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Senticosce. 



RUBUS STRIGOSUS. RED RASPBERRY, 



Class XII. IcosANDRiA. Order V. Polygnia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, five-cleft, inferior. Petals, five. Fruit, com- 

 posed of many one-seeded juicy acines, on a dry receptacle. 



Spe. Char. Leaves, unarmed, rigidly hisped. Leasts, three or 

 pinnate-quinate, oval, at the base obtuse, acumate, marked with 

 lines, and white downy beneath. Peduncles and Calyx, 

 hisped. 



The ste7n of this species of raspberry, is upright, branching, of 

 a pale red color, thickly covered with stiff bristles, and rises from 

 three to five feet in height; the leaves stand in one or two pairs, 

 supported on long slender hairy footstalks, with an odd one at the 

 end : they are wrinkled edged with acute teeth, marked with par- 

 allel lines on the upper surface, of a silvery whiteness beneath, and 

 terminated by long slender points ; the Jhwers are white and dis- 

 posed in little nodding clusters, succeeded by a profusion of deep 

 scarlet red berries. It flowers in June and sometimes again in Sep- 

 tember, producing a second crop of fruit, when the season oermits. 



The raspberry is found throughout nearly all the northern and 

 southern States, growing in dry waste lands, and on stoney hills. 

 It is very abundant in the New England Statss, growing on the 

 mountain sides and among; the rocks. 



Ruhiis ardkus. Dwarf crimson Bramble. This is rather a creep- 

 ing plant, never rising more than eight or ten inches high ; stems herba- 

 ceous, smooth, unarmed ; leaves trifoliate, almost glabrous ; leaflets 



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