Jackson: The Bearberry on the Southern Pennines. 95. 
Two of these, like all on this block, are imprints, are long 
and narrow, and not at all ‘splayed.’ They do not cover half 
the area of the other large footprints, the toes being almost 
parallel with each other. They also show signs of joints. 
They do not seem to have any connection with any other 
imprints. Near them is a footprint showing the ‘ pad’ and 
the tips of five toes. This is markedly distinct from all other 
impressions and almost suggests a crocodilian imprint, in 
which connection it may be mentioned that a vertebra of 
Teleosaurus is recorded from Castle Hill. What appears to be 
an imperfect second similar print appears on the same block. 
Altogether not fewer than thirty prints have been counted, 
rejecting all doubtful specimens. For the photographs I am 
indebted to Mr. A. E. Peck, F.L.S., and Mr. A. I. Burnley. 
7-O: 
THE BEARBERRY ON THE SOUTHERN 
PENNINES. 
A. BRUCE JACKSON. 
WHEN driving in the Peak District last summer with my friend, 
Mr. T. E. Routh, I took the opportunity of looking up the 
Bearberry ( Arctostaphylos Uva-urst) in the two South Pennine 
localities recorded by Dr. Moss in The Naturalist, 1908, p. 
288, and was glad to find it still plentiful in both the South-west 
Yorkshire and North Derbyshire stations. A keeper who 
showed me the plant on the hillside knew of its occurrence on 
more than one clough on the Derwent Moors. He called it 
‘ Uvers’ under which name it is known to local herbalists who 
come in numbers from Sheffield and Manchester to gather it 
for medicinal purposes. An infusion of the leaves is said to 
be good for kidney complaints.* No doubt the Cowberry 
(Vaccinium Vitis-id@a) is gathered as well as the Bearberry 
as both plants grew in close association, but the wholesale 
collection of both species, which I am informed takes place, 
must soon lead to extinction so far as the rarer plant is concerned 
No fruits of the Bearberry were seen, although a careful search 
was made for them. 
I have looked repeatedly for Arctostaphylos on the moors 
near Fox House but have so far been unable to verify the 
records of its occurrence there by the earlier botanists. One 
of Whitehead’s original localities, ‘Stenior Clough, near the 
source of the Derwent.’ is quite close to the spot where I saw 
it on the Yorkshire Moors. This species attains its southern- 
most limit in Derbyshire. 
* Bentley and Tremen (Medicinal Plants, Vol. 1II., 163, 1886), state 
that the leaves have astringent properties, and are reputed to havea 
specific effect in certain diseases of the kidneys and bladder. 
1913 Feb. 1. 
