OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 201 



Black-Whorts, \Yhorde-Bernes, or Billberries. 

 Anglis. 



Lus-nan-dearc. Gaiilis. 



In woods and on heaths abundantly, t? - V. 



The flowers frequently vary with five fegments at 

 the rim, and with ten llamina. 



The berries when ripe are of a biueilh bJack color, 

 but a fingular variety, with white berries, was 

 difcoveied by his Grace the Duke of Athol^ 

 growing in the v;oods about the mid- way be- 

 tv/een his two feats of Bunkeld and Blair. 



The berries have an aftringent quality. In Arran 

 and the Weftern iOes they are given in diarrha^as 

 and dyfenteries with good effedl. 



The Highla'dders ivit^\vKvx\y eat them in milk, which 

 is a cooling agreeable food, and fometimes they 

 make them into tarts and jellies, which lad they 

 mix with Whijkey to give it a rclifh to flrangers. 



They dye a violet color, but it requires to be fix'd 

 with alum. The grous feed upon them in the 

 Autumn. 



VACCINIUM pedunculis uniflorls, foliis integer- 

 rimis ovalibus obtufis 'liEvibus. ^yjl. Nat. 16-], 

 Sp. pi. 499. (Osd. Dan. L 231. opL Ger. Em. 



The great Billberry-BuHi. A?iglis. 



Dearca roide. Gaulis 



It is found in low moifl grounds, and ahnoft at 

 the fummits of the highland mountains, as up- 

 on Creg-Ckailleacb in Breadalbane^ upon the 



higher 



