 

 recurved, marginal fegments. Filaments ten, nearly half 

 I as long as the corolla, ftout, gibbous, extremely hairy at the 

 '■' back. Anthers longer than the filaments; yellow, fmooth, 

 ; and tubular above, furnifhed with two granulated pouches, 

 ' defcending much below their infertion, at the inner fide of 

 I the filament, and with two fmall dorfal fpurs, at the bafe of 

 1 the tubes above thofe pouches. Style (horter than the 

 ! corolla. The berries were feen by Tournefort in an unripe 

 j ftate only. He judges this plant, with great probability, to 

 I be the a^iL\',T'.c<l}y\oz, or Bear-grape of Galen. 

 ; What the variety /3 of Linnxus may be, we know not, as 

 ' nothin'r anfwerable to his reference is to be found in Tour- 

 nefort's Corollarium. 



22. V. padifalium. Madeira Whortle-berry. (V. Arc- 

 toftaphylus; Ait. n. 16. Curt. Mag. t. 974. Andr. Repof. 

 t. 30. Pallas Roff. v. I. p. 2. 45.) — Clufters lateral. 

 Brafteas all at the bafe of the partial ftalks. Leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, acute, finely ferrated, fmooth on both fides, ex- 

 cept the mid-rib. Stamens nearly as long as the bell-lhaped 

 corolla, with fmooth, flightly fringed, filaments. Calyx 

 five-lobed — Native of the loftieft parts of the ifland of 

 Madeira, where it forms impenetrable thickets, flowering in 

 July, according to Mr. Man"on, who fent a fpecimen to the 

 younger Linnxus in 1777. This fo precifely agrees with 

 Mr. Edwards's figure in Curtis's Magazine, drawn from a 

 plant obtained from mount Caucafus, by Mr. Loddiges, 

 that we cannot doubt its being what Pallas found in the 

 alpine beech forefts of that neighbourhood. The younger 

 Linnsus obtained a fpecimen of the fame, from the EngElh 

 gardens ; and we received one in flower, from the prefent 

 duke of Marlborough's garden, at White Knight's, in 

 June 1806. So far therefore our cultivated plant is iden- 

 tified, nor can any thing be more clearly diftinft from the 

 true V. Ardojlaphylus. The leaves, well compared by Pallas 

 to thofe of the Bird-cherry, are of a more firm rigid texture, 

 and not half fo large as the former ; they are more rounded 

 at the bafe ; their ferratures, though fmall, more evident ; 

 under fiirface quite fmooth, except at the very bafe about 

 the mid-rib, which is alfo a little hairy on the upper fide. 

 Footjlalks longer. Calyx more decidedly five-lobed, though 

 it appears to vary in the depth of its fegments. Corolla 

 larger, pale green, with a purple tinge ; fometimes it feems 

 to be all over purple externally. Partial or internal braSeas 

 rather broader. Germen very glaucous. Thejilaments differ 

 efientially, in being flat, quite fmooth at each fide, and only 

 flightly fringed in the margin, cfpecially about the top. 

 We can difcern no fpurs on the anthers, which moreover are 

 rather fliorter with refpeft to the corolla. The Jlyle is fome- 

 times a little prominent, but not conftantly. Pallas fays 

 the berries are black, juicy, eatable, gratefully acid. Some- 

 times, though very rarely, he found the Jloivers four- 

 cleft. 



23. V. cylindraceum. Azorian Whortle-berry. — Clufters 

 lateral. Brafteas ferrated, all at the bafe of the pai-tial 

 ftalks. Leaves elliptic -lanceolate, acute, finely ferrated, 

 quite fmooth, except the bafe of the mid-rib. Stamens half 

 the length of the cyhndrical corolla, with hairy filaments. 

 Calyx flightly five-lobed. — Native of mountains in the 

 Azores, where this fpecies is called Uva deferra, or Moun- 

 tain Berry. We believe our fpecimen to have been gathered 

 by Mr. Maffon. The Jlem appears to be arborefcent. The 

 branches are ftout, round, thqft only of the prefent year 

 leafy, and finely downy at the two oppofite fides. Leaves 

 hke the laft, but rather larger, more tapering at the bafe, 

 and quite fmooth, except a httle fhort down at the bottom, 

 about the mid-rib and footJlalL Clujlers numerous, on the 

 leaflefs branches of the preceding feafon, under the leafy 

 fiioots of the prefent year, fpreading the length of the leaves, 

 with fmooth, angular, reddifli _/?fl//-J-; and deciduous irac- 

 teas, of which the inner ones are lanceolate and fharply 

 toothed. Flowers drooping, nearly an inch long, apparently- 

 red or purple. Calyx with a dilated border, very flightly 

 and obtufely five-lobed. Corolla twice as long as the laft, 

 cylindrical, with five ereft, (hort, marginal fegments. Sta- 

 mens but half the length of the corolla ; their filaments 

 loofely hairy all over; anthers fliorter than the fi'lnments, 

 deftitute of fpurs. Style rather longer than the corolla. Of 

 the fruit we have no account, nor do we know whctlier this 

 fpecies has ever found its way into the Englifti gardens. 



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