GENUS 28. 



ROSE FAMILY. 



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4. Rubus strigosus Michx. Wild Red Raspberry. Fig. 2291. 



Rubus strigosus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 297. 1803. 

 Rubus idaeus var. strigosus Maxim. Bull. Acad. St. 



Petersb. 17: 161. 1872. 



Stems shrubby, biennial, branched, 3-6 high, 

 usually densely clothed with weak glandular bris- 

 tles, or the older stems with small hooked prickles. 

 Stipules narrow, deciduous ; leaves petioled, pin- 

 nately 3-5-foliolate, rarely simple and 3-lobed ; leaf- 

 lets ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, sharply and 

 irregularly serrate or slightly lobed, rounded at the 

 base, i '-3' long, whitish-pubescent beneath; inflores- 

 cence terminal and axillary, racemose or paniculate, 

 loose ; pedicels slender, curving in fruit ; flowers 

 4"-6" broad ; petals white, ascending, about equal- 

 ling the spreading acuminate, mostly hispid, velvety 

 sepals ; fruit elongated-hemispheric, light red, rarely 

 white. 



In dry or rocky situations, Newfoundland and Lab- 

 rador to British Columbia, south in the Alleghanies to 

 North Carolina, and in the Rocky Mountains to New 

 Mexico. Ascends to 5500 ft. in North Carolina. The _ 



original of the Cuthbert and Hansall raspberries. Mul- A '//^~ s yrov & Y 



berry. May-July. Fruit ripe July-Sept. .S&*^/L^-S ^ "% t 2 



Northern races closely resemble the Old World Rubus 

 idaeus L. 



5. Rubus neglectus Peck. Purple Wild Rasp- 

 berry. Fig. 2292. 



Rubus neglectus Peck, Rep. Reg. Univ. N. Y. 22 : 53. 



1869. 

 Rubus strigosus X occidentalis Aust. Bull. Torr. Club i : 



31. 1870. 



Intermediate between the preceding species and the 

 next, probably originating as a hybrid between 

 them. Stems usually elongated, recurved and root- 

 ing at the tip, glaucous, sparingly bristly and prickly; 

 leaflets ovate, sharply and irregularly incised-serrate, 

 very white-pubescent beneath, i'-3'long; inflorescence 

 corymbose, rather compact, terminal and often axil- 

 lary; pedicels erect or ascending even in fruit; flow- 

 ers 4"-s" broad ; petals white, erect ; fruit nearly 

 hemispherical, dark-red or purple (yellowish in a 

 cultivated form). 



In dry or rocky soil, yermont to Ontario, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Ohio. The original of the Carolina, Gladstone 

 and other raspberries. June-July. Fruit ripe July-Aug. 



6. Rubus occidentalis L. Black Raspberry. 



Thimble-berry. Fig. 2293. 

 Rubus occidentalis L. Sp. PI. 493. 1753. 

 Rubus idaeus var. americanus Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2 : 



196. 1825. 



Very glaucous, stems cane-like, recurved, often 

 rooting at the tip, sometimes io-i2 long, spar- 

 ingly armed with small hooked prickles, rarely 

 slightly glandular-bristly above. Stipules setaceous, 

 deciduous; leaves pinnately 3-f oliolate (rarely 5-f olio- 

 late) ; leaflets ovate, acuminate, coarsely incised- 

 serrate, very white-pubescent beneath; flowers as in 

 the preceding species; inflorescence corymbose, com- 

 pact, usually only terminal ; pedicels short, ascending 

 or erect in fruit; fruit purple-black (rarely yellow), 

 depressed-hemispheric. 



New Brunswick to Quebec, Ontario, Georgia and Mis- 

 souri. Ascends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. The original of 

 the Gregg, Hilborn and other raspberries. May-June. 

 Fruit ripe July. Called also scotch-cap and black-cap. 

 Purple raspberry. Black-berry. 



Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim., the wine-berry, of 

 Japan, a densely glandular species, has locally escaped from cultivation. 



