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email laciniate leaves near the middle. Radical leaves numerous. Flowers at 

 first nodding. Calyx purple. Petals yellowish white. Three-flowered Avens. 



6. G. Peckii : somewhat hairy ; stem paniculately branched above, 

 several-flowered, scarcely leafy; radical leaves lyrate-pinnate ; the terminal 

 leafet very large, rdundish reniform, somewhat truncate at base ; lateral 

 ones minute ; petals obovate-roundish, twice as long as the ovate-triangular 

 segments of the calyx. Sieversia Peckii R. Broion. 



White Mountains. N. H. Prof. Peck. July, Aug. %. — Stem a foot or more 

 high, with 3 or 4 small sessile incised leaves. Flowers terminal and solitary at 

 the end of each branch or peduncle, yellow, middle-sized. Peck's Avens. 



5. COMAROPSIS. Rick— Dry Strawberry. 



(From the Greek, Koixapog, the ancient name o( a, strawberry, and o\pis, appear- 

 ance ; on account of its resemblance to the strawberry.) 



Calyx with the tube turbinate, the limb 5 -cleft, not bracted. 

 Petals 5, without claws. Stamens numerous. Capsule small, 

 with an elongated filiform style at the apex. Achenia 2 — 6, 

 dry, not united at base. 



C. fragarioicles D. C. : leaves radical, ternate ; leafets broad wedgeform, 

 toothed and incised; scapes 3 — 5-flowered ; petals much larger than the 

 segments of the calyx ; carpels hairy. Dalibarda fragarioides Mich. 

 Pursh. Waldsteinia fragarioides Torr. tf* Gr. 



Shady woods. Can. to Geor. May. %-. — Root creeping. Scape 3 — 4 inches 

 high, with a small leafy bract below the middle. Leaves on long petioles. 

 Flowers yellow. Dry Strawberry. 



6, RUBUS, Li7in. — Raspberry and Blackberry. 

 (Said to be from the Latin ruber, red.) 



Calyx concave or fiattish at base, naked, 5-parted. Petals 

 5, deciduous. Stamens numerous, inserted into the border of 

 the disk. Berry composed of many pulpy carpels aggregated 

 on a spongy receptacle, persistent or deciduous. 



^ 1. Berry concave beneath and falling away f ram the dry receptacle when 

 ripe. (Raspberry.) 



* Leaves simple. 



1. R. odoratus Linn. : hispid with glandular hairs ; stem erect, branched ; 

 leaves large, 3 — 5-lobed ; the lobes acute or acuminate, unequally serrate ; 

 peduncles many-flowered, compound ; sepals long, acuminate, shorter than 

 the obovate-roundish petals. 



Rocky places. Can. to Geor. June. T2. — Stem 3 — 4 feet high. Flmoers 

 large, purple. Frxiit broad and flat, yellowish or red when ripe, scanty, but 

 well-flavored. It is often abortive. Flowering Raspberry. 



2. R. Chamamorus Linn.: dioecious; stem creeping at base, simple, ]- 

 flowered, somewhat pubescent, unarmed ; leaves cordate-reniform, plicate, 

 5-lobed, senate, the lobes rounded ; sepals ovate, obtuse, shorter than the 

 spreading obovate petals. 



