226 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
Many prickles, and large bunches of white flowers, the 
petals of which are large and spreading, with a slight fra- 
grance at first, but soon becoming disagreeable. Fruit small, 
blood-red when ripe, with an orange-red pulp of a peculiar 
flavour. 
IcOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
CALYCIFLOR&. ROSACEA. 
RUBUS. (Bramsiz.) 
Generic Character. Calya five-cleft. Petals five. Fruit 
superior, or above the flower, consisting of several single-seeded 
juicy parts, placed upon a spongy receptacle. 
Rusus Fruticosus. Common Bramble, or Blackberry. 
Extremely common in thickets and hedges in most places. 
Its fruit is so well known that I need not describe the plant. 
Rusus 1p£us. Raspberry. Common in woods in the 
north, where the fruit is often gathered in quantities. The 
leaves are divided into three or five leaflets, very downy, 
and white beneath. Stem nearly erect, downy, and prickly, 
flowers drooping, petals as short as the calyx. 
There are thirteen species; but these two are common. 
