Part 112

CALYX superus. Corolla monopetala.

FILAMENTA receptaculo inserta. Bacca quadrilocularis, polysperma.

CUP superior. Blossom one petal.

THREADS fixed into the receptacle. A Berry with four cells and many seeds.

See VAC. ARCTOSTAPHYLLOS, Pl. XXX. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Vaccinium foliis utrinque acuminatis, subserrulatis, deciduis; floribus racemosis, pedunculis bracteatis, calycibus reflexis, corollis cylindraceis. Stamina decem.

Whortle-berry with leaves tapering to both ends, a little sawed at the edges and falling off; flowers grow in long bunches, foot-stalks with floral leaves, cups reflexed, blossoms cylinder-shaped. Ten Chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower complete. 2. The Empalement, with the floral leaves. 3. The Chives, magnified. 4. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified. 5. A nearly ripe Berry. 6. The same, cut transversely, magnified.

This very handsome species of Whortleberry was introduced, from North America, in the year 1765, by Mr. John Cree, Nurseryman, of Addlestone, amongst many others. It is a hardy plant, in our climate. This species inclines to a loamy, rather than a peat soil, and is propagated by suckers, which it throws up from the root, or from layers; which may be put down in May, and taken off the succeeding year. Its time of flowering is about June or July, in which latter month our drawing was made last year, at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy’s, Hammersmith.

PLATE CXXXIX.

STRUTHIOLA CILIATA. Var. flore rubro.

Fringed-leaved Struthiola. Var. red flowered.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

PERIANTHIUM diphyllum. Corolla tubulosa, 4-fida; Nectarium, glandulæ octo fauci circumpositæ.

SEMEN unum, subbaccatum.

CUP two-leaved. Blossom tubular, 4-cleft; Honey-cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth of the blossom.

ONE SEED, like a berry.

See STRUTHIOLA IMBRICATA, Pl. CXIII. Vol. II.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Struthiola foliis ovato-lanceolatis, mucronatis, ciliatis, concavis, quadrifariam imbricatis; glandulæ octo supra faucem; corolla rubra.

Struthiola with leaves between egg and lance-shaped, pointed, fringed, concave and tiled in four rows; eight glands upon the mouth of the blossom, which is red.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A leaf, natural size, from one of the younger branches. 2. A Blossom, with its Cup, or floral leaves. 3. The Cup, magnified. 4. A Blossom cut open, and magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified.

The two varieties of this species of Struthiola, the other with a white flower being intended for our next number, were introduced at the same time with the Struthiola imbricata, to which they much affine, in general habit. But, the strong distinction in the number and character of the glands, induced us to consider them of a distinct species; in this, they are eight, in S. imbricata there are but four; the leaves likewise not so closely set upon the stem, and they are much more fringed. For the culture and treatment of this, we must refer our readers to the directions, for managing the above named plant. We had our specimen, for the figure, from the Clapham collection in May 1800.