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prickles. Flowers solitary, white. Fruit large, black, sweet. 

 Common in barren sandy soils. May. 



*RUBUS SEMPERVIRENS. Evergreen Raspberry. 



Rubus sarmentoso-procumbens ; caule aculeolato ; 

 foliis ternatis, foliolis obovatis, serratis, nitidis, 

 sempervirentibus. 



Stem procumbent, covered with minute prickles, 

 leaves ternate, obovate, serrate, shining, evergreen. 



A small, trailing species, found in damp woods and swamps. 

 Stem woody, smooth, commonly covered with minute reflexed 

 prickles, as are also the petioles. Stipules lance'olate. Leaves 

 of the size of the strawberry, of a dark shining green, tapering 

 and retuse at base, unequally serrate. They last through the 

 winter and exhibit a dark or purplish appearance the ensuing 

 spring. Flowers few, in a sort of raceme, with alternate, slen- 

 der stalks. Calyx leaves ovate, acute, glabrous. Petals white, 

 oblong, distinct. Berries small, black, sour. July. 



RUBUS ODORATUS. L. Flowering Raspberry. 



Leaves simple, palmate ; stem unarmed, many leav- 

 ed, many flowered. L. 



A superb, flowering shrub, commonly cultivated. I have not 

 seen it growing wild in the immediate vicinity of Boston, though 

 it is plentiful at the distance of thirty or forty miles to the west- 

 ward. Leaves simple, large, mostly five lobed, serrate ; petioles 

 and peduncles hairy. Flowers large, purple, forming a sort of 

 corymb. Fruit dry. Flowers in June and after. 



RUBUS SAXATILIS. J\lx. Stone Raspberry. 



Herbaceous, pubescent ; leaves ternate, leafets rhom- 

 boidal, acute, cut-toothed, naked, the odd one petioled ; 

 flowers about three, with elongated pedicels. 



The stems of this species are annual, whereas those of most 

 ef the preceding are biennial, not flowering till the second year. 

 About a foot high, with white flowers On dry hills, Danvers 

 White mountains. June- 

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