Bilberry

the name given to one or two species of a genus of plants belonging to the order cranberries. It is also called the whortleberry. It has angular stems, drooping, urceolate, almost waxy flowers, greenish with a red tinge, and black berries very pleasant to the taste. It grows in woods and healthy places. The great bilberry or bog whortleberry is an allied species with rounded stems, smaller flowers, and le agreeably tasted fruit. It grows in mountain bogs. It is called also the bleaberry or biaeberry. The name is also applied to the fruit of the species described.