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.[Pg 559]
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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.