Recent attempts to emulate Scotland's picturesque heaths by removing livestock proved futile, as bracken and pricklygorse appeared rather than purple heather.
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All around, the ground is olive-coloured with unblossomed heath, bright and golden here and there with the flowerets of the pricklygorse.
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Loch Vennachar lies between hills of comparatively gentle declivity, pastured by flocks, and tufted with patches of the pricklygorse and coarse ferns.
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A swarthy and ill-favoured wight he was, with a beard, as the story goes, that would have swept off the pricklygorse-bush in its progress.