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glabrous or slightly pubescent along the veins underneath; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the terminal ones 3-5 cm long and 1-1.5 cm wide, sharply and simply serrate; 

 petioles slender, prickly. Flowering shoots very short; flowers about 2-2.5 cm across, 

 usually solitary, well above the leaves; pedicels slender, 7-10 cm long, prickly. Petals 

 obovate, obtuse. 



Southeastern United States; Mississippi, near Biloxi. There are no 

 cultivated varieties known. 



Rubus lucidus. Rydberg A''. .4m. F/. 22:479. 1913; BaileyC^)!^. //er6. 1:173. 1923- 

 Canes trailing, 1-2 m long, slender, terete, brown or reddish, with flattened, recurved 

 prickles but without bristles. Leaves mostly 5-foliolate, dark green and shining, glabrous 

 except on the midveins beneath, regular and simply serrate, leaflets lanceolate, acute; 

 petioles 2-4 cm long, prickly. Flowering shoots short, sparingly pubescent or glabrate, 

 with 3-foliolate leaves. Flowers corymbose, 2-6 together; pedicels slightly pubescent, 

 prickly; calyx tomentose, lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, white tomentose 

 inside; petals obovate, 12-15 r™^ long. Fruit elongate, 8-10 mm long, drupelets small and 

 rather dry. 



Southeastern United States; South Carolina to Florida, west to Missis- 

 sippi. ■ No cultivated variety is known of this species. 



Rubus continentalis. Bailey G^h/. Herb. 1:173. , 1923- 



R. car pinif alius. Rydheig in Small Fl. Southeast. U. S. sjg. 1913; not Whe. 1824, 

 nor Godron, nor Blox. 



R. hispidus subsp. (?) continentalis. Focke Spec. Rub. 3:86. 1914. 



Canes slender, trailing, 1-2 m long, more or less densely bristly and prickly, prickles 

 recurved, small. Leaves 5-foliolate, leaflets elliptic or elliptic-ovate, acute or obtuse at 

 both ends, 2-6 cm long, thin, glabrous on both sides, doubly serrate, teeth ovate, rather 

 blunt; petioles and midvein prickly. Flowers 1-4, pedicels slender, 3-7 cm long, prickly 

 and somewhat glandular-hispid. Calyx puberulous, lobes ovate-lanceolate; petals oval, 

 white, I cm long. Fruit elongate, 1-2 cm long; drupelets numerous, glabrous. 



Southern central United States; southern Illinois to Oklahoma, Texas, 

 and Louisiana. Not yet in cultivation. 



Series 5. Hispidi. Bailey Cewi. //er6. 1:173. 1923- 



Plants trailing on the ground ; canes terete, with niunerous, fine, retrorse bristles and 

 a few prickles or none. Leaves 3- to 5-foliolate. Flowering branches erect, 3-foliolate; 

 flowers corj'mbose, small. The Hispidi are of little importance as fruit plants and so far 

 scarcely offer promising features for futtu-e development. 



Rubus hispidus. Linnaeus S^^c. PI. 493. 1753; Csird Bush-Fr. 334. 1898; Bailey 

 Ev. Nat.Fruits 377, fig. 73. 1898; Gray New Man. 7th Ed. 492. i9ii;Rydberg N. Am, 

 Fl. 22:478. 1913; Focke S^ec. Rub. 3:84, (310). 1914; Bailey Stand. Cyc. Hort. 5:3032. 

 1916; Bailey Gent. Herb. 1:173. 1923- 



R. obovalis. Michaux F/. Bor. Am. 1:298. 1803. 



R. sempervirens. Bigelow Fl. Bost. 2d Ed. 201. 1824. 



