A great variety of willows occur on the banks of the streams and the hazel is met with sparingly in the woods.
The sugar maple, elm, ash, and the arbor vitae,* termed by the Canadian voyagers cedar, grow on various parts of the Saskatchewan but that river seems to form their northern boundary.

Two kinds of prunus also grow here, one of which,** a handsome small tree, produces a black fruit having a very astringent taste whence the term choke-cherry applied to it.

The Crees call it tawquoymeena, and esteemed it to be when dried and bruised a good addition to pemmican.

The other species*** is a less elegant shrub but is said to bear a bright red cherry of a pleasant sweet taste.

Its Cree name is passeeaweymeenan, and it is known to occur as far north as Great Slave Lake.
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