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used by the Laplanders as well as by the Scottish Highlanders for that purpose. By 
Northern nations the Cloudberry is esteemed as a most grateful and useful fruit. 
Its taste is pleasant, superior to that of wild strawberries, and very delicious when 
boiled with sugar into a preserve. ‘The Laplanders bury the fruit under the snow, and 
thus preserve it fresh for a long period. They bruise the berries, and eat them with 
the milk of the reindeer, and sometimes make a jelly of them boiled with fish. In 
Norway and Sweden the Cloudberry is exceedingly abundant, growing even near the 
North Cape. In the autumn the berries are collected and sent to Stockholm, where 
they are in great esteem, not only as an article of diet, but as a medicinal remedy. In 
Sweden, vinegar is made by fermenting the berries. Dr. Clarke, the celebrated traveller, 
mentions the Cloudberry several times in his ‘ Northern Wanderings.” In Lapland, 
he says, “ Whenever we walked near the river, we found whole acres covered with these 
blushing berries (at first crimson, afterwards becoming yellow), hanging so thick that 
we could not avoid treading on them.” He also says: “The same plant is found upon 
some of the highest mountains and in some of the great bogs of the North of England, 
on which account, perhaps, it is called Cloudberry in our own island.” He ascribes his 
own recovery from a dangerous fever to the beneficial effects of this fruit, and says : 
“Mr. Grape’s children came into the room, bringing with them two or three gallons of 
the fruit of the Cloudberry, or Rubus Chamemorus. This plant grows so abundantly 
near the river, that it is easy to gather bushels of the fruit. As the large berry ripens 
—which is as big as the top of a man’s thumb—its colour, at first scarlet, becomes yellow, 
When eaten with sugar and cream, it is cooling and delicious, and tastes like the large 
American hautboy strawberry. Little did the author dream of the blessed effects he 
was to experience by tasting of the offering brought by these little children, who, proud 
of having their gifts accepted, would gladly run and gather daily a fresh supply, which 
was as often blended with cream and sugar by the hands of his mother, until, at last, 
he perceived that his fever rapidly abated, his spirits and his appetite returned, and, 
when sinking under a disorder so obstinate that it seemed incurable, the blessings of 
health were restored to him when he had reason to believe he should have found his grave. 
The symptoms of amendment were almost instantaneous after eating of these berries.” 
It has been suggested that the gardener might find means to render this plant 
a valuable and useful addition to the kitchen garden by crossing the flowers with those 
of the bramble and the raspberry, and thus overcoming the tendency to flourish only 
away from cultivation. 
A sprig of the Cloudberry is the badge of the Highland clan McFarlane. 
SPECIES I1L—RUBUS SAXATILIS. Lin. 
Prate CCCCXLLI. y 
Rootstock creeping, stoloniferous. Stems herbaceous, simple, 
the flowering ones erect, the barren shoots (often absent) procum- 
bent, unarmed or prickly ; prickles none, or very small. Leaves 
stalked, ternate; leaflets thin, green below, rhomboid-oval, the 
lateral ones ovate, coarsely and irregularly serrate ; the serratures 
with rounded margins. Stipules free, strapshaped - lanceolate. 
Flowers few, in a terminal corymbose cyme. Petals strapshaped- 
oblanceolate, narrower than the sepals, erect. Fruit not separating 
