i34 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



bilberries, but the juice thereof is white and fweetifh: The Fin- 

 landers in Nordland are very fond of thefe berries, and ufe them 

 as a powerful antifcorbutic. 



Aaker or agerbaer, land-berries, derive their name from growing 

 under the grafs in the ridges betwixt the furrows, but they are onlv 

 found in the northern provinces, being of fuch a nature, like the 

 tranebae, as to require a fliarp cold to ripen them inftead of heat, 

 In colour and figure they are not unlike bilberries, only fomethin^ 

 blacker and larger, the tafte of them is a pleafant acid. In Sweden, 

 particularly the province of Middelpad, abounds in them, and great 

 quantities are carried to Stockholm, where they are chiefly ufed 

 to put in wine, like cherries, for a pleafant and cooling fummer- 

 draught. Linnaeus, in the above cited pafiage, recommends, that 

 in tranfplanting them, during winter they mould be covered with 

 fnow to cherifli them, as without this fence they infallibly perifh. 

 Plate x. fig. Tyltebaer a very wholfom and pleafant red berry, growing on 

 c ' the mofs in high fituations. The fiem is fhort, the leaves fmall 



like thofe of box, the flowers of a lively red. Thefe berries grow 

 fo thick that they are plucked off by handfuls, they are in fuch 

 vogue in Denmark, as to be fent thither preferved for the table, 

 and though their fweetnefs and acidity be mixed with a bitter 

 yet this is very pleafant, and greatly promotive of digeftion, which 

 has recommended it to be ufed at tables. Their juice is thick, 

 but when mixed with wine is exceeding palatable and wholfom. 

 Meeibser. Among the tylteberries grows another tribe called meelbaer, all 



the difference betwixt thefe is, that the ftem of the meelbaer is a 

 little thicker, and the berries a little flatter, but of no manner 

 of value, and full of little white grains like fand. 

 chamoemo- Moltebar, Chamoemonus Norvegica, the Norway-ftrawberry, 

 gka Nom " grows in fwampy or mofly places, on items fomething larger than 

 Plate x. fig. ^ common ftrawberry, the flower whiteifli, with a round in- 

 dented leaf, about the circumference of a half-crown, if it hap- 

 pens to thunder whilft they are in bloom, the produce of the 

 berries is greatly diminifhed thereby, otherwife, fuch is the abun- 

 dance of them, that they are carried as a pickle by barrels, and 

 even tuns, to Germany, and Denmark; where, according to 

 Thorn. Bartholin, in Med. Danor. domeft. by order of Chriftian 

 iv. great pains were taken to propagate this fruit in his gardens, 

 2 but 



