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AKBOKETUM AND FKUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



V. inoii/aiium Pohl is a diffuse shrub, a native of Brazil, in dry places, with leaves 8 lines long, 

 and 4 broad. 



V. cZreum Font is a small shrub, 6 in. high, a native of Otaheiteand Owyhee. 



V. rct:\-ulC;tn»i Smith is a native of the Sandwich Islands, on the high mountains, where it was 

 collected by Mr. Memies. Leaves 1 in. long, with revolute margins. 



V. pendutyldrttm Gaud, is an erect glabrous shrub, a native of the Sandwich Islands, at the alti- 

 tude of 500 hexapodes, 



V. micropkytlum Herb. Reinwdt is a shrub, a native of the Celebes, on the mountains. 



V. dentaturm Smith is a native of the Sandwich Islands, on lofty mountains, where it was dis- 

 covered by Mr. Menzies. 



V. empctri folium II. II et Kunth is a creeping shrub, a native of the western declivity of the 

 burning mountain Aritisana, between Pintoc and Pinantura. 



V. pmcoldes, V. acuminatum, and V. ulatcrndldcs H. B. et Kunth, are South American species, 

 of which very little is known. 



Genus XXVII. 



OXYCO'CCUS P<?>\s. The Cranberry. Lin. Syst. Octandria Monogynia. 



1. p. 419. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 263. ; Nutt. Gen. Araer., 1. p. 250. ; 



Identification. Pers. Syn 



Don's MilL, 3. p. 857. 

 Synonymc. /'acefnium sp. of Lin. and others. 

 Derivation. From oxus, sharp, and kokkos, a berry 



berries. 



in reference to the sharp acid taste of the 



Description. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla 4-parted, with nearly linear, revo- 

 lute segments. Stamens 8, with connivent filaments. Anthers tubular, 

 2-parted. Berries many-seeded. — Small, prostrate, trailing, evergreen shrubs, 

 with small leaves, growing in boggy morasses, often among living masses of 

 Sphagnum. Branches filiform, proliferous. Flowers produced at the base 

 of the spring branchlets, in short gemmaceous racemes. Pedicels filiform, 

 conspicuously bibracteate. Berries red, rarely white, acid. (Don's Mill., Ui. 

 p. 858.) Natives of Britain and North America. 



*~- 1. O. palu'stris Pers. The marsh, or common, Cranberry. 



Identification. Pers. Ench., 1. p. 419. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 858. 



Synonymcs. O. vulgaris Pursh Ft. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 263., O. europae'us Nutt. Gen. Amer., I. p. 251. ; 



V accinium Oxycoccus Lin. Sp., 500., Smith Eng. Bot., t. 319. ; (Ed. Fl. Dan., t. 80. ; Facciniurr 



Oxycoccus var. a, ovalifblius Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 228. ; Faccinia palustris Ger. Emac, 1419. 



I.ob. Icon., 2. t. 109. ; Oxycoccum Cord. Hist., 140. 2. f. 1. ; Mossberries, Moorberries, Fenberries, 



Marshworts, or Whortleberries, Cornberries, Eng. ; Airelle canneberge, Fr. ; gemeine Moose- 



beere, Ger. 

 Derivation. The name of Cranberry is supposed to be given from the peduncles of the flowers being 



crooked at the top, and, before the expansion of the flowers, resembling the head and neck of a 



crane {Smith and Withering) ; or because thev are much eaten by cranes. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 319. ; CEd. Fl. Dan., t. 80. ; Lob. Icon., 2. t. 109. ; and our fig. 992. 



Spec. Cliar. y §c. Stems filiform, trailing. Leaves small, ovate, entire, acute, 

 smooth, with revolute margins. Pedicels terminal, 1-flowered, of a delicate 

 pink or rose colour. Segments of corolla 

 oval. Leaves convex, and dark shining 

 green above, and glaucous beneath. Stems 

 reddish. Pedicels few together, about the 

 tops of the branches, red, slightly hoary. 

 Corolla pink, with reflexed oblong seg- 

 ments. Stamens with purple downy fila- 992 

 ments, and yellow anthers. Berries pear- 

 shaped, globular, often spotted, crimson, 

 of a peculiar flavour, with a strong acidity, py 

 grateful. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 858.) A low, 

 trailing, snbevergreen shrub; seldom rising 

 higher than .'4 in. or 4 in. ; flowering in May and June, and ripening its fruit in 

 August and September. It is a native of turfy mossy bogs in the mountainous 

 parts of Europe ; common in Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, and the 

 north of England! as well as in the east, as in Lincolnshire and the neighbour- 

 ing part of Norfolk. Pursh speaks of it as common on the boggy mountains of 

 North America, from Canada to Pennsylvania, and in the Island ofOonalashka, 



