376 THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



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probably throughout the northern states, al- 

 though I know it only from southwestern 

 Michigan and eastern New York. The spe- 

 cies has no economic importance, being too 

 weak and soft a grower to promise much 

 reward to the cultivator. 



*VA 4. RUBUS TRIVIALIS Michx., 



v ' - N, Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 296 



(1803). Southern Dew- 

 berry (Fig. 88). 



Stems very long, often 

 growing ten to fifteen feet, 

 mostly thickly beset with 

 prickles and sometimes with 

 reddish bristles ; leaves rather 

 short-stalked, and compara- 

 tively small, rigid, and ever- 

 green or nearly so, the 

 petioles and midribs strong 

 and prickly, the leaflets vary- 

 ing from nearly oblong to 

 oblong-ovate ; pedicels mostly 

 short and simple, termina- 

 ted by a large and showy 

 flower ; fruit variable in size, 

 usually oblong, and more or 

 less dry and seedy. This 

 species is widely distributed 

 from Virginia south and 



from" the type"sp"e7imen"in southwest. It is a variable 

 Trattinniek's herbarium species, running into some 

 at Vienna. X one-half . varieties with rather broad 

 leaves and very large flow- 

 ers. It is possible that two species are confused 

 under this name, but much of the confusion has 

 arisen from the confounding of E. villosus with it. 

 The specimen upon which Michaux founded the 

 species is the form with narrow, hard leaflets and 



Fig. 87. Rubus Enslenii, 



