120 ROSACES. (ROSE FAMILY.) 



2. F. VCSCa, L. Achenia superficial on the conical or hemispherical fruiting 

 It (not .sunk in pits). Fields and rocks, common: indigenous, especial- 

 ly northward. Leaves thin; the wild fruit often long and slender. (Eu.) 



13. DAL.IBARDA, L. DALIBARDA. 



Calyx deeply 5-6-parted, 3 of the divisions larger and toothed. Petals 5, 

 . deciduous. Stamens many. Ovaries 5-10, becoming nearly dry seed- 

 like drupes: styles terminal, deciduous. Low perennials, with creeping and 

 densely tufted stems or rootstoeks, and roundish-heart-shaped crenate leaves on 

 slender petioles. Flowers 1-2, white, on scape-like peduncles. (Named in 

 honor of Dalibard, a French botanist.) 



1. !> rep*ilS, L. Downy; sepals spreading in the flower, converging 

 and enclosing the fruit. Wooded banks; common northward. June -Aug. 



Leaves much like those of a stemless Violet. 



14. RIJBUS, L. BRAMBLE. 



Calyx 5-parted, without bractlets. Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens numerous. 

 Achenia usually many, collected on a spongy or succulent receptacle, becoming 

 Finall drupes : styles nearly terminal. Perennial herbs, or somewhat shrubby 

 plants, with white (rarely reddish) flowers, and edible fruit. (Name from the 

 Celtic rub, red.) 



$ 1. Fruit, or collective mass of drupes, falling off whole from the dry receptacle when 



ripe, or of few grains which fall separately. (RASPBERRY.) 

 # Leaves simple : flowers larye : prickles none : fruit and receptacle flat 



1. R. odorsilus, L. (PURPLE FLOWERING-RASPBERRY.) Stem shrub' 

 ly (3 -5 high) ; branches, stalks, and calyx bristly with alandnlar clammy hairs; 

 leaves 3 - 5-lobcd, the lobes pointed and minutely toothed, the middle one pro- 

 longed; peduncles many-flowered; calyx -lobes tipped with a long narrow ap- 

 pendage; petals roundfd, purple rose-color ; fruit ripening several reddish grains. 



Rocky banks, common northward. June -Aug. Flowers showy, 2' broad. 



2. K. TVlitkttliliS, Moc.ino. (WHITE FLOWERING-RASPBERRY.) 

 glandular, scarcely bristly ; leaves almost equally 5-lobcd, coarsely toothed ; 

 peduncles few-flowered; petals oval, white. (R. parvifl .'>rus, Nn/t.) Upper 

 Michigan, and northwestward along the Lakes. Much like No. 1 ; but smaller. 



3 II. CliailliElllorilS, L. (CLOUD-BERRY.) Herbaceous, low, diwcious ; 

 stem simple, 2-3-leaved, I flowered ; leaves roumlish-kidney-form, somewhat 5- 

 lobed, serrate, wrinkled; calyx-lobes pointless; petals obovate, white; fruit of 

 few grains, amber-color. White Mountains of New Hampshire at the limit of 

 trees : also Lubcck, Maine, and northward. (Eu.) 



# # Leaflet ft (pinnately) 3 - 5 : petals small, erect, white. 

 *- Srems annual, herbaceous, not prickly : fruit offeio sejxini/' </m/>/.s- 



4. R. tri llorilS, Richardson. (D\v.\i:i- RASPISKKUV.) Stems sisccnding 

 (6'- 12' high) or trailing ; leaflets 3 (or pcdately 5), rhombic-ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, coarsely doubly serrate, thin smooth ; peduncle 



