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used by the Laplanders as well as by the Scottish Highlaiidors for that ptiqtose. By 

 Northern nations the Cloudberry is esteemed as a most grateful and useful fruit. 

 Its tiv<ite is pleasant, superior to that of wild strawberries, and very delicious when 

 boiled with sugar into a preserve. The Lajilanders 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 ben-ies 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 efiects 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 Eubus Chamctmorus. 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 daUy a fresh supjily, which 

 was as often blended with cream and sugar by the hands of his mother, until, at last, 

 he perceived that his fever raj)idly 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 plan 

 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 II.— R U B U S SAXATILIS. Li7m. 

 Plate CCCCXLI. 



Eootstock 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, ternatc ; leaflets thin, green below, rhomboid-oval, the 

 lateral ones ovate, coarsely and irregularly serrate ; the serratures 

 Avith rounded margins. Stipules free, strapshaped - lanceolate, 

 riowers few, in a terminal corymbose cyme. Petals strapshaped- 

 oblanceolate, narrower than the sepals, erect. Fruit not separating 



