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The berries of the plant, Hooker says,* are much 
used for preserves in Northern countries. Prior tells 
us the name “ whortleberry ” is a confusion for “myrtle- 
berry.” The Anglo-Saxon heorot-berie was, he says, 
the blackberry. The blue-berries, or hurts, of the 
bilberry gave the name to the azure roundles of the 
heralds (hurts).f We have two closely allied species, 
natives—the one of mountainous bogs, from West¬ 
morland northwards—viz., V. uliginosum , L. ; the 
other the cowberry, V. vitis-idams, L. 
In the herb-garden this month camomile, cara¬ 
ways and marjoram will be in blossom. The medicinal 
camomile is but once referred to—1 Henry IV., II. 
iv. 443 : 
Though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster 
it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it 
wears. 
The plant Anthemis nobilis, L., a native of Spain, 
Germany, Austria and North Africa, is still used as 
a tonic and febrifuge, and Gerard says that it was 
considered good in many stomachic complaints as 
well as for weariness. 
Caraways is a name applied through Middle Latin 
carui semina to the seeds of Carum carui, L., an 
umbelliferous plant naturalized in waste places in our 
own country, and found wild on the Continent as far 
east as Western Asia. 
It is only once mentioned in the poet, and then as 
an ingredient in cakes, as the seeds are used to the 
present day. Ellacombe, however, seems to consider 
it a variety of apple,]: though it is hardly likely the 
guests would be regaled with first one variety, then 
another: 
* “ English Flora,” 2nd ed., p. 242. 
f Woodward, “ Brit, and For. Her.,” p. 190, 
X He alters his opinion in a later edition, 
