CLASS XII. ORDER III.] RUBUS. 731 



English Botany, t. 1585.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 412.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 252.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 95. 



i?oo^ woody, slender, branched, creeping. <S'<em erect, herbaceous, 

 simple, round, somewhat angular and downy, without prickles, and 

 mostly bearing a solitary terminal flower. Leaves with the common 

 footstalk downy, slightly channeled above. Leajlets three, ovate, 

 coarsely and obtusely serrated, a smooth cheerful green above, pale, 

 and somewhat downy beneath, and rough, with elevated ribs. Stipules 

 ovate, ribbed. Flowers solitary, one or two large for the size of the 

 plant, a beautiful pink. Calyx downy, with ovate lanceolate spreading 

 segments. Petals ovate oblong, emarginate. Stamens with thick 

 club-shaped ^/arnen^i. Fruit "of several large grains, of a purplish 

 amber colour, partaking of the flavour of the Raspberry and Straw- 

 berry, highly fragrant." 



Habitat. — Rocky mountainous parts of the Isle of Mull. — Dr, 

 Walker. Ben-y-glo, above Blair, Scotland. — Mr. Cotton. But not 

 now found in either of these stations. 



Perennial ; flowering in June. 



The fruit of this species is said to be of a most delicious flavour, 

 but it is so impatient of removal from its pure native air in lofty 

 alpine regions, as to become barren by cultivation in our gardens. 

 Linnaeus speaks of it during his Lapland journey as a beneficent plant, 

 the vinous nectar of whose berries frequently recruited his spirits when 

 almost prostrate with hunger and fatigue. He further tells us that 

 the people in Nordland make syrups, jellies, and wine of its berries, not 

 only for their own use, but to send as presents to their friends at 

 Stockholm, esteeming them dainties of the choicest kind. 



3. Leaves simple. 



14. R. Chamce'morusy Linn. (Fig. 828.) Cloudberry. Stem erect, 

 downy, simple, without prickles ; leaves few, simple, lobed ; flowers 

 solitary, disBcious. 



English Botany, t. 716. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 413. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 252. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 9b. 



Root somewhat woody, branched, and spreading. Stem herbaceous, 

 erect, or ascending, from two to four or six inches high, angular, 

 smooth, or downy, simple, and mostly bearing a single terminal flower. 

 Leaves not very numerous, with stout channeled downy footstalks, 

 roundish, heart-shaped, plaited, five lobed, and unequally serrated, 

 rugose, dark yellowish green above, smooth, or slightly hairy, paler, 

 with prominent ribs, and more downy beneath. Stipules roundish 

 ovate, obtuse, veined. Flowers large, white, dioecious, on a long 

 downy footstalk. Calyx segments oblong, acute, more or less dis- 

 tinctly ribbed, and downy externally, smooth within. Petals elliptic, 

 ovate, spreading. Fruit large, a cluster of large oblong orange-red 

 granules, of an agreeable flavour, and much esteemed. 



