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FIG. 355. Bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi), a trailing, shrubby plant with thick 

 evergreen, alternate leaves and whitish flowers in terminal racemes. The fruit is a globular, 

 reddish, berry -like drupe about the size of a pea, with a mealy, insipid pulp. A . alpina, grow- 

 ing in the Alpine summits of Maine and New Hampshire, develops a blackish drupe with a 

 juicy and edible pulp. Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



