154 Rubus villosius, 
ing, irregularly gibbous, perennial, woody, and of a reddish-brown 
| colour, imparting a madder-brown or claret colour to water boiled 
on it. The stems are biennial, from three to seven feet high, weak, 
somewhat shrubby, of a reddish-brown colour, armed with large 
prickles. The smaller branches and new shoots are more slender, 
herbaceous, greenish, with here and there a tinge of brown or red, 
and also covered with prickles and fine hair. The leaves are in five’s 
and three’s, oval, acuminate, finely and sharply serrate, villous on 
both sides, and soft to the fingers, strongly veined and varying in 
size..The petioles are prickly, and also covered with hair. The 
flowers are large, white, borne in terminal panicles or racemes, con- 
sisting of a five-petalled corolla and numerous stamens. The fila- 
ments are very slender, and the anthers small. The fruit is first 
green, then red, and, when full ripe, of a deep shining crow-black, 
and deliciously flavoured when suffered to ripen on the bushes. 
_ The blackberry is every where found in our states, by way sides, 
in old fields, along the margins of stone quarries, &c. delighting in 
dry arid soils, It flowers from May to July, and ripens its fruit in 
August. 
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES. 
Popular confidence in the medicinal virtues of the blackberry, 
has induced me to introduce it in this work; and popular partiality 
