at'Bus, iCOSANDRIA, POLYGYNTA. 489 



and rhombic-ianceolatc, thin, entire below, incisely senate 

 above, nearly smooth; terminal leaflet on a short petiilej 

 kracts lanceolate, entire, ciliate. Peduncles terminal, Ire- 

 quently only 1 -flowered, Ca/yx smoothish ; sej^ments linear- 

 lanceolate, very acute, reflexed. Petals oblong;, white, "icarccly 

 as long as the calyx. Fruit small, dark red, wch tasted. 

 ^Iab. In sandy woods and in swamps. Orange county, Nc-w- 

 York. Deei field, Sec. Massachusetts. Coo ley and Hitch- 

 cock. On the Catskill Mountains, N. Y, Kncvela, In 

 the cedar swamp near New-Durham, New-Jersey* June. 



6. R. occidentalis L. : branches and petioles glaucous and 

 aculeate ; leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate, acummate, some- 

 what lobed, coarsely serrate, hoary-tomentoso beneath ; pe- 

 tioles terete ; racomes terminal. W ill d. Spec. II. p. 1082, 

 Pursh FLl.^.ZAl. B ig. Bost. fi, }'2l. Elliott Sh 

 I. p. 568. W a It. Car. p. 149. G ro iu Virg, 78, DilL 

 Elth. t. 247. f. 31 9. Cold, Koveb. 1 1 9. 



Stems long and slender, curved, Covered with a fine glaucous 

 powder, which is easily rubbed oif. Prickles strong and re- 

 curved. Lea-ves all ternate ; leaflets very white and hoary 

 beneath, incisely and unequally serrate ; tlie lateral ones fre- 

 quently with a deep notch or lobe on the outside j petioles pu- 

 bescent and somewhat prickly. Flowers in terminal leafy ra- 

 cemes. Ca ^yjT tomentose ; segments ovate, acuminate Petals 

 ovate, white, sometimes emarginate. Fruit roundish, biack» 

 and dark purple, sweet and well-flavoured. 



Hab. In rocky woods and in stony fields. May — August. 



Wild Rasfiherry. — Thimble berry, 



7. R. his'pidns L.: sarmentose-procumbent ; stems, pe- 

 tioles, and peduncles very hispid, With rigid bristles ; leaves 

 ternate-, leaflets incisely serrate, naked ; the intermediate 

 one pedicellate* W i t UL Spec. II. p. 1083. Pursh Fl» 

 I. p. 347. 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. June. Muhlenberg. 



8. Ro trivialis M i c h. : sarmentose-procumbent; pe- 

 tioles and peduncles aculeate-hispid, with the prirkles re- 

 curved; stipules subulate ; leaves ternate and qjinate, oval, 

 acute, unequally serrote ; pedicels solitary, elongated. .M ich, 

 Fl. p. 296. Purs h Fl. I. p. 347. B i g. Bost. p. 122. 

 Elliott Sk. I. p. 569. K. procumbens M u h I. Cat. p. 52. 



Stems procumbent) slender, running many feet along the ground, 

 armed with fine recurved prickles, shooting up short erect 

 branches at intervals. Leaves generally ternate, subsemper- 

 virent ; leaflets scarcely more than an inch long, nearly smooth, 

 and a little shining, unequally and coarsely serrate, obtns-ly 

 cuneaie at the base ; the terminal leaflet petiolate. Fl.iv.rz 

 few, terminal, somewhat corymbose by the elongation of ihc 

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