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very minutely serrated. Petals dark purplish red. Anthers full flesh- 
colour. {Barren Flowers : stamens capillary, from three to nine. Fer¬ 
tile Floivers: summits nine. FI. Brit. E.) 
Black-berried Heath. Black Crow Berry. Crake Berry. (Gaelic: 
Preas-nam-Fiantag. Dearca-Jithich. E.) Moist mountains and dry 
heaths, both in the driest and most barren rocky soils, and in bogs 
and moorish grounds, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, the northern counties, 
and Scotland, frequent. S. April—May.* 
* The Highlanders frequently eat the berries, as sometimes do children, but they are 
no very desirable fruit, and if taken in large quantities occasion head-ache. Grouse- 
feed upon them. Boiled with alum they afford a dark purple dye. (In Iceland and 
Xorway a sort of wine is prepared from them. Gunn. Norv. E.) Goats are not fond 
of the plant; cows, sheep, and horses refuse it. 
