RQSACEJE. 101 RUBUS. 



usually of a pure while, but often, in the Bumerous varieties, ting-ed with the 

 innst delicate blush. ' '''/"'^e Garden Rose. 



17. R. BURGUNDI'ACA. 



Dwarf; arms nearly equal ; Icnfrts riirid. ovate, acute, finely serrate ; sepals 

 ovate. Europe. Shrub a foot high, well known for its diminutive flowers, 

 which are about an inch in diameter, often less, of a purple hue, fragrant. 



Burgundy Rose. 



18. R. I'ndica. 



Leaflets elliptical, acuminate, smooth, crenate, serrate, glaucous beneath ; 

 ovaries 40—50. East Indies. A shrub of lofty growth. Stem Jo— 20 feet 

 high, armed witli scattered, strong, sharp, hooUed prickles. Leayes of a deep, 

 shining green above, paler beneath, of about 5 leaflets. Flowers common 

 size, flesh-color, but varying in the numerous varieties, through every tint of 

 pink and carnation. Ca'lyx leafy, pinnate or jagged. Blush Clunese Ruse. 



19. R, PENDULI'NA. 



Unarmed ; fruit long, pendulous ; peduncles hispid ; leaflets numerous ; 

 stem colored. Native at the South. Stem 5— G feet high, smooth, dark, red, 

 bushy, and has the peculiar distinction of being without a thorn. Leaflets 

 9—13, elliptical, large, smooth. Flowers crimson or purple. Tkornless Rose. 



This beautiful genus includes, according to Profssir Lindley, about 100 

 species; but the varieties produced by cultivation amount to near a thousand. 

 These are obtained from the seed, and their number is annually increasing. 

 The usual mode of propagation is by layers. 



S . R U B U S . 

 C.aljx spreading, 5-parted; petals 5, deciduous; stamens 

 numerous, inserted into the border of the disk ; ovaries many, 

 2-ovuled, one of them abortive ; achenia pulpy, drupaceous, 

 agi^regaled into a compound berry. 



Celtic rub, red, the color of the fruit of some of the species. — Perennial, 

 half shrubby plants, witli biennial stems, usually with prickles. Inflorescence 

 centrifugal. Fruit eatable. 



* Blackberries. 



Fruit inseparable from the juicy, deciduous receptacle. 



1. R. VILLO'SUS. 



Pubescent, viscid and prickly; stein angular; leaflets in 3s or 5s, ovate, 

 acuminate, serrate, hairy on both sides ; stem and petioles prickly ; cw/y.r sliort, 

 acuminate ; racemes loose, naked, about 20-flowered. A tall, branching, thor- 

 ny shrub, 4 — 6 feet high, in pastures and hedges, well known for its delicious 

 fruit. Stem furrowed, armed with sharp prickles. Leaflets rather large, 

 with scattered hairs above, and a soft pubescence beneath. The terminal one 

 has a long foot-stalk, the others very short. Pedicels slender, flowers white, 

 in an erect raceme. Fruit a compounded beir}', of a shining black, ripe in 

 Aug. and Sept., abundant and very sweet. Few persons, in the interior of N. 

 England, are unacquainted with the pastime of gathering blackberries ia 

 their native wilds and thickets. Jn. Jfgh Blackberry. 



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