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obovate, obtuse, crenately serrated ; stipulas ovate, very blunt ; flow- 

 ers solitary, terminal, deep rose-colored ; calycine segments, lanceo- 

 late-linear, downy, shorter than the corolla ; petals eraarginate ; fruit 

 large, purple, or red, sweet scented. Limiajus has accurately figured 

 this species of Bramble in his Fl. Lapponica, out of gratitude, as he 

 expresses himself, from the benefit he reaped from it in his Lapland 

 journey ; it having so frequently recruited his spirits when almost 

 sinking with fatigue and hunger, by the vinous nectar of its berries. 

 He informs us that the principal people in Norland, make a syrup, a 

 jelly, and a wine from these berries, which they partly consume 

 themselves, and partly send to their friends ; this wine is of the 

 most delicious kind. This is a native of Canada, of Siberia, and the 

 northern part of England. Flowers in June and July. 



Riihiis chnnvrmorus. Mountain Bramble. This is a creeping 

 plant, only rising from six to eight inches in height ; stem simple, 

 one-flowered, puberidous, unarmed ; leaves somewhat uniform, wrin- 

 kled, plicate, roundly lobed, and toothed ; stipidas oval, obtuse ; 

 flowers dioecious ; calycine segments, ovate, longer than the corolla ; 

 petals elliptical, rather incumbent ; carpels nearly globose, large, 

 flowers white ; fruit large, of a dull orange-color, acid nuicilaginous, 

 and_ pleasant to the taste. From their exalted situation, they are 

 sometimes called cloud berries, also knot benies, krwut berries, or roe 

 berries. The plant flowers in June, soon after the snow is dissolved, 

 and the berries are scarcely well ripened in August, before the plant 

 is again overwhelmed with its winter covering. The snow preserves 

 the fruit, and is used by the Laplanders to keep it through the win- 

 ter ; for they, as well as the Scotch highlanders, esteem it as one of 

 their most grateful and useful fruits, especially on accomit of its long 

 duration. Its taste is moderately acid and mucilaginous, with some- 

 thing of the flavor of tamerinds. They are held tc be an excellent 

 anti-scorbutic. The Norwegians pack them upon wooden vessels, 



