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NAT. ORDER. 



Senticos(B. 



RUBUS IDiEUS. . RASPBERRY BUSH. 



Class XII. ICOSANDRIA. OrdcT V. POLYGNIA. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five-cleft. Berry composed of one-seeded ocini. 



Spe. Char. Leaves quinate, pinnate, and ternate, tomentose under- 

 neath. Petioles channelled. Stem prickly. 



The stems of the Raspberry are biennial, upright, branching, 

 three or four feet high, of a reddish color, and thickly covered with 

 very stiff bristles ; the leaves are rough, veined, serrated, downy on 

 the under side, and composed of five or three pairs of oval pinna?, ter- 

 minated by an odd one ; the Jlowers termmate the branches in panicles, 

 and appear in succession ; the calyx is divided into five oblong ex- 

 panding segments ; the corolla consists of five petals, which are up- 

 right, blunt, narrow, white, and inserted into the calyx ; the Jilamcnts 

 are numerous, somewhat shorter than the petals, fixed to the calyx, 

 and terminated with roundish compressed anthers ; the germcns are 

 numerous, and each supports a short capillary style, furnished with a 

 simple, permanent stigma; the J'ruit is a red berry, composed of sev- 

 eral roundish granulations, collected into a knob, which is convex 

 above, concave beneath, and placed upon a conical receptacle ; each 

 granulatio7i has one cell, containing an oblong seed. 



The Raspberry is a native of Europe, but has now become nat- 

 uralised to this country, growing spontaneously in the different states, 

 from Maine to Georgia, seeking moist situations, woods, hedges, rocky 

 mountains, and the most inaccessible waste places, flowering in May 



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