Thus there is the bear's-foot, from its digital leaf, the bear-berry, or bear's-bilberry, from its fruit being a favourite food of bears, and the bear's-garlick.

In Gweithdy Bach we'll rest awhile, We'll dress our wounds and learn to smile With easier lips; we'll stretch our legs, And live on bilberry tart and eggs, And store up solar energy, Basking in sunshine by the sea, Until we feel a match once more For anything but another war.

Their food consists of the tops of birch and heath, except when the mountain berries are ripe, at which period they eagerly and even voraciously pick the bilberries and cranberries from the bushes.

V. MYRTILLUS.Whortleberry, Bilberry, Blackberry, and Blueberry.

Heather, bilberry, and cloudberry cover the ground; there are tiny ferns, and the seven-pointed star flowers of the winter-green.

It should be blue, such a colour as might result from a diet of bilberries.

And how pines like bilberry bushes at their feet and sometimes little oaksall trees making a clear, deliberate choice, and holding firmly to it?

In these woods there are small shrubs grow in great abundance, which produce black fruit, known by the name of bilberries, of which during some years the poor people make a plentiful harvest.

The North and South German bear the same relation to each other as beer and schnaps to wine, as bilberries to grapes, as butter and cheese to roast and dessert, as mountains and levels, as leagues and miles.

Their food consists of the tender shoots of pines, the seeds of plants, the berries of the arbutus and bilberry, the buds of the birch and alder, the buds of the heather, leaves, and grain.

Various berries, such as the cranberry, the bilberry, together with the tender shoots of heath, constitute the food of this species.

GREAT BILBERRY.

The Russians, not content with eating the stalks thus prepared, contrive to get a very intoxicating spirit from them, by first fermenting them in water with the greater bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), and then distilling the liquor to what degree of strength they please; which Gmelin says is more agreeable to the taste than spirits made from corn.

For here is the print of your slender foot, And the rose that fell from your braided hair, In the lush deep moss at the bilberry's root And the scent of lilacs is in the air!

Do roses drop from the bilberry bough?

I lived on unthreshed wheat and rye, apples, blackberries, bilberries, carrots, turnips and even raw potatoes.

The higher we ascend, so much the shorter and more dwarflike do the fir-trees become, shrinking up, as it were, within themselves, until finally only whortleberries, bilberries, and mountain herbs remain.