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ROSACEJE. (ROSE FAMILY.) 
much less glandular; flowers more corymbose, with leafy bracts; 
petals roundish. Var. 2. humifItsus: trailing, smaller; peduncles 
few-flowered. — Borders of thickets, &c., common. May, June: the 
pleasant large fruit ripe in Aug. and Sept. — Plant very variable in 
size and aspect; the stems usually tall and furrowed. 
8. R. Canadensis, L. (Low Blackberry. Dewberry.) 
Shrubby, extensively trailing, slightly prickly ; leaflets 3 (or pedately 
5-7), oval or ovate-lanceolate, mostly pointed, thin, nearly smooth, 
sharply cut-serrate ; flowers racemed, with leaf-like bracts. (R. tri- 
viklis, Pursh , Bigel., fyc. ; not of Michx , which is a Southern species.) 
Bare rocky or gravelly soil, common. May ; ripening its very large 
and sweet fruit earlier than No. 7. 
9. R. hispidtis, L. (Running Swamp Blackberry.) Stems 
slender , somewhat shrubby, extensively procumbent, beset with small 
prickles turned backward; leaflets 3 (or rarely pedately 5), smooth , 
thickish, mostly persistent, obovate, obtuse, coarsely serrate, entire 
towards the base; peduncles leafless , several-flowered , often bristly; 
flowers small. (R. obovalis, Michx., R. sempervirens and R. setosus, 
Bigelow.) — Wet woods, common. June. — Flowering stems or 
branches short, ascending, the sterile forming long runners. Fruit of 
a few large grains, red or purple, sour. 
10. B. cuneifolius, Pursh. (Sand Blackberry.) Shrub¬ 
by, low, upright , armed with stout recurved prickles; branchlets and 
lower surface of the leaves whitish-woolly ; leaflets 3-5, wedge-obo- 
vate, thickish, serrate towards the apex; peduncles 2 - 4 -flowered; 
petals large. — Sandy woods, New York and southward near the 
coast. May-July, ripening its well-flavored black fruit in Aug. 
Stems 1° — 3P high. 
Tribe m. ROSEiE. The Rose Tribe. 
17. BOS A, Tourn. Rose. 
Calyx-tube urn-shaped, contracted at the mouth, becoming fleshy 
in fruit; the lobes imbricated in the bud. Petals 5, inserted, with 
the numerous stamens, into the edge of the hollow thin disk that 
lines the calyx-tube and bears the numerous pistils over its whole 
inner surface. Styles nearly included : ovaries hairy, becoming 
bony achenia in fruit. — Shrubby and prickly, with odd-pinn ate 
leaves, and stipules cohering with the petiole : stalks, foliage, 
&c., often bearing aromatic glands. (The ancient Latin name, 
from the Celtic rhos , red.) 
* Truly wild Roses. Leaflets smooth, at least the upper surface, not 
clothed with fragrant glands. 
