RED FRUIT 
Cloudberry (Rubus Chamcemorus) . Rose family. 
A creeping stem with upright branches. Heart-shaped leaves, 
lobed and toothed. The solitary, edible fruit resembles a rasp- 
berry. Swamps, northward. 
Partridge Berry {Mitchella repens). Madder family. 
A delicate ground vine six inches to one foot long. Leaves 
opposite, egg-shaped, shining, evergreen, with stalks. Fruit a 
double (two-cored) berry persisting through the winter. 
Cranberry ( Vaccinium macrocarpon) . Heath family. 
A low vine with slender stem, giving ofF upright branches, 
several inches long, with oval leaves not over one-half inch long. 
Fruit a sour berry about three-fourths inch in diameter. Bogs. 
Autumn. Small Cranberry ( V. Oxycoccus) is similar but with 
more delicate stems, shorter branches and leaves not over one- 
third inch long. Fruit not over one-half inch in diameter. 
Wintergreen {Gaultheria procumhens) . Heath family. 
Apparently little shrubs a few inches high, in reahty branches 
rising from an underground stem. The evergreen oval leaves 
are obscurely toothed. Fruit generally a few berries, pendant, 
axillary, on short stalks, globular, five-celled, each cell contain- 
ing many seeds. Autumn. 
PARTRIDGE BERRY 
[MitcheJk repens) 
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