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R0SACE2E. (ROSE FAMILY.) 
ted receptacle. — Fields and rocky places, common northward. April 
-June. — Scapes commonly shorter than the leaves, which are of a 
firm texture. Fruit roundish-ovoid. 
2. F. vesca, L. Achenia superficial on the conical or hemispher¬ 
ical fruiting receptacle (not sunk in pits). — Fields and rocks, common 
and indigenous. — Leaves thinner; the wild fruit often long and 
slender. 
15. DALIBARDA, L. Dalibarda. 
Calyx deeply 5 - 6-parted, 3 of the divisions larger and toothed. 
Petals 5, sessile, deciduous. Stamens many. Ovaries 5-10, be¬ 
coming nearly dry seed-like drupes: styles terminal, deciduous. 
— Low perennials, with creeping and tufted stems, and roundish 
heart-shaped crenate leaves on slender petioles. Flowers 1-2, 
white, on scape-like peduncles. (Named in honor of Dalibarda a 
French botanist.) 
1- O. re pens, L. Depressed, in tufts, downy; petals spreading 
in the flower, converging and inclosing the fruit. — Wooded banks, 
common northward. June-Aug. — Leaves much like those of a 
stemless Violet. 
16. RUBITS, L. Bramble. 
Calyx 5-parted, without bractlets. Petals 5, deciduous. Sta¬ 
mens numerous. Achenia usually many, collected on a conical or 
oblong spongy or succulent receptacle, becoming small drupes. 
styles nearly terminal.—Perennial herbs, or somewhat shrubby 
plants, with white (rarely reddish) flowers, and edible fruit. (Name 
from the Celtic rub , red, from the color of the fruit of many spe¬ 
cies.) 
§ 1. Fruity or collective mass of drupesy somewhat hemispherical , and 
falling off whole from the dry receptacle when ripe , or rarely of few 
grains which fall separately. (Raspberry.) 
* Leaves simple: flowers large: prickles none. 
1. R. odoratus, L. (Purple Flowering Raspberry ) Stem 
shrubby; branches , stalksy and calyx bristly with glandular clammy 
hairs; leaves 3—5-lobed, the lobes all pointed and minutely toothed, 
the middle one prolonged j peduncles many-flowered ; calyx-l°b eS 
tipped with a narrow appendage as long as themselves j petals round 
edy purple rose-color ; fruit flat, reddish. — Rocky banks, common: 
often cultivated. June - Aug. — Stem 4° high. Leaves 4' - 8' broad. 
Flowers very showy, 2' broad. 
