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It is easily distinguished from all the other brambles in British gardens, by its 

 nearly erect, strong, smooth, dark mahogany-coloured shoots, and by its very 

 long pinnate leaves. The flowers are small, and the petals are of a bright 

 reddish purple, and shorter than the sepals. The fruit is of a blackish pur- 

 ple, of the middle size ; depressedly spherical, and covered with a fine bloom. 

 The grains are fleshy, with a sweet subacid taste. This species throws up 

 suckers sparingly; but its magnificent shoots arch over after they get to 

 6 or 8 feet in height, and grow branching and flowering on every side, till they 

 reach the ground, when their extreme points strike root, and form new plants. 

 Horticultural Society's Garden. 



* 4. R. OCCIDENTALS L. The Western, or American, Bramble. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 706. : Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 531. 



Synonymes. R. virginianus Hort. ; R. idae\is fructu nigro Dill. 



Engravings. Sloane Jam., t. 213. f. 1. ; Dill. Hort. Elt., t. 247. f. 3 i9. ; and our Jig. 532. 



Spec. Char.y fyc. The whole plant is pretty glabrous. 

 Stems round and whitish. Prickles recurved. Leaves 

 of the barren branches pinnate ; of the fertile branches 

 trifoliolate. Leaflets ovate, incisely serrated, whitely 

 tomentose beneath. Stipules very narrow, and bristle- 

 like. Flowers in umbels. Peduncle prickled. Sepals 

 lanceolate-linear, tomentose, longer than the petals, 

 which are obovately wedge-shaped, two-lobed, and 

 spreading. Fruit black, acid, of the form of that of 

 /?. idae v us. Carpels numerous, rather glabrous ; be- 

 coming, by drying, rugged with little hollows. (Dec. 

 Prod.) A sub-erect shrub. Canada and the West 

 Indies. Height 4 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1696. 

 Flowers white ; May and June. Fruit black ; ripe in 

 August. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



& 5. 7^. ID^US L. The Mount Ida Bramble, or common Raspberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 706. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. 



Synonymes. R.frumbcesidnus Lam. Fl. Fr., 3. p. 135. ; Framboisier, Fr. ; gemeine Brombeere, Ger. 

 " The Raspis is called in Greeke BATOS IDAIA ; in Latin, Rubus Idcea, of the mountaine Ida, on 

 which it groweth ; in English, Raspis, Framboise, and Hinde-berry." (Johns. Ger., p. 1274. ^ 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 2442. ; and our fig. 533. 



Spec. Char., $c. Villose. Stem round, bearing slender recurved prickles. 

 Leaves pinnate ; those of the fertile stems of 3 leaflets, those of the sterile 

 stems of 5, rather palmately disposed. Leaflets ovate, incisely serrated, 

 whitely tomentose beneath. Stipules very narrow and bristle-like. Flowers 

 in a corymbose panicle. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, whitely tomentose, ending 

 in a point. Petals obovate-wedge-shaped, entire, conniving, shorter than 

 the calyx. Carpels numerous, tomentose. (Dec. Prod.) An upright shrub, 

 with a creeping root and biennial stems. Europe, and, probably, Asia, 

 Africa, and America. Found in every part of Great Britain, and in L'eland, 

 in the agricultural and subalpine regions, in woods, and in moist wastes. 

 Height 4 ft. to 8 ft. Flowers white ; May, June, and July. Fruit red ; 

 ripe in July, August, and September. 



Varieties. 



m R. i. 2 mtcrophyttus Wallr. Sched. p. 256. Leaves all of 3 leaflets. 

 Stem sufiruticose ; dwarfer and more bushy than the species. (Dec. 

 Prod.} 



Garden Varieties. There are varieties with red fruit, yellow fruit, and 

 white fruit ; and one which bears twice in the year. 



The fruit of the species, in a wild state, is crimson, amd consists of nume- 

 rous juicy grains, beset with the permanent styles, and highly fragrant ; with a 

 very deliciously sweet, and yet slightly acid flavour, when eaten. Improved 

 varieties of it have long been in cultivation in gardens, for the fruit, which is 

 delightfully fragrant, and grateful to the palate in itself, and is used in nu- 



