The Botanical Register Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...received from the Botanic Garden of Berlin. It is perfectly hardy, and flowers in May and June. Root perennial. Stems herbaceous, procumbent, radicant, from a foot and a half to two feet long, quite simple, seldom branched, smooth, frequently purplish, slightly 4cornered. Leaves subsessile, opposite, obtuse, dark green above, subrevolute at the edge, very shortly and bristly ciliate, the lowermost nearly round, the next ovate, then oblongly ovate, and lastly lanceolate. Flowers 4-5 upon a stem; peduncles solitary, axillary, seldom opposite, upright, equal to the leaves or longer, round or slightly compressed, recurved after the flower has faded. Calyx slightly coloured, 5-parted, Upright, persistent, segments wideset, acute, minutely ciliate, toothed on each side the base by a small gland. Corolla like that of the congeners, about an inch and half across, varying from a deep violet purple to white, deepishly five-furrowed at the narrow part of the tube, faux closed by a White pubescence. Filaments hirsute where they join to the corolla, prominent on one side, smooth, white, dilated towards the anthers. Anthers yellow hirsutely furred at the top without, having a membranous lamina on each side their middle. Germern 2, ovate, intercepted on each side by a yellow green melliferous gland. Styles white. Stigmas white-Woolled. Follicles 2, sometimes narrowed in the middle, subangular, narrower towards the top, one of them often miscarrying. Seeds oblong, convex on one side, with a longitudinal cavity on the other VACCINIUM fuscatum. Cluster-flowered JVhortle-berry. OCTANDRIA (DECANDRIA. Purtk.) MONOGYNl/i. Nat. ord. Ekioje. Jussieu gen. 159. Div. II. Germen inferum aut seminiferum. Ericeje. Brown prod. 557. VACCINIUM. Cal. superus 4-(5-) dentatus aut integer...