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brambles and roses are closely allied ; even their names 

 Rubus and Rosa are said to come from the same root, 

 signifying red, and the most perceptible difference is in 

 the fruit, which in the brambles is a fleshy, juicy fruit, 

 borne on the calyx, and in the roses is the tube of the 

 calyx itself, enlarged and coloured.) The R. odoratus, 

 also from North America, is like the Nutka Sound 

 bramble, but it is not so large, and the flowers are 

 purple ; it is more or less in flower all the summer. 

 Both of these are thornlcss, and so is the I!, deliciotus 

 from the Rocky Mountains, with fine white flowers, but 

 not, in my opinion, equal cither in foliage or flower to 

 /?. Aulfcinitt. Of the high-growing brambles I should 

 elect two the white-skinned bramble (R. biflonis\ 

 from Nepal, which, with its very white stems and 

 leaves, is a striking object grown among other shrubs, 

 and the red-haired bramble (R. phoenifohisius) from 

 Japan, a very curious and beautiful plant. The flower 

 is a poor one, but the long calyx-lobes and other parts 

 are covered with red hairs ending in a gland, curiously 

 like the sun-dew, and like that very destructive to small 

 insects. The It. laciniutus is also a high-growing bramble, 

 with beautiful leaves and fine black fruit, which the 

 birds do not seem to fancy. Its native country is 

 unknown, but it is said to be naturalised on Chislehurst 

 Common and in parts of South Wales. Of the lower 



