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_[10], termed by the Canadian voyagers _cedar_, grow on various parts of the Saskatchawan; but that river seems to form their northern boundary.

Two kinds of prunus also grow here, one of which[11], 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 _tawquoy-meena_, and esteemed it to be when dried and bruised a good addition to pemmican.

The other species[12] is a less elegant shrub, but is said to bear a bright red cherry, of a pleasant sweet taste.