A492 ORD. XXVII. Senticose. 
RUBUS IDEUS. RASPBERRY BUSH. 
SYNONYMA. Rubus ideus.. Pharm. Lond. Rubus ideus 
spinosus fructu rubro. J. Bauh. Hist. vol. ti. p. 59.  Raii Hist. 
p. 1640. Synup. p. 467. Rubus caule spinoso, subrecto, foliis 
_ quinatis et ternatis, subtus tomentosis, fructibus hirsutis. 
Hail. Stirp. Helv. no. 1108, Rubus ideus. Gerard, Emac. p. 
1272. Park. Theat. p. 557. Huds. Ang. p.219. Lightf. Scot. 
p. 263. . Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. 525. Flor. Dan. 788. 
« Red Raspberry. #® White Raspberry. » Smooth Raspberry. 
Aiton, Hort. Kew. = 
Class Icosandria. Ord. Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 632. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus. Petala. 5. Bacca composita: acinis 
monospermia, 
Sp. Ch. R. foliis quinato-pinnatis ternatisque, caule aculeato, 
petiolis canaliculatis, 
THE stems of the Raspberry are biennial, rough, beset with 
spines, and rise two or three feet in height: the leaves are rough, 
veined, serrated, downy on the underside, and composed of five 
or three pair of oval pinnz, terminated by an odd one: the 
flowers terminate the branches in pannicles, and appear in suc- 
cession: the calyx is divided into five oblong expanding seg- 
ments: the corolla consists of five petals, which are upright, 
blunt, narrow, white, and inserted into the calyx: the filaments 
are numerous, shorter than the petals, fixed to the calyx, and 
terminated with roundish compressed anthere: the germens are 
numerous, and each supports a short capillary style, furnished 
with a simple permanent stigma: the fruit is a red berry, com- 
posed of several roundish granulations, collected into a knob, 
