OF TREES AND PLANTS. 147 



of the rocks by a fpring at Zowg-crag, near JfW/m^-ftrcet, by the 

 road to Thockrington from Gunivarton. On the moor-edge, by Di- 

 ligate-\\Vi\\, near Hexham, plentifully. The root is creeping and 

 woody. The ftalks are flender, and branched, from half a foot 

 to a foot in length. The leaves are like thofe of Box, of a deep 

 glofly green, and alternate. The flowers are on pedicles, in a 

 pendulous clufter at the extremity of the branches, five, fix or 

 feven together, according to the flrength of the plant. They 

 are monopetalous, of a cylindric campaniform fhape, lightly cut, 

 of a bright white, and fometimes of a pale red ; the ftamina 

 corniculated, the tube revolute. The fruit is red, of a grateful 

 acid tafte. The leaves are bitter. Ufed in the form of tea, they 

 are accounted good againft rheums and diftillations of the head. 



19. Upright deciduous-leaved Wortle-berry, or great Bill-berry-bujlj, 

 (c). In woods, in wet mofly places. In the Duke of Portland's 

 wood, called the Eajl Common, near Hexham. It is from a foot to 

 two feet and a half high ; the lower part naked, very much 

 branched at the top. The leaves are of an ovated form, and in 

 the older and more robuft plants pretty long, mining, and full 

 'of veins. The flowers are on pedicles, one or two together, cy- 

 lindric, contracted and reflex at the brims, with four or five den- 

 ticles', lightly cut. They are white, with a blufli of purple. 

 They have eight or ten ftamina, four of them corniculated, 

 two of them bending inwards, and the other two flraight; 

 the tube thick and cylindric. The ovarium is globofe, and four 



(c) Vitis Idaen. n. Cltif. Pan. p. 77, 79. Hift. p. 61, 62. bene. Viti Idaea magna, qui- 

 bufdam Myrtillus grandis. /. B. i. p. 518. Raj. Hift. p. 1487. Syn. iii. p. 457. Town. 

 Inft. p. 6c8. Vitis Idsa foliis fubrotundis exalbidis. C. B. Pin. p. 470. Vaccinium altif- 

 fimum, foliis fubrotundis exalbidis. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 39. Vaccinia Offic. Dal. Pharm. 

 p. 294.. Vaccinium foliis ovalibus deciduis. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 113. n. 312. Vaccinium 

 foliis annuis deciduie. Flo. Lapnon. n. 142. Hall. Helv. p. 414. 



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