But here the snow was not yet dissolved, the ground was still bound by the frost, the herbage had scarce begun to spring, and the crowberry bushes were just beginning to blossom.
"Pioneers in Canada"
Sir Harry Johnston
There he paused a moment, to look over the island, treeless save for dwarf willows six inches high and a ground-dwelling form of crowberry.
"The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries"
Francis Rolt-Wheeler