via: ens I, 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 203. 



Cran-berries, Mo's-berries, or Moor-berries. Anglis, 



Muikag. Gau'is. 



On peat-bogs in the lowlands frequent, but not fo 

 common in the highlands. T? . VI. 



The (talks are long, (lender, woody, weak and 

 trailing : the leaves are ftlff, acutely oval, glou- 

 cous underneatli, their edges turn'd back, and 

 grow alternate : two or t:iree flowers grow iingly 

 on long red footilalks out of the extremity of 

 the branches : the flov/ers are red, divided deeply 

 into four acute fegments, v^hich are reflex'd 

 quite backwards : the filaments are downy, the 

 anthen-e ferrugineous, and longer than the fila- 

 ments : the berries red, and about the fize of 

 the hawthorn berries. 



At LongiGZon, oa the borders of CmnherJa}fd, they 

 are made fo confiderabie an article of comanerce, 

 that at the feafon when they are ripe, not lefs 

 than 20 or 30 pounds worth are fold by the poor 

 people each market day for five or fix weeks to- 

 gether, which are afterwards difpers'd over dif- 

 ferent parts of the kingdom, for makino- the 

 well-known cranberry-tarts. . 



KRICA. Gen. pi. 484. 

 Cell. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4--fida, Filamenta receptaculo 



inferta. Anther ^e bifidse. Caps. 4-locularis. 



ERICA antheris bicornibus inclufis, corollis ina^- 



qualibus campanulatis mediocribus, foliis oppo- 



fitis fagittatis. ^).pl. 501. {Gcr. Em. 1380./. i.) 



Common Heath, or Ling. Anglis. Hather. Scotis. 



Fraach. 



