CHAPTER ILL 



RASPBEEEY. 



NATURAL FAMILY KOSACEJB. 



[RUBUS. The Latin name for the Raspberry and Blackberry derived from th* 

 oeltic rub, red ; French name, Framboisier ; German, Himtxeren Strauch ; Dutch, 

 Fra/mbooe; Italian, Bova-ideo; Spanish, Frambueso; the old English name ii 

 Baspis or Hinctoerry.] 



GENERAL CHARACTERS. 



Perennial herbs, or somewhat shrubby plants, with 

 biennial, and, in a few species, perennial woody stems ; 

 flowers, white or red ; petals, five deciduous ; stamens, 

 many ; seeds collected on a spongy, succulent receptacle, 

 becoming small drupes. In the Kaspberry, that which is 

 called the fruit, is a collective mass of drupes, which 

 readily parts from the dry receptacle when ripe. 

 SPECIES. 



Our native species are divided into three classes by Dr. 

 Gray, as follows : 



CLASS 1. Leaves simple; flowers large, prickles none' 

 fruit and receptacle flat. 



Rubus odoratus. Purple Flowering Raspberry. Stem 

 shrubby, three to five feet high ; branches, stalks and ca- 

 lyx bristly, with glandular, clammy hairs ; leaves three to 

 6ve lobed ; the lobes pointed and minutely toothed, the 

 middle one prolonged ; peduncles many flowered, purple 

 rose-colored; fruit variable in size, from two or three 

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