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Bearberry

a small, red-fruited plant of the blueberry kind. The ordinary bearberry grows in northern blueberry countries everywhere,--in Siberia, northern Europe, and North America. It is a favorite berry with the common bear. Some thirty other species of bearberry are found, chiefly in North and Central America. One, the Nevada bearberry, grows in the haunts of the grizzly bear, illustrating the principle that certain plants and animals are found together. Change your berry and you change your bear.

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