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saucer and brought into the house, they perfume the whole room. They are 

 of a dark red colour, and about the size of the common raspberry, but the 

 plant itself is so diminutive that an entire shrub, with all its branches, leaves, 

 and fruit, was placed by Dr. E. D. Clarke within a phial, holding about six 

 ounces of alcohol, in which state it was preserved with even its colours un- 

 altered, and might be so, this traveller remarks, for any length of time, pro- 

 vided it be kept from the access of external air. 



* * * * Leaves simple. 



5. Mountain Raspberry, or Cloudberry (R. chamcemdrus). — Stem 

 herbaceous, without prickles, 1-flowered ; leaves lobed and plaited. This is a 

 very distinctly marked species of Bramble, growing in the mountainous parts 

 of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. It has in June beautiful large 

 white flowers, often delicately tinted with rose colour, having their stamens 

 and pistils on separate plants. The stems are about half a foot high, creep- 

 ing like the stems of the raspberry and Arctic species. 



The delicious fruits of this Bi'amble are prized in all countries in which 

 they grow, and, though rare in this kingdom, are plentiful in the North of 

 Europe. The bogs near the water in some parts of Lapland are covered with 

 Cloudberries, and Dr. Clarke relates that from a spot thus situated, he and 

 his Swedish interpreter gathered, in little more than an hour and a half, a 

 large basketful of the fruit. "In its natural state," says this writer, "no 

 fruit looks more beautiful. We endeavoured to procure a small cask of it to 

 send to England, but wanting a sufficient quantity of sugar, the acetous 

 fermentation took place, and the whole mass was spoiled. Wherever we 

 walked near the river we found whole acres covered with its blushing fruits, 

 hanging so thick that we could not help treading on them. As they ripen 

 they lose their crimson hue, and turn yellow, when the flavour of the fruit is 

 not so refreshing to the palate. They are always most delicious when they 

 have been cooked. In their unripe state they resemble in taste those 

 diminutive stunted apples gathered from Codlin-trees, which are called 

 'crumplings.' The larger berries are as big as the top of a man's thumb." 

 Our traveller, who, while staying at the house of a Lapland minister, was 

 seized with a fever, remarks, that in the evening two of the children came 

 into the room, bringing with them two or three gallons of Cloudberries, 

 which grew so abundantly near the house that it would have been easy to 

 gather bushels of the fruit. "Little," says this traveller, "did the author 

 dream of the blessed effects which 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 their mother, until at 

 last he perceived that his fever rapidly abated, and his spirits and appetite 

 were restored ; and when sinking under a disorder so obstinate that it 

 seemed to be 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 these berries." The 

 Laps make a jelly of Cloudberries by boiling them with fish, and the Swedes 

 preserve them with sugar in various ways. In the northern parts of the 



