musqua-meena

Updated: May 3, 2025

The American guelder rose, whose fruit so strongly resembles the cranberry, is also common. There is also a berry of a bluish white colour, the produce of the white cornel tree, which is named musqua-meena, bear-berry, because these animals are said to fatten on it.

John Franklin - Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1