Atragene with opposite, twice-three-divided leaves; leaflets rough and sawed; flowers solitary, downy, nodding; empalement large, blue, and bordered. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Leaf of the empalement. 2. A Petal of the flower. 3. A Chive complete. 4. The Pointals as they stand in the flower. 5. A ripe seed, with its feathered tail. This is, unquestionably, the Austrian Atragene of Jacquin’s Vind. 249; and, we think, no one who has had an opportunity of comparing the A. alpina with this plant, but will determine it a distinct species. It is a hardy, climbing shrub; growing frequently, eight or ten feet in a season, and covers itself pretty abundantly with foliage; the foot-stalks of the old leaves becoming cirrhi or tendrils, and the wood growing to a considerable thickness. The flowers begin to appear about May; and continue in succession, till July. It may be propagated by layers; but, the surest mode is by seed, which may be sown as soon as ripe, and which will be perfected from the first flowers, by August. It grows the most flourishing in light rich earth; but will live in the most common. Our figure was made from a plant in the Hammersmith collection, to which it was first introduced in the year 1792. [Illustration] PLATE CLXXXI. VACCINIUM VIRGATUM. _Green-twigged Whortle-berry._ CLASS VIII. ORDER I. _OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Eight Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX superus. Corolla monopetala. Filamenta receptaculo inserta. Bacca quadrilocularis, polysperma. CUP superior. Blossom one petal. Threads fixed into the receptacle. A berry with four cells and many seeds. See VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLLOS. Pl. XXX. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Vaccinium foliis oblongo-ovatis, ferrulatis, deciduis, ramulis viridibus; floribus, sub-umbellatis, axillaribus; corollis, sub-cylindraceis; calycibus apice reflexis. Staminibus decem. Whortle-berry with oblong egg-shaped leaves, slightly sawed, deciduous, the small branches green; flowers grow rather umbelled from where the leaves are fixed to the stem; blossoms nearly cylindrical; cups reflexed at the upper part. Ten chives. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower complete. 2. The Cup. 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, the cup cut off, magnified. 4. A nearly ripe berry. This species of Whortle-berry was, according to the Kew Catalogue, introduced by Mr. Young in the year 1770. It is a hardy plant; and, as a native of North America, where it is an under shrub of the woods, should be planted in a shady situation, in peat earth. It is rarely killed by our frosts; grows about two feet high, and loses its leaves in winter. Our drawing was made in June, this year, at the Nursery, Hammersmith, where it is propagated by layers. [Illustration] PLATE CLXXXII. MALVA DIVARICATA. _Straddling-branched Mallow._ CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. _MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA._ Threads united. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.