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at 19. V. frondo'sum L. The frondose Whortleberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp.,499. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Synonymes. V. glaucum Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 231. ; Blue Tangles, Amer. 

 Engraving. Andr. Bot. Rep., 1. 140. 



Spec. Char., Sj-c. Racemes loose. Bracteas obovate, not half so long as the 

 slender pedicels, which bear 2 small linear bracteoles in the middle. Leaves 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, smooth. Flowers small, almost globular, 

 and white. Berries large, blue, globular, eatable; called by the country 

 people in America, blue tangles. Branchlets frondose (that is, abounding 

 in leaves), terete, smooth, and slender. Leaves 2 in. or 3 in. long, glaucous 

 beneath, and sprinkled with minute resinous dots. Racemes lateral, from 

 the former year's wood. Flowers drooping, greenish white, and shaped 

 like those of the lily of the valley, but smaller. Anthers not prominent. 

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

 to Carolina, in open woods, where it is a shrub growing 3 ft. high, 

 and flowering in May and June. Introduced in 1761, and frequent in 

 British collections. 



Variety. 



at V '. /. 2 venustum Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. ii. p. 357.; V. frondo- 



sum var. /3 lanceolatum Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 786. — The 

 leaves are lanceolate, and acute at both ends. 



jet 20. V. resino^sum Ait. The resinous Whortleberry. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 2. p. 357. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Synonyme. Andromeda baccata Wangh. Amer., t. 30. f. 69. 

 Engravings. Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 1288. ; and our fig. 983. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Racemes leafless, viscid, downy, with lanceolate bracteoles 

 on the pedicels. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, bluntish, entire, covered with 

 resinous dots. Calyx in 5 deep ovate segments, ^ 9^3 



longer than the ovarium. Branches round, and 

 downy when young. Leaves usually 1± in. long, 

 bright green on both sides, and rather viscid. 

 Racemes lateral, upon last year's wood, and 

 drooping. Flowers greenish yellow. Berries 

 black, eatable. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 854.) A 

 native of North America, from Canada to Ca- 

 rolina, where it is common in woods and on 

 mountains, forming a shrub growing 2 ft. high, and flowering in May and 

 June. Introduced in 1782, and frequent in collections. 



Varieties. 



jck V. r. 2 rubescens Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 286., Curt. Bot. Mag., 



t. 1288., has the corollas reddish. 

 jot V. r. 3 lutescens Pursh, 1. c. ; V. parviflorum Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 125. ; 



has the leaves lanceolate, and the flowers reddish yellow. 



sfc 21. V. ^rctosta'phylos L. The Bear's Grape Whortleberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 500. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 854. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 984., from the plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Racemes lateral. Bracteas all at the base of the pedicels. 

 Leaves elliptic, acute, minutely serrated, hairy beneath. Stamens as long 

 as the corolla, which is bell-shaped, with very hairy filaments. Calyx 

 slightly 5-lobed. Young branches downy on both sides. Leaves 2± in. 

 long. Racemes from the wood of the preceding year, below the fresh leafy 

 shoots, drooping, rather hairy; each composed of 8 — 10 pendulous flowers, 

 of a dirty white colour, tinged with purple. Anthers spurred at the base. 

 Corollas bell-shaped, hairy. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 854.) A native of the coast 

 of the Black Sea, where it was gathered by Tournefort, who describes it as 

 a shrub about the height of a man, with a trunk as thick as a man's arm. It 

 usually grows 8 ft. or 10 ft. high in British gardens, and flowers from April 



