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R U B U S Chamaemorus.
Mountain Bramble, or Cloud-berry.
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1COSANDRIA Polygynia.
G en. C h a r. Cal. 5-cleft. Petals 5 . Berry fuperior,
compofed of feveral fingle-feeded grains.
Spec. Char. Leaves Ample, lobed. Stem without
prickles, bearing a Angle flower. Segments of
the calyx ovate.
S yn. Rubus Chamsemorus. Linn. Sp. PI. 708. Sm.
Fl. Brit. ^45. Hudf. 221. With. 471. Hull. i n .
Lightf 266. t. 13. ƒ. 2. FI. Dan. t. 1. Dickf H.
Sicc.fafc. 2. 8.
Chamaemorus. Rail Syn. 260. Ger. em. 1273.
W E have received this from the Rev. Mr. Harriman and
other friends in the north of England, where it grows, as well
as in Wales and Scotland, on the cloud-capped fummits of the
higheft mountains, “ whereupon,” fays Gerarde, who has
figured the plant twice ( 1273 anc* i 43°)j “ die people of the
' countrey have called them Cloud-berries.” The flowers appear
in June foon after the fnow has diflolved, and the berries
are fcarcely well ripened in Auguft before the plant is again
overwhelmed with its wintry covering. The fnow preferves
the fruit, and is even ufed by the Laplanders to keep it artificially
through the winter; for thofe people as well as the
Scottifli highlanders efteem the Cloud-berry one of their moft
grateful and ufeful fruits, efpecially on account of its long
duration. Its tafte is moderately acid and mucilaginous, with
fomethine; of the flavour of tamarinds.
The plant is of an elegant appearance, with a creeping root,
a fimple ftem, and plaited, mallow-like, but fmooth and
hardifh leaves. Flowers folitary, terminal, white; the male
having fliort abortive piftilla, and the female abortive ftamina.
We have not had an opportunity of verifying Dr. Solander’s
remark, fo often copied, that the two fexes fpring from one
common root. The berries are of a tawny or dull orange-
colour. Calyx inflexed; its fegments oval or elliptical.