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merous culinary and confectionery 



articles, as well as in liqueurs. The 



raspberry requires a vegetable soil, 



rather moist, soft, and not very 



deep ; because most of the roots, 



like those of all other plants that 



throw up numerous suckers, keep 



near the surface ; and the situation 



should be shaded, rather than fully 



exposed to the meridian sun. In a 



wild state, it is almost always, found 



more or less shaded by trees, but 



not under their drip ; and in woods, 



the situation of which is rather low 



and moist, than hilly and rocky or 



dry. The root belongs to that description which is called travelling ; that is, 



the suckers extend themselves all round the central plant, so as every year 



to come up in fresh soil. Hence, as Miller observes, a raspberry plantation 



requires to be renewed every five or six years. 



533. . icke'us. 



ii. Leaves digitate, of 3 5 Lea/lets. 

 ^ 6. R. LACINIA'TUS W. The cut-leaved Bramble. 



Identification. Willd. Hort. Berol., p. 82. and t. 82. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 532. 

 Engravings. Willd. Hort. Berol., t. 82. ; Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 69. ; and our fig. 534. 



Spec. Char. y $c. Stem rather round, bearing stout 

 recurved prickles, compressed at the base. 

 Leaflets 3 5, pinnately cut, sharply serrate, a 

 little downy beneath. Flowers in loose panicles, 

 white or rose-coloured. Sepals lanceolate, leafy 

 at the tip, tomentose, prickled, reflexed. Petals 

 wedge-shaped, 3-lobed at the tip. Carpels 

 roundish, dark-coloured. (Dec. Prod.) A large 

 and handsome bramble. Stems 4> ft. to 10 ft. 

 Flowers white, or rose-coloured ; June to Sep- 

 tember. Fruit black; ripe in August. Naked 

 young wood of a fine purple colour. 



The appearance of this plant is that of the 

 common bramble, except in the leaflets, which, 

 from their being deeply cut, are strikingly different. 

 Where it was first found is unknown ; but it is, in 

 all probability, only a variety of the common bramble, analogous to the cut- 

 leaved variety of the elder (Sambiicus nigra laciniata.) H. S. 



jt 7. R. c^sius L. The grey Bramble, or Dewberry. 



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



Don's Mill., 2. p. 533. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t. 22. ; Hayne Abbild., 



t. 100. ; Eng. Bot., t. 826. ; and our fig. 536. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Stem trailing, round, in 

 many instances suffused with a grey bloom, 

 bearing slender and a little recurved 

 prickles. Leaflets 3 in a leaf, ovate, doubly 

 serrated or crenated, glabrous, or obscurely 

 ciliated. Panicle almost simple. Sepals 

 ovate-acuminate. Petals white. Fruit 

 sweet. Carpels large, few, greyish. (Dec. 

 Prod.) A low straggling bramble. Eu- 

 rope and the North-East of Asia, in 



634. R. lacinifctus. 



W5. R. c. par 



