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The smallest and earliest flowering of the fruticose brambles. 
Very variable. I am, however, unable to distribute the specimens 
I have seen into the varieties given by Professor Babington, so I 
have been obliged to copy his descriptions of them. 
Dewberry. 
French, Ronce Bleudtre. German, Kratzbeere. 
The fruit of the Dewberry is very superior to that of any other species. It is 
larger and finer, and of a bluish colour ; and we may believe that in Shakespeare’s time 
it was esteemed as a rural delicacy fit for the favourite of the queen of fairies to feed 
upon. Titania, in her fit of infatuation for Bottom, says :— 
“ Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; 
Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; 
Feed him?with apricocks and dewberries, 
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.” 
Sus-Trise I1T.—EU-DRYADE. 
Calyx flattish, campanulate, or turbinate. Segments valvate 
in estivation. Ovules attached by the point which is furthest 
from the base of the style. Styles terminal, elongated, generally 
persistent and plumose after flowering. Achenes dry, numerous, 
inserted on a dry receptacle. Seed solitary. 
GENUS X—GEUM. Linn. 
Calyx flattish, or slightly concave at the base, with 10, rarely 5 
segments; segments in 2 rows, the 5 outer ones smaller than the 
5 inner. Petals 5, obovate, emarginate or obtuse. Stamens 
numerous. Receptacle conical or cylindrical, dry. Achenes dry, 
terminated by the elongated, more or less hairy styles, which are 
frequently jointed and bent above the middle, with the terminal 
portion deciduous. 
Perennial herbs, with pinnate leaves, the terminal segment 
usually the largest. Flowers in irregular terminal cymes, yellow- 
brownish, white, or red. 
The origin of the name of this genus of plants appears to be in the word yevw (geuo), 
I give a relish, in allusion to the roots of G. urbanum. 
SPECIES I—-GEUM URBANUM. Zinn. 
Pirate CCCCLVII. 
Radical leaves stalked, irregularly lyrate-pinnate, with 2 to 4 pairs 
of leaflets, and a large terminal one, which, as well as those of the 
