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or preserving or making into really excellent sirops and 

 fermented drinks. It has a cooling effect and is consider- 

 ed a specific against diarrhoea or dysenteric attacks. 



V. uliginosum* (PI. LXVJ1). En g . : Wortleberry ; Tr. : 

 Airelle bleuc, Orcette ; Ger. : Moorbeerc. 



Small shrub with grey, wooded branches, which carry 

 leaves towards their tip but are naked below ; leaves 

 deciduous, ovate, wrinkled and bluish underneath; flowers 

 small, pale pink, in drooping racemes, followed by bluish 

 berries, which are edible but injurious if taken in any 

 large amount. 



P. ntis Uxa* (PI. LXVII1). -Eng. : Cowberry ; Tr.: 



Airelle rouge ; Ger. : Preiselbeere. 



Small tufted shrub, like a trailing box ; leaves evergreen, 

 ovate, of a beautiful shining green; flowers small, white 

 or clear pink, in nodding racemes; berries hard, bright 

 red, edible. June-August. Shady mountain peat. The 

 fruit is much used, especially in Germany, for stews, 

 sirops and pastry. Wine too can be made of it. 



