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Dewberry; Low Running Blackberry 



Rubus procumbens Muhlenberg 



Plate sab 



Stems trailing, shrubby and perennial, often several feet long, armed 

 with numerous or very few prickles. Branches erect, 4 to 12 inches long, 

 slightly pubescent, often prickly and glandular. Leaves three to seven- 

 foliate, usually three-foliate ; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, thin, pointed 

 at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, sharply toothed. Flowers 

 few in terminal racemes, white, about i inch broad; the five petals usually 

 as long or slightly longer than the calyx lobes. Fruit black, usually at 

 least one-half of an inch long and sometimes i inch long, fine flavored but 

 with large seeds. 



In dry soil, especially in sandy sections, Nova Scotia to Ontario and 

 Michigan, south to Virginia, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Flowering in May 

 and June. Fruit ripe in June and July. 



A similar species, Rubus hispidus Linnaeus (Hispid or Run- 

 ning Swamp Blackberry), with the stems densely beset with weak, retrorse 

 bristles, is also common in swamps and low grounds throughout our area. 



Dalibarda; Dewdrop or False Violet 



Dalibarda repens Linnaeus 



Plate pyb 



Stems very slender, much tufted, several inches long. Leaves downy- 

 pubescent on both sides, three-fourths to 2 inches broad, long petioled, 

 ovate-orbicular, cordate, the margin with low, blunt or sometimes mucronu- 

 late crenations; stipules setaceous. The scapelike peduncles i to 5 inches 

 long, bearing one or two large, perfect white flowers, each flower about one- 

 half of an inch broad; calyx deeply five or six-parted, three of the divisions 

 larger than the other two or three; petals five; stamens numerous. Fruit 

 composed of five to ten nearly dry drupelets, inclosed by the calyx segments. 

 Stems also have short, recurved peduncles bearing several or numerous 

 small cleistogamous flowers. 



