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resembles that of the sea-poppy and sea-holly and garden 

 lavender, and many other plants which grow on a dry soil in 

 the reflected glare of the sun, the sea buckthorn is the only 

 member of its family in Britain ; and its berries are unlike 

 any others. It has no kinship with either the common or 

 alder buckthorns of inland hedges and thickets, and its 

 narrow silvery leaves, at first sight, make it look like some 



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species of willow. High woods and mountains have an 

 abundant and characteristic series of berry-bearing plants, 

 most of which are plentiful at lower levels over a vast tract 

 of land in northern Europe and Asia. Besides the bilberry 

 or whinberry or whortleberry or hurt as it is called in 

 different parts of the country many high-lying tracts 

 abound with the black crowberry and the red cowberry and 

 bearberry. The shoots and berries of all these plants form 

 a considerable part of the food of the red and black grouse 

 and of the ptarmigan, though the red grouse, at any rate, 



