24 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
elliptical or oval-obovate, obtuse or sub-obtuse, entire, pale glau- 
cous-green above, very glaucous and netted-veined below, but not 
dotted with glands, glabrous. Mowers drooping, solitary or 2 or 3 
together, apparently lateral, but really at the termination of the 
branches of the preceding year. Peduncles 1 -flowered, rather 
slender, short, straight, glabrous, surrounded by hooded scarious 
oval bracts at the base, destitute of bracteoles. Calyx 4- or 
5-toothed, with the teeth semicircular, glabrous. Corolla ovate- 
urceolate, with 4 or 5 short ovate reflexed teeth. Anther-cells 
produced into short tubes at the apex, with 2 curved awns on the 
back. Berry bluish-black, pruinose-glaucous. 
In bogs and on wet ledges of rocks in mountainous districts in 
the North of England and Scotland ; rather common in the High- 
lands, extending from Durham and Westmoreland to Shetland. 
England, Scotland. Shrub. Summer. 
Stems rigid, 6 to 18 incehs high, bare of leaves below. Leaves 
J to 1 inch long, sub-coriaceous, deciduous, pale dull glaucous- 
green, especially beneath, where the veins are glabrous, prominent, 
and form a network with large meshes. Plowers at the termination 
of the branches of the preceding season, but usually appearing 
lateral from the shoot of the year being continued beyond them from 
a bud close beneath the inflorescence-buds. Peduncles longer than 
the flowers. Calyx red. Corolla scarcely J inch long, white or pale- 
rose. Berries about the size of black currants, covered with a bloom 
like that on the Sloe. Plant glabrous. 
Great Bilberry. 
French, Airelle Veinee. German, Eausclibeere. 
The berries of this species have somewhat the flavour of the rest, but, eaten in any 
quantity, they occasion headache and giddiness. la France they are said to be used 
for colouring wines red, and in Siberia and Sweden they furnish an ardent spirit by 
distillation. They afford excellent food to game. The leaves are added to Lycopodium 
alpinurn by the islanders, and a yellow dye for colouring woollens is produced by an 
infusion of the two plants. 
SPECIES IV— VAC CI NIUM MYRTILLUS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCLXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXIX. Fig. 1-3. 
BiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 52. 
Rootstock creeping. Stems erect or ascending, rather stiff, 
woody below, much branched. Leaves very shortly stalked, oval 
or oval-lanceolate, acute, serrate, green on both sides, paler below, 
