Volume 2 — PLATE CXXV. VACCINIUM PARVIFLORUM. Small flowered Whortle-berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx superus. Corolla monopetala.

Filamenta receptacula inserta. Bacca quadrilocularis, polysperma.

Cup superior. Blossom one petal.

Threads fixed to the receptacle. A berry with four cells, and many seeds.

See Vaccinium arctostaphyllos, Pl. XXX. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Vaccinium foliis lanceolatis, undulatis, venosis; floribus racemosis; pedunculis longissimis, bracteatis; corolla conica, striata. Stamina decem.

Whortle-berry, with lance-shaped, waved, and veined leaves; flowers grow in long bunches; foot stalks of the flowers very long, having floral leaves; blossom cone-shaped, and streaked. Ten Chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Blossom. 2. The Chives magnified. 3. The Seed-bud, Cup, and Pointal, the Summit detached, magnified.

This species of Whortle-berry was first brought, from North America, in the year 1784. It is one of those with ten chives, &c. and of the same nature with those we have already figured; for its treatment, and increase, we must therefore refer our readers to V. formosum, Pl. XCVII. Vol. II. The drawing was taken in May 1799, at the Hammersmith nursery.

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