Part 93

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Vaccinium foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris; floribus solitariis, axillaribus; pedunculis longissimis, bracteatis; corollis urceolatis subalbidis; stamina decem.

Whortle-berry with oval, pointed, smooth leaves; flowers grow solitary from the foot-stalk of the leaves, close to the stem; foot-stalks of the flowers are very long, having floral leaves; blossoms pitcher-shaped, nearly white; ten chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower complete. 2. The Cup and its Foot-stalk, with the floral Leaves. 3. The Seed-bud, Pointal, and Chives. 4. The same, magnified. 5. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified.

This species of Whortle-berry is a neat, compact, bushy shrub; and like all the rest of those which have ten chives, and the other parts consonant, can scarcely be considered as a hardy plant; for although it will live through a mild winter, if planted in a warm and dry situation, on an open border; yet it will in general be destroyed, by the severe frosts which happen late in spring. It should be planted in sandy peat earth, with a small portion of light loam; may be propagated by layers, which do not commonly root, sufficiently to be taken off, under two years from the time of their being put down. As a hardy green-house plant it is best preserved in a flourishing state, and will flower about the month of June; in which month, this year, our drawing was made, at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, by whom it was introduced from North America in the year 1783.

PLATE CXIII.

STRUTHIOLA IMBRICATA.

Tiled-leaved Struthiola.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

CALYX, nullus; nisi bracteas sub germine pro calyce assumas.

COROLLA monopetala, marcescens; tubus filiformis, elongatus; limbus quadripartitus, planus, tubo brevior; laciniis ovatis.

Nectarium, glandulæ quatuor, seu octo, ovatæ, fauci circumpositæ, penicillo proprio cinctæ.

STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, brevissima, intra tubum ocultata. Antheræ lineares.

PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. Stigma capitatum, hispidum.

PERICARPIUM coriaceum, ovatum, uniloculare.

SEMEN unicum, acutiusculum.

EMPALEMENT, none; unless you take the floral leaves at the base of the seed-bud for the cup.

BLOSSOM one petal, withering; tube thread-shaped, lengthened; border of four divisions, flat, shorter than the tube; segments egg-shaped.

Honeycup, four or eight oval glands, placed round the mouth of the blossom, each being surrounded by its brush of hairs.

CHIVES. Four threads, very short, hid within the tube. Tips linear.

POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the tube. Summit, a hairy knob.

SEED-VESSEL leathery, egg-shaped, of one cell.

SEED One, a Little Pointed.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.