[229] Vaccinium vitisidæa Linn. An abundant species; reaches its greatest perfection near the northern border of the forest.
[230] Empetrum nigrum Linn. The crowberry is very abundant about Fort Churchill and northward.
[231] Rubus chamæmorus Linn. The cloudberry or baked-apple berry is abundant throughout the country treated by Hearne.
[232] The northern red currant, Ribes rubrum Linn., and the black currant, Ribes hudsonianum Richardson, are species of wide distribution in the north.
[233] Apparently Hearne refers to Juniperus nana Willd., the dwarf juniper, since Richardson gives the same Indian name as applied by the Crees to this shrub. Granting this, Hearne's creeping pine is Juniperus sabina Linn., shrubby red cedar. Both species extend northward to the tree-limit.
[CP] The Indians call the Juniper-berry Caw-caw-cue-minick, or the Crowberry.
[CQ] The Oteagh-minick of the Indians, is so called, because it in some measure resembles a heart.
[234] Probably Fragaria canadensis Michx.
[235] Probably Rubus arcticus Linn. A pretty little plant, similar in distribution to the cloudberry.
[236] Vaccinium uliginosum Linn. A low blueberry of wide distribution. The fruit is excellent.