VACCIN'IUM MYRTIL'LUS. 
MYRTLE BILBERRY. 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
VACCINACE.E. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
15 inches. 
April. 
Shrub. 
Heaths. 
No. 10.56. 
Turner, in his translation of the Herbal of Rem- 
bert Dodoens, who wrote about three hundred years 
ago, says of this plant, “It may very well be called 
in Latin Vacinia, bycause they be little berries, in 
Latin Baccte ; for as some learned men write, the 
word Vacinium commeth of Baccinium, and was 
derived of Bacca ; and, without doubt, this name 
agreeth better with them then the name of Myrtilli, 
the whiche some doo call them by, yet these berries 
be not the right Vacinia whereof Virgil writeth.” 
Of common names this well-known fruit has se- 
veral, Bilberry being the most common ; others 
are, Bleaberry, Whortleberry, Whorts, Windberry, 
Black-whorts, Hurts, and Hurtleberry. 
Our plate represents both the flowers and fmit; 
drawn in April and July, from specimens collected 
on the Lickey Hills, Worcestershire. 
In treating of the Vaccinium myrtillus, we can- 
not render better sendee to our readers than by 
explaining the uses of its berries, which, in some 
districts, are so common as to be much neglected. 
It is true, that, used in a fresh state, they possess 
a flavour or flatness that prevents their becoming 
