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, Ch R. foliis quinato-pinnatis tcrnaufquc, caulc aculeato, pencils 
canaliculars. 
THE ftems of the Rafpberry are biennial, rough, befet 
nes, and rife two or three feet in height : the leaves are i 
d, ferrated, downy 
d compofed of five or 
three pair of oval pinnae, terminated by an odd one : the flowers 
terminate the branches in pannicles, and appear in fucceflion: the 
calyx is divided into live oblong expanding fegments : the corolla 
confifts of five petals, which are upright, blunt, narrow, white, and 
inferted into the calyx : the filaments are numerous, fhorter than the 
petals, fixed to the calyx, and terminated with roundifh. comprefied 
antherae : the germens are numerous, and each fupports a fhort 
capillary flyle, furnifhed with a fimple permanent ftigma : the fruit is 
a red berry, compofed of feveral roundifh granulations, collected into 
a knob, which is convex above, concave beneath, and placed upon 
a conical receptacle : each granulation has one cell, containing an 
oblong feed. It is a native of Britain, ufually growing about woods, 
hedges, rocky mountains, and in moift fituations, producing its flowers 
in May and June. 
The Rafpberry is very commonly cultivated in our gardens, where 
we frequently obferve the varieties noticed above. The figure, which 
accompanies this defcription, is taken from a garden fpecimen, and 
confequently appears more luxuriant than when the Rafpberry is 
uncultivated ftate. This fruit has a pleafant 
found 
fweet tafte, accompanied with a peculiarly grateful fl , 
of which it is chiefly valued. Its virtues confift in allaying heat and 
thirit, and in promoting the natural excretions ; but it fcems lefs 
adapted to anfwer thefe purpofes than many of the other fummer 
fruit 
iome of which we have already noticed 
A grateful fyrup, prepared from the juice, is direded for officinal 
Ufc by the London Pharmacopoeia. 
ROSA CANINA 
