80 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWEliS. 



hard seed, and a juyce of the colour of claret wine, 

 contrarie to the common bramble, whose berries being- 

 ripe are of a shining blacke colour, and euery berry con- 

 taines usually aboue forty graines closely compacted and 

 thrust together/' 



Several other species of Rubns ai-e found in Britain, 

 and are more or less common, the R. idteus, or raspberry, 

 being one of the most abundant. The fruit is small, but 

 fully equal in flavour to that of the garden raspberry, and 

 makes even superior preserve. The cloud-berry, R. chama- 

 morus, is found in profusion in Scotland, but extends no 

 farther south than Derbyshire. The fruit is large, and of 

 a rich orange colour, giving a very welcome refreshment to 

 the mountain-climber. The stone bramble, R. saxatilis, is 

 another northern species. The flowers of all these three 

 kinds are white, the first and third being small and incon- 

 spicuous, while the blossoms of the cloudberry are as large 

 in size and as pure in colour as those of the wood anemone. 



