48 HOW TO KNOW WILD FRUITS 



honeylike. The ovate calyx lobes support the 

 fruit at its base. It is yellow or amber-colored 

 and usually tinged with red on the surface ex- 

 posed to the sun. It is solitary and borne on 

 a terminal stem. 



Leaves. — Two, simple, roundish, five- to nine- 

 lobed leaves, somewhat like geranium leaves, 

 grow on the unbranched stems. They are ser- 

 rate and alternate. 



Flowers. — The blossoms are white. Stami- 

 nate flowers grow on one plant; pistillate, on 

 another. 



This is a low herbaceous plant without 

 prickles, which, in New England, is found along 

 the coast of Maine and on the highest peaks of 

 the White Mountains. It grows quite abun- 

 dantly in Nova Scotia, Labrador, Newfoundland, 

 and in the northern part of Quebec. It flour- 

 ishes in greatest profusion even farther to the 

 north, being an Arctic plant in Europe and Asia 

 as well as in America. The northern berries are 

 superior in size and quality. 



The Indians in northern Quebec cook the 

 berries in a sugar made from birch juice, and the 

 dwellers in the posts of the Hudson Bay Company 

 make from them a jam of rare flavor. 



