OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 20^ 



Cran-berries, Mo''"s-berries, or Moor-berries. Jtnglis. 

 Muileag. Gau'is. 

 On peat-bogs in the lowlands frequent, but not fo 



common in the highlands. T? . VI. 

 The ftalks are long, (lender, woody, weak and 

 trailing : the leaves are ftiiT, acutely oval, glou- 

 cous underneath, their edges turn'd back, and 

 grow alternate : two or three fiowers grow fingly 

 on long red footilalks out of the extremity of 

 the branches : the flowers are red, divided deep!'/ 

 ;nto four acute fegments, which are reflex'd 

 quite backv/ards : the filaments are downy, the 

 anthers ferruginecus, and longer than the fila- 

 ments : the berries red, and al:^out the fize of 

 the hawthorn berries ^^ 

 At Lcngtcruvny on the borders of Cumberland, they 

 are made fo confiderabie an article of commerce, 

 that at the fcafon when they are ripe, not lefs 

 than 20 or 30 pounds worth are fold by the poor 

 people each market day for fivQ or fix weeks to- 

 gether, v;hich are afterwards difpers*d over dif- 

 ferent parts of the kingdom, for making the 

 well-known cranberry-tarts. 



ERICA. Gen. pL 4B4. 



Cal 4-phyllug. Ccr. 4-fida. Fitanwita receptaculo 



inferta. Anther<^ bifida^. Caps. 4-locularis. 



mlaris I. ERICA anthcris bicornibus inclufis, corollis ins- 



quaiibus campanulatis mediocribus, foliis oppo- 



fitis fagittatis. Sp.pl. 501. (Ger.. Em. 1380./. i.) 



Conimon Jieath, or Ling. Anglis* Hather. Scotis, 



Fraoch. 



