. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. G08 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM 1164. V. dumdsum. 2 lanceolate bracteoles. Leaves obovate, mucronate, entire, downy, and viscid. Ovarium hairy. Corolla bell-shaped, obtuse, longer than the stamens. Branches round. Leaves \\m. Tong. Calycine segments fringed. (Don's Mill.') A lo
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. G08 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM 1164. V. dumdsum. 2 lanceolate bracteoles. Leaves obovate, mucronate, entire, downy, and viscid. Ovarium hairy. Corolla bell-shaped, obtuse, longer than the stamens. Branches round. Leaves \\m. Tong. Calycine segments fringed. (Don's Mill.') A low bushy deciduous shrub. New Jersey to Florida, in dry sandy woods, particularly in pine forests. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1774. Flowers white, tinged with pink, rather large; June and July. Berries black, globular; ripe in November. Variety. J, V. rf. 2 hmnile Wats. Dend. Brit. t. 32. — The flowers are white; anthers red; pedicels solitary, axillary. Shrub, 6 in. high. a 12. r. coRYMBo'suM L. The corymbose;;/?ozi;ew(f Whortleberry. Identification. Lin. Sp., 499.; Don's Mill., 3. p. SSS ; Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 3433. Synonymes. V. amoenum Ait. Hort, Keur. ed. 2, vol. 2. p. 358.; V. disomdrpiiuin Michx. Ft. Bar. Amer. 1. p. 231.; F. elevJltum Hort. ; V. Slbum Lam. Bid. 1. p. 1-3. Engravings, nend. Brit., ; Bot. Kep., ; Bot. Mag., t. 3433.; and our^s. 1165. and 1166. Spec. Char., Sfc. Flowering branches almost leafless. Racemes corymbose, drooping, with membranous bracteas, which are shorter than the downy flower stalks. Leaves elliptic, acute, minutely serrated, smooth, with downy ribs. {Don's Mill.) Leaves 1J in. to 2 in. long, tipped with a glandular point. Racemes rising from the branches of the preceding year, and seldom accompanied by leaves. Brac-teas reddish, membranous, and fringed. Caly- cine segments broad and shallow. Corollas white or reddish, cylindrically urceolate, rather angular, and contracted at the mouth. Stamens 10, downy. Anthers enc
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