480 OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Menziesia. 
cavity. Blossom deep flesh-colour. Berry pale red, mottled with purple 
dots ; when fully ripe purplish red. 
Cran-berry. Moss-berry. Moor-berry. Fen-berry. Marsh 
Whortle-berries. (Welsh: Llygaeron ; Ceiros y waun. Gaelic: 
Muileag. Schollera Oxy coccus. Roth. Gmel. E.) Peaty bogs. In the 
North, frequent. (At Worlingham, near Beccles. Mr. Woodward. 
Cronkley Fell, Durham. Rev. J. Harriman. E.) Dersingham Moor, 
Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Sutton Coldfield Park, Warwickshire. Ray. (In 
the bogs of Bin’s-pool, near Selborne. White’s Nat. Hist. Near Llyn 
Dinan, and below Bodafon uchaf, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Lincolnshire, 
in great quantities. Bishop’s Woods, near Eccleshall, Staffordshire. 
S. June. E.)* 
(MENZIES'IA.f Bloss . one petal: Cal. one leaf: Caps, supe¬ 
rior; partitions double, from the margins of the valves. 
Sm. E.) 
(M. cjeru'lea. Leaves linear, obtuse, with cartilaginous teeth : flower- 
stalks terminal, aggregate, simple: flowers five-cleft, decandrous. 
E. Bot. 2469— FI. Dan. 57 — FI. Boss. t. 72. f. 2— Linn. Tr. v. 10. t. 30— 
Gmel. Sib. v. 4. t. 57. f. 2. 
A small shrub, four or five inches high. Stems branched, woody, and 
naked below. Peduncles two inches long, glandular, with reddish hairs. 
Flowers four or five at the top of the highest branch, drooping, large, 
ovate, bluish purple. Leaves bright shining green, not half an inch long. 
Scottish Menziesia. M. ccerulea. Swartz. Linn. Tr. v. x. Andros 
meda ccerulea. Linn. A. taxifolia. Pall. Erica ccerulea. Willd. This 
very interesting and rare plant is supposed to have been first detected by 
Messrs. Brown, nurserymen of Perth, near Aviemore in Strathspey. It 
is said also to have been found in the western isles of Shiant. 
S. June—July. Sw. Sm. Hook. E.) 
(M. polifo'lia. Leaves ovate, revolute, cottony beneath: flowers four- 
cleft, octandrous, in terminal leafy clusters. 
Dicks. H. S.—E. Bot. 35— Pet. Gaz. 27. 4. 
Bunch terminal, simple. Flowers alternate. Peduncle with one flower. 
Floral-leaf strap-shaped, at the base of each flower. Calyx only a fourth 
* The berries made into tarts are much esteemed, but on account of a peculiar flavour, 
are disliked by some. They may be kept several years if wiped clean, and then closely 
corked in dry bottles ; or the bottles filled with water. At Longtown,. Cumberland, 
20 1. or 30 1. worth are sold by the poor people every market day, for five or six weeks to¬ 
gether. Lightfoot. The most general name. Cranberry, probably originated from the 
fruit-stalks being crooked at the top, and before the expansion of the blossom, resembling 
the neck and head of a crane. (On poor land, especially of a boggy or peaty nature, the 
cultivation of Cranberries in beds has been recommended. Mr. Milne, who has reported 
the result of his experiments to the Horticultural Society, states that a bed five feet square 
may be expected to yield at least one quart of fruit; and observes that they may be 
made to grow with little trouble in places and on soils where few other useful plants yet 
known will grow to advantage. Considerable quantities of Cranberries have latterly been 
imported from America, but though finer fruit to the eye, they are not, when they reach 
us, so piquant and palatable as our native produce. E.) 
+ (Named by Smith in honour of his friend Archibald Menzies, F. L. S. who accompa¬ 
nied Vancouver in a voyage round the world, and returned with various botanical trea¬ 
sures. E.) 
