90 BRITISH . The vine, generally called in maiden hair, (adianthum capillus veneris: Linn.) is abundant, growing usually along the sides of dry hollows, or among old fallen trees, but always in the shade. The leaves of it are infused as tea ; its berry affords a delicious jelly, from which the once celebrated " sirop de capillaire" took its name. A root, called, from its colour, blood-root, and from its taste, chocolate root, is boiled in water, and the decoction used by the Indians as a certain remedy for the most violent attack of cholic. It is also taken by them to remove dysentery, &c.; and it alleviates acute pain as readily as opium, without possessing the pernicious qualities of that drug. A variety of herbs and roots are used by the inha¬ bitants instead of tea, and many of them are grateful to the taste, and probably as conducive to health as the Oriental shrub. Many varieties of wild fruits abound in . Vines are discovered growing indigenous in Canada and Nova Scotia . Cranberries are plen¬ tiful, uncommonly fine, and as large as cherries in England . Raspberries and strawberries grow natu¬ rally in astonishing abundance ; also, whortleberries and blueberries. Black and red currants, goose¬ berries, and two or three descriptions of cherries, grow wild. The fruit called Indian pear, is of the most delicious flavour. Juniper-berries, in many places, are very abundant. Hazel-nuts grow wild. There are many kinds of grasses indigenous to the