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" The Primrose to the grave is gone, 



The Hawthorn flower is dead ; 

 The Violet by the mossy stone 



Hath lain her weary head, 

 But thou, Wild Bramble, back dost bring, 



In all their beauteous power, 

 The fresh green days of life's fair spring, 



And boyhood's blooming hour." 



There are several Brambles, which, like this, have angular 

 stems. We have only one of these the Red-fruited Bramble 

 (Rubus suberectus). Here the fruit is deep red instead of 

 black ; it grows on the banks of a little stream in Swaledale. 

 Several other so-called species differ almost imperceptibly from 

 these, and, according to the opinion of many eminent botanists, 

 should never have been called by different names. 



The Wild Raspberry (R. idseus), grows luxuriantly at Grant- 

 ley Lakes, near Ripon. These are pretty pieces of water 

 surrounded by rocky woods ; they lie off the main road, about 

 two miles from Grantley Hall, the seat of the nobleman of that 

 name. These lakes used to be a favourite place for pic-nics 

 with us, and the beautiful wild Raspberries had their share 

 of attraction. I saw them just as abundantly on the banks of 

 Loch Katrine, and about Oban, a year or two ago. They are 

 quite as sweet and as well-flavoured as the garden Raspberries, 

 only decidedly smaller. The flowers of this species are pen- 

 dulous. The Raspberry grows freely in Swaledale ; and in the 

 same localities, creeping by the side of the rocks, flourishes the 

 Stone Bramble (R. saxatilis), an herbaceous plant, about a 

 foot high, bearing a cluster of few flowers, and light red berries. 



The Cloudberry (R. chameemorus), I sought in the same 

 district long in vain ; but at last I found a farmer who spoke of 

 curious orange berries gathered on low plants on the hills. I 

 went to his farm, and climbed the hills behind it, and in 

 due time I found, among the Ling on the summit, the simple 

 plaited leaves and single flowers of the herbaceous Cloudberry. 

 The plant is without thorns, the flowers have seldom the 

 stamens and stigmas in one bloom, and the grains of the fruit 

 are large and tawny. It only grows where the clouds rest. 



