Class XII. Order V. 138 



cles long, slender, mostly undivided, furnished with minute 

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

 Common in barren sandy soils. May. 



RUBUS ODORATUS. L. Flowering raspberry. 



Leaves simple, palmate ; vstem unarmed, many 

 leaved, 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 westward. Leaves simple, large, mostly five lobed, ser- 

 rate ; petioles and peduncles hairy. Flowers large, purple, 

 forming a sort of corymb. Fruit dry. Flowers in June and 

 after. 



152. FRAG ARIA. 



FRAGARIA VIRGINIANA. Ehr. Wild strawberry. 



Calyx of the fruit spreading ; hairs of the peti- 

 oles erect, of the peduncles appressed ; leaves 

 smooth above. Willd. 



The common wild strawberry is a very delicious fruit, and 

 when cultivated is inferior to few imported species. The ber- 

 ries ripen early, are of a light scarlet colour, exquisitely fla- 

 voured, but more soft and perishable than the other kinds. The 

 herbage is more smooth and even than in other species, the pe- 

 duncles shorter, so that the fruit is commonly concealed under 

 the leaves. Flowers white, appearing in May. 



Wild strawberries are frequently sour from the circum- 

 stance of their ripening in the shade among the high grass. 



153. COMARUM, 



COMARUM PALUSTRE. L, Marsh cinquefoiL 



A genus nearly related to the last, with only one species. 

 * Stem round, rising from one to two feet. Leafets three, five, or 



