Class XII. Order V. 199 



rhomboid-lanceolate, acute at ba?e, smooth, or with the veins 

 pubescent underneath, unequally serrate, the odd one peti- 

 oled. Stipules long and linear. Flowers in racemes with 

 bristly pedicels. Petals white, linear-obovate, distant. Fruit 

 red, ripening late. In a swamp at Sudbury. June. Received 

 also from Dr. Payne, Montreal. 



RUBUS VILLOSUS. Tall Blackberry. 



Bigelow, Medical Botany, PI. sxxviii. 



Pubescent, bristly and prickly ; leaves in threes or 

 fives, leafets ovate, acuminate, serrate, with the petioles 

 prickly ; racemes naked, about twenty flowered ; petals 



lance-ovate. 







This shrub has a tall, branching, prickly stem, more or 'less 

 furrowed and angular. Leaves mostly in threes, on a channelled, 

 hairy petiole. A few are solitary and some quinate. Leafets 

 ovate, acuminate, sharply and unequally serrate, covered with 

 scattered hairs above, and with a thick, soft pubescence beneath. 

 The terminal leafet is pedicelled, the two side ones sessile. 

 The petiole and back of the middle rib are commonly armed 

 with short recurved prickles. The flowers grow in erect ra- 

 cemes, with a hairy prickly stalk. The pedicels are slender, 

 an inch or two in length, covered with glandular pairs, and sup- 

 ported by lanceolate bractes. Calyx divided into five ovate, 

 concave, hairy segments, ending in an acuminate point or a lan- 

 ceolate leafet. Petals five, white, ovate or oblong, concave, 

 contracted into a short claw at base. Stamens very numerous 

 with roundish anthers and slender white filaments. Germs nu- 

 merous, covering a conic central receptacle. Styles capillary, 

 arising from the sides of the germs, persistent. Fruit a black, 

 shining compound berry, formed of pulpy acini attached to the 

 receptacle, each containing a single oblong seed. Road sides. 

 Flowers in June. Fruit very pleasant, ripe in August and Sep- 

 tember. Perennial. 



* RUBUS FRONDOSUS. Leafy Raspberry. 



R. caule aculeate, erecto ; foliis ternatis, quina- 

 tisve, pube simplici ; racemo folioso, sub-decemflo- 

 ro, petalis orbiculatis. 



