OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ^oj 



Black-Whorts, Whonie-Berrics, or Billbcrries,. 

 Anglis. 



Lus-nan-dearc. Gaulis, 



In woods and on heaths abnndantlv. T? - V. 



The flowers frequently vary with five fegments at 

 the rim, and with ten ilamina. 



The berries when ripe are of a blueifh black color, 

 but a Angular variety,, with white berries, was 

 difcovered by his Grace the Duke of Athol^ 

 growing in the woods about the mid-way be- 

 tween his two feats of Dunkeld and Blair, 



The berries have an aftringenc quality. In Arran 

 and the Weilern ifles they are given in diarrh:x!as 

 and dyfenteries with good effedl. 



The Highlanders frequently eat them in milk, w^hich 

 is a cooling agreeable food, and fometimes they 

 make them into tarts and jellies, which laft they 

 mix with Whifkey to give it a relifh to flrangers. 



They dye a violet color, but it requires to be fix'd 

 v/ith alum. The grous feed upon them in the 

 Autumn. 



ulmnofum VACCINIUM pedunculis unifioris, foliis integer- 

 2. rimis ovalibus obtufis Irevibus. Syjf. Nat, 267. 



Sp. pL 499. (Oed. Dan. L 231. opl. Ger, Em. 

 1416./. 6J 

 The great Billberry-Bufli. Anglis. 

 D care a roide. Gaulis 



It is found in low moift grounds, and almoft at 

 the fummits of the highland mountains, as up- 

 on Creg-Ch^ilkach in Brcadall?ane, upon the 



higher 



