. 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. XLiii. ^RicA^ : facci'nium. 609. Jig. 1168. — The flowers striped with red and white, and the calyx downy. Lower Carolina and Georgia, in swamps. 8E V. e. 4 angustifoliuvi, V, virgatum var. angusti- folium Wats. Dend. Brit. t. Si. —The leaves narrow, lanceolate, and acuminated at bot
. 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. XLiii. ^RicA^ : facci'nium. 609. Jig. 1168. — The flowers striped with red and white, and the calyx downy. Lower Carolina and Georgia, in swamps. 8E V. e. 4 angustifoliuvi, V, virgatum var. angusti- folium Wats. Dend. Brit. t. Si. —The leaves narrow, lanceolate, and acuminated at both ends, sessile, besprinkled with brown, minute, pedicel- late glands beneath, and hairy on the midrib above. Flowers almost white. This variety, like the preceding ones of V. corymbosum, is very handsome, and very distinct; and, in British gardens, of easy culture, in sandy peat soil, which, however, as in all similar cases, must be kept cool, and of an equable degree of moisture. j4 13. V. albiflo'eum Hook. The white-flowered Whortleberry. Identification. Hook, in Bot. Mag,, 3428.; Gard. Mag., vol. 11. p. 475. Synonyme. V. album Lam, ? Engravings, Bot. Mag., t. 342S. ; and out Jig. 1169. Spec, Char., Sfc, Leaves oval-lanceolate, obscurely ser- rulate, membranous, pilose beneath, with spreading hairs, especially on the midrib and primary veins. ues. f. c. fuscMu™. Flower-bearing branches leafless. Racemes a little corymbose, directed to one side, drooping, bracteated with shortly deciduous bracteas. Calyx spreading, with a tendency to be reflexed. Corolla broadly oval. Ovary wholly inferior. (Hooker.) A small deciduous shrub, with spreading branches. North America. Height 1 ft. to 2 ft. Introduced ? 1820. Flowers white ; May. The affinity of this very pretty species is undoubtedly with V. corymbosum, but the half-superior ovary of V. corymbosum, and the wholly inferior one of V. albiflorum, and other points of difference implied in those noticed in the specific character
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