154 ROSACE/E. (ROSE FAMILY.) 



Hook.) Rocky bauks of streams, N. Eng. to Fla., west to Mo., and the 

 Pacific northward. Often cultivated. 



4. GILLENIA, Moench. INDIAN PHYSIC. 



Calyx narrow, somewhat constricted at the throat, 5-toothed ; teeth erect. 

 Petals 5, rather unequal, linear-lanceolate, inserted in the throat of the calyx, 

 convolute in the bud. Stamens 10-20, included. Pods 5, included, at first 

 lightly cohering with each other, 2-4-seeded. Seeds ascending, with a close 

 coriaceous coat, and some albumen. Perennial herbs, with almost sessile 

 3-foliolate leaves ; the thin leaflets doubly serrate and incised. Flowers loosely 

 paniculate-corymbed, pale rose-color or white. (Dedicated to an obscure Ger- 

 man botanist or physician, A. Gille, or Gillenius.) 



1. G. trifoliata, Moench. (BOWMAN'S ROOT.) Leaflets ovate-oblong, 

 pointed, cut-serrate ; stipules small, awl-shaped, entire. Rich woods, N. Y. 

 to N. J. and Ga., west to Mich., Ind., and Mo. 



2. G. stipulacea, Nutt. (AMERICAN IPECAC.) Leaflets lanceolate, 

 deeply incised; stipules large and leaf -like, doubly incised. Western N. Y. 

 and Penn. to S. Ind. and Kan., south to Ala. and La. 



5. RUB US, Tourn. BRAMBLE. 



Calyx 5-parted, without bractlets. Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens numerous. 

 Achenes usually many, collected on a spongy or succulent receptacle, becoming 

 small drupes ; styles nearly terminal. Perennial herbs, or somewhat shrubby 

 plants, with white (rarely reddish) flowers, and edible fruit. (The Roman 

 name, kindred with ruber, red.) 

 1. Fruit, or collective mass of drupes, falling off whole from the dry receptacle 



when ripe, or of few grains which fall separately. RASPBERRY. 

 * Leaves simple ; flowers large ; prickles none ; fruit and receptacle fiat and broad. 



1. R. odoratUS, L. (PURPLE FLOWERING-RASPBERRY.) Stem shrubby 

 (3 - 5 high) ; branches, stalks, and calyx bristly with glandular clammy hairs ; 

 leaves 3-5-lobed, the lobes pointed and minutely toothed, the middle one pro- 

 longed; peduncles many -flowered ; flowers showy (2' broad); calyx-lobes 

 tipped with a long narrow appendage ; petals rounded, purple rose-color ; fruit 

 reddish. N. Scotia to N. J. and Ga., west to Midi. 



2. R. Nutkanus, Mocino. (SALMON-BERRY.) Glandular, scarcely 

 bristly ; leaves almost equally 5-lobed, coarsely toothed ; peduncles few-flow- 

 ered; petals oval, white. Upper Mich., Minn., and westward. 



3. R. Chamsemdrus, L. (CLOUD-BERRY. BAKED-APPLE BERRY.) 

 Herbaceous, low, dioecious; stem simple, 2- 3-leaved, l-fiowered ; leaves round- 

 ish-kidney-form, somewhat 5-lobed, serrate, wrinkled; calyx-lobes pointless; 

 petals obovate, white ; fruit of few grains, amber-color. In sphagnous swamps, 

 highest peaks of White Mts., coast of E. Maine, and north and west to the 

 Arctic regions. (Eu.) 



* * Leaflets (pinnately or pedately) 3-5; petals small, erect, white. 

 - Stems annual, herbaceous, not prickly; fruit of few separate grains. 



4. R. trifldrus, Richardson. (DWARF RASPBERRY.) Stems ascending 

 (6-12' high) or trailing; leaflets 3 (or pedately 5), rhombic-ovate or ovate- 



