478 OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Vaccinium. 
at the apex, and bicornate. E.) Blossom nearly globular, but a little 
flatted at the base; pale reddish purple; mouth very small, with five 
small reflexed teeth; reddish white. Berries bluish black, (large, acidu¬ 
lous. E.) 
(A variety with white berries was observed by the Duke of Athol, in the 
woods about midway between Dunkeld and Blair: Encyc. Brit. E.) also 
in Corley Woods, Warwickshire, both with berries and blossom white. 
Mr. Bree, in Purt. 
Bilberry. Black Worts. Black Whortle-berry. Wind-berry. 
(Welsh: Lluswydden. Gaelic: Lus-nan-dearc. E.) Woods and heaths. 
Porland Heath. Mr. Crowe. Rocks above Great Malvern, Worcester¬ 
shire. Mr. Ballard. (On the dry hillocks of Wolmer-forest, Selborne. 
White’s Nat. Hist. Hampstead-heath, Middlesex. E.) The Bishop’s 
woods, near Eccleshall. Lightwoods, near Birmingham. (Abundant 
in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. King’s Park, Roslin and Auch- 
indenny woods. Cadnant, &c. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) 
S. April—May.* * 
V. uligino'sum. Fruit-stalks single-flowered: leaves very entire, in¬ 
versely egg-shaped, obtuse, smooth: (branches cylindrical. E.) 
(2?. Bot. 581. E.)— Kniph. 9— FI. Dan. 231— Clus. i. 62. 1— Ger. Evi. 
1416. 6— Park. 1456. 2. 
Stems generally a foot high. Leaves when young fringed at the base, flat. 
Berries blue, with four slight angles, and a white pulp. Linn. Leaves 
with a network of veins underneath, sometimes slightly indented at the 
end, often tinged with red. Woodw. Blossom pink. (Taller than the pre¬ 
ceding. Leaves glaucous beneath. Bloss. smaller than in the last. E.) 
Great Bilberry. Bog Whortle-berry. Rash-berry. (Gaelic: 
Dearca roide. E.) Moist woods, heaths, pastures, and tops of 
mountains. Between Hexham and Penrith. Forest of Whinfield, West¬ 
moreland. Near Julian’s Bower. Highland mountains. Near Gam- 
blesby, Cumberland. Ray. Woodward. (Moist high woods about 
Gwydir, near Llanrwst. Bingley. Mr. Griffith finds only the next species 
in the Gwydir station. The fells of Cumberland; Meldon Fell; and 
moor beyond Cronkley Fell, Durham. Rev. J. Harriman, in Bot. Guide. 
On Ben Lawers. Mr. Winch. E.) S. April—May.f 
* (The first tender leaves cannot be distinguished from real Tea, when properly gathered 
and dried in the shade. Willich. E.) The berries, (not unlike black currants in appear¬ 
ance, E.) are very acceptable, either eaten by themselves, or with milk, or in tarts. Moor 
game live upon them in autumn. The juice stains paper or linen purple, (but this dye 
requires to be fixed with alum. E.) Goats eat the plant; sheep are not. fond of it; 
horses and cows refuse it. (The Highlanders make the berries into tarts, or jellies, 
which last they flavour with whisky.—Mr. Salisbury states that during the months of 
August and September the poor families in the vicinity of Hindhead and Blackdown 
in Surry and Sussex earn several hundred pounds annually by gathering Bilberries for 
the adjacent markets. Slevogt reports this plant as growing to a very extraordinary size in 
Bohemia; frequently attaining four feet in height, with a stem an inch in diameter. E.) 
*j* Children sometimes eat the berries ; but in large quantities they occasion giddiness, 
and a slight head-ach, especially when full grown and quite ripe. Many vintners in France 
are said to make use of the juice to colour their white wines red. Horses, cows, sheep, and 
goats eat it; swine refuse it. (The inhabitants of the Swiss Alps use it for fuel. Hogg in 
Winch Geog. E.) 
