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AUBOKETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III 



a 14. /'. MARIA V NUM Wats, The Maryland Whortleberry. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 1C4. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. 

 S>/nont/»tc. V. maril&ndicum Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 F.ngi -livings. Dend. Brit., 1 124. ; and our/g. 978. 



Spec. Char., Sec. Racemes lateral, numerous, 

 many-flowered. Corolla cylindrical, contracted 

 at the mouth. Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, gla- 

 brous, distinctly and minutely denticulated. 

 Flowers decandrous, white. (Don's Mill., iii. 

 p. 854-.) A native of North America, where 

 it is a shrub growing from 3 ft. to 4 ft. high, and 

 flowering in May and June. It was intro- 

 duced in 1812; and there are plants at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's. 



j* 15. V. grandiflo'rum Wats. The great-flowered Whortleberry. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit., 1. 125. f. a. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. ; Lodd. 



Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit, t. 125. a. ; and out fig. 979., from a plant at Messrs. 



Loddiges. 



Spec. Char.,Sfc. Racemes terminal, 3 — 4-flowered. Corollas 

 cylindrical, contracted at the mouth. Leaves lanceolate, 

 finely serrated, attenuated at both ends, glabrous. Flowers 

 white, decandrous. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 854.) A native 

 of North America, where it forms a shrub, growing lift, 

 high, and flowering in July and August. It was intro- 

 duced in 1812. To us it appears very doubtful, whether 

 this, and the two following sorts, be not varieties of the 

 same form ; and, indeed, we might apply the same remark 

 to various other sorts, which we have given as species. 



Sfe 16. V. elonga v tum Wats. The elongated Whortleberry. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit, 1. 125. b. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t 125. b.; and our fig. 980. 



Spec. Char., Sec. Corymbs few-flowered, bractless. Pedicels 

 downy. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, serrulated, each tipped 

 by a glandular hair, and having a few hairs on the nerves. 

 Branchlets downy. Corollas white, with reflexed teeth. 

 (Don's Mill., iii. p. 854.) A native of North America, where 

 it is a shrub, growing 3 ft. or 4 ft. high, and flowering in July 

 and August. It was introduced in 1812; and there are 

 plants in the London nurseries. 



-« 17. V, minltiflo'rum Wats, The minute-flowered Whortleberry. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit, t 125. a ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t 125. c. ; and our fig. 981. 



Spec Char., Sfc, Racemes terminal, few-flowered. Corollas 

 cylindrical, with erect teeth. Leaves rather coriaceous, 

 bluntly subserrated, each tipped by a gland. Flowers 

 white. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 854.) A native of North 

 America, where it is a shrub, growing to about 1 ft. high, 



980 



id flowering in July and August. Introduced in 1812. 



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18. V. gla'brtjm Wats. The glabrous Whortleberry. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit. t. 125. p. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. ; Lodd. Cat , 

 !.,,■■,,!,,„■ Dend lirit. , t. 125. n. ; and our fig. 982. 



Spec. Char., 8fc, Spikes lateral. Corollas campanulately 

 cylindrical. Leaves elliptic, entire, glabrous. Flowers rose- 

 COloured. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 854. ) A native of North 

 America, flowering in July and August, and introduced in 

 18I>. "A delicate, beautiful, and perfectly smooth plant.*' 

 {Dend. Brit., t. \25.) 



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