RED FRUIT 
GROUP IV 
Plant creeping or climbing. 
A^. B. — Cloudberry and the more familiar Wintergreen, or 
" Checkerberry," are included in this group {page J44) because 
their apparent stems are really upright branches of a horizontal 
stem. 
Nightshade. Bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara). Night- 
shade family. 
A branching, cHmbing or straggling perennial with somewhat 
woody base. Leaves egg-shaped to heart-shaped, the upper 
halberd-shaped, or with ears at the base of the leaf. Fruit oval 
berries in pendant clusters. Moist ground. 
Bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi). Heath family. 
A matted vine with delicate stems and thick evergreen leaves. 
Fruit red, berry-like, few in clusters. Known also as Bilberry. 
Sandy soil. Common in some localities, for example, on Cape 
Cod. 
Smooth-leaved Honeysuckle {Loniccra dioica). Honey- 
suckle family. 
A climbing or woody plant with smooth stem and opposite 
leaves, the upper united around the stem. Fruit a tightly 
packed terminal cluster of red ovoid berries one-fourth to one- 
third inch in diameter. Midsummer. 
Mountain Cranberry ( Vaccinium Vitis-Idcea, var. minus). 
Heath family. 
A Httle shrub with horizontal stem from which rise branches 
some inches high, bearing at the end little clusters of dark-red 
berries. The leaves are thick and evergreen, oval to inversely 
egg-shaped. Rocky ground. Coast of Maine and Labrador. 
This is shown by Femald to be the " Wine-berry " of the Norse- 
men, the northern limit of its growth locating the region of 
their landing on this continent. 
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