102 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



ah; elongated 'filiform -fityle at the apex. Acines dry, not 

 united at base. Icosandria. Polygynia. 



C.fragaiioides De Cand. : carpels smooth Lsh ; peduncles branched, 

 3-flowered ; petals thrice as large as the calyx ; leaves ternate ; leai'et* 

 wedge-fonn, sessile. Dalibardafragarioides Mich. Punk. Torr. 



HAB. Woods. Can. to Car. May. L. Root creeping. Scapes 

 3 4 inches high. Leaves on long petioles, ternate, rarely qui- 

 nate, incisely serrate. Flowers 35, yellow. Dry Strawberry. 



6. RUBUS. Linn. 



Calyx, flat at base, naked, 5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamens 

 many, inserted into the calyx. Berry composed of many co- 

 hering fleshy carpels or acines. Receptacle nearly dry. 



Icosandria . Polygy nia. 



* Lcarcs jrinnate or ternate, white-dmcny beneath. 



1. K. strigosus Mich. : stem terete, strongly hispid ; leafets in threes, 

 or pinnate in fives, oval, obtuse at the base, marked with lines and 

 whitish-downy beneath, the terminal one often subcordate ; peduncles 

 somewhat 3-flowered and with the calyx hispid ; flowers in terminal 

 racemes ; petals obovate, longer than the calyx. R. pennsylnanicus 

 Jam. 



HAB. Rocky liills. Can. to Virg. N. to Subarc. Amer. May. 

 \j. Stem upright, without prickles, but covered with still' l>nV 

 tles, of a reddish colour. Flowers white. Fruit red, richly fla- 

 voured. Red Raybcmj. 



2. K. occidcntalis Linn. : somewhat smooth ; stem terete, glaucous, 

 armed with strong recurved prickles ; leaves of the sterile branches 

 pinnate, of the fertile ones ternate ; leafets ovate, coarsely serrate, 

 hoary -tomentose beneath ; petioles terete ; flowers in terminal racemes; 

 lobes of the calyx lanceolate-linear, tomentose at the apex; petals obo- 

 vate-wedgeform, 2-lobed, shorter than the calyx. 



HAB. Side hills. Can. to Car. N. to Subarc. Amer. May 

 July. 1>. Stem 4 5 feet high. Flowers white. Fruit round- 

 ish, black and reddish. Wild Raspberry. 



3. It. idanis Linn. : villose ; stem terete, with slender recurved 

 prickles ; leaves of the sterile branches pinnate, of the fertile ones ter- 

 nate ; leafets rhombic-ovate, acuminate, white and very downy be- 

 neath ; petioles channelled ; flowers somewhat corymbed ; lobes of the 

 calyx ovatc-lanceoJate, white-tomentose, submucronate ; petals obo- 

 vate- wedgoform, entire, shorter than the calyx. 



HAB. Hedges and woods. Can.toPenn. Pitrsh. June. J?. Stem 

 a 4 feet high. Flowers white, panicled. Fruit red. It is said 

 to have several varieties. 



