DEWBEEEY. 



Rubus casing. Nat. Ord., Rosacece. 



UR great botanical authorities 

 are hopelessly at variance as 

 to what is a blackberry and 

 what is not, and while some 

 will tell us that there is 

 but one species, others go so 

 far as to say that there are 

 thirty-six. It is a plant 

 that varies considerably, and 

 this variation of the parts has 

 led to an excessive multipli- 

 cation of supposed species; 

 and as scarcely two writers 

 agree as to what should be 

 legitimately counted a spe- 

 cific variation of structure, 

 and what should not, the 

 whole subject has got into 

 a very chaotic state. The 

 dewberry has a close affinity 



to the blackberry, and some of the varieties of each are 

 found to closely approach each other ; but one ordinarily 

 finds no difficulty in identifying it. The stem of the 

 dewberry is covered with a greyish bloom, and is much 

 more slender and weak than that of the blackberry, and 



