120 SMALL FRUIT CULTUEIST. 



grains to nearly an inch in diameter, red, with a rather 

 dry, musky flavor. Common, in most of the Northern 

 States, in high rocky places. It is sometimes called 

 Thimbleberry, Mulberry, etc. 



Rubus Nutkanus. White Flowering Easpberry. 

 Leaves almost equally five-lobed, scarcely bristly ; petals 

 oval, white, very much like the last, and probably only a 

 variety of R. odoratus. Northern Michigan and west- 

 ward, and northward to Alaska. The California Salmon- 

 berry (R. velutinus, Hook.) is now regarded as only a 

 variety of this. 



R. Chamaemorus. Cloudberry. Herbaceous, low; dioa- 

 cious ; stem simple ; two to three- leaved ; one-flowered ; 

 leaves roundish, kidney form, somewhat five-lobed ; petals 

 white ; grains few. amber color. Native of Europe, par- 

 ticularly in the more northern portions, also in the high 

 mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, and in the 

 Canadas. 



CLASS 2. Leaves three-foliate, ometimes simple, but 

 rarely five-foliate. Stems soft, "woody, and somewhat 

 prickly. 



R, spectabilis. Showy Easpberry. Stems robust, five 

 to ten feet high, bearing a few straight, stout prickles ; 

 leaflets ovate, accuminate double incised -serrate and often 

 two or three-lobed ; veins beneath as well as petioles, 

 sparingly villous-pubescent ; flowers mostly solitary, red, 

 large, and showy ; fruit large ovoid, red, or yellow. Com- 

 mon on the Pacific coast from California northward to 

 Alaska. Var. Menziesii Is more tomentose and silky, 

 but otherwise resembles the species. 



CLASS 3. Leaves compound, of three to five leaflets. 

 Stems annual, herbaceous, not prickly ; fruit of a few 

 separate grains. 



R, pedatus. Bird's-foot Easpberry. Stems slender, 



