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CROWBERRY, or CRAKEBERRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CROWBERRY, or CRAKEBERRY

CROWBERRY, or CRAKEBERRY , the See also:

ENGLISH

English name for a See also:

low-growing See also:

heath-like See also:

SHRUB

shrub, found on heaths and rocks in See also:

Scotland, See also:

Ireland and mountainous parts of See also:

England. It is known botanic-ally as Empetrum nigrum, and has slender, wiry, spreading branches covered with See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short, narrow, stiff Ieaves, the margins of which are recurved so as to See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a hollow See also:

CYLINDER (Gr. KvAwSpos, from KvXivaety, to roll)

cylinder concealing the hairy under See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of the leaf—a See also:

DEVICE

device to avoid excessive loss of See also:

WATER

water from the See also:

LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf under the exposed conditions in which the plant grows. The See also:

minute See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers are succeeded by See also:

black, edible, See also:

berry-like fruits, one-See also:

FOURTH

fourth to one-third of an See also:

INCH (O. Eng. ynce from Lat. uncia, a twelfthpart; cf. " ounce," and see As)

inch in See also:

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter. The plant has a wide See also:

DISTRIBUTION (Lat. distribuere, to deal out)

distribution, occurring in suitable localities throughout the See also:

north temperate See also:

ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

zone, and on the See also:

ANDES

Andes of See also:

South See also:

AMERICA

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