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VACCINIUM $amoenum. 
Broad-leaved W hortle-herry. 
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OCTANDRIA (DECANDRIA. Pursh.) MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. Ertcm. Jussieu gen. 159. Div. If. Germen inferum aut 
semiinferum. 
Ericem. Brown prod. 1. 557. 
VACCINIUM. Supra vol. 4. yol. 302. 
Div. Foliis deciduis. ° 
V. ameenum, racemis bracteatis, corollis subcylindraceis, foliis ellipticis . 
subserrulatis deciduis: venis subtis villosiusculis. Hort. Kew.2.12. 
Vaccinium amoenum. Willd. s. pl. 2. 353. Andrews’s reposit. 188. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 2. 358. Pursi amer. sept. 1. 287. 
Vaccinium disomorphum; var.? Michaux bor. amer. 1.232. 
_ Frutex: rami glabri, teretes; ramuli villosiusculi, parim compressi. Fol. 
alterna, subpetiolata, lato-elliptica, acuta, supra hy eit subtis circa 
venas villosiuscula, tenuissimé subserrulata, sesquiuncialia: petioli brevissimi, 
_ villosiusculi, Racemi in ullimis ramis plures, alterni, simplices, patentes, 
foliis duplo breviores, sessiles, secundi, multiflori: pedicelli villostusculi, tri- 
vel quadrilineares: bractex oblonge, acute, glaberrime, plerimque incar- 
nate; unica in rachi communi ad exortum singult pedunculi nartialis, 2 v. 3 
lineas longa, ovata, concava; dus opposice in pedunculo partiali pauld supra 
basin, patentes, reliquis pauld breviores. Cal. monophyllus, 5-jidus, glaberri- 
mus, sordidé rubescens, sesquilinearis: lacinie ovate, laic, obtusiuscule. 
Cor. extis ex albo rubicunda, monopetala, subcylindrica, pariim ventricosa, 
calyce 4plo longior, ore 5-fido: lacinie ovate obtusiuscule. Fil. 10, margint 
receptaculi levitér affixa, subulata, plana, erecta, villosiuscula, calyce pauld 
longiora: anth. lanceolato-subulate, erect, bicornes, corolla nauld breviores, 
flava. Germen inferum, depressum. Stylus filiformis, corolla paulo longior. 
Stigma obtusum. Solander in sched. banks. 
Native of North America; where it is said by Mr. Pursh 
to grow in, low grounds and swamps, from New Jersey to 
Virginia; forming a tall red-twigged shrub, having large 
white flowers, with a red tinge; black insipid berries; and 
varying much in size, shape, and colour. Introduced by 
Mr. John Cree, in 1765. 
The drawing was taken in Mr. Lee’s nursery at Ham- 
mersmith; where the plant is cultivated in a sheltered bor- 
der of peat-earth, along with other hardy american shrubs. 
-'The well-known Cranberry belongs to the same generic 
group. 
Branches smooth, round; branchlets somewhat villous, 
slightly compressed. Leaves alternate, subpetiolate, broadly 
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