ink-berry

Updated: May 29, 2025

So they were called, too, by that lover of flowers, Walter Savage Landor, who, as his biographer says, followed a pronunciation "traditional in many old English families." I took it for a member of the heath family, but it proved to belong with the hollies, Ilex glabra, or ink-berry, a plant not to be found in the county where it is my present lot to botanize.

Bradford Torrey - The Foot-path Way