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acute leaflets, or the side-leaflets parted, making 5, all doubly serrate; 



peduncle bearing 1-3 small flowers, and the fruit of few grains. Low 



woods, N. ^ , , 



* * Bushes; the canes woody. 



-t- Not hairy, although bristly or prickly. 



R. occident^lis, Linn. Black R., Blackcap, or Thimbleberrv. 



Borders of fields and thickets N., especially where ground has been 

 burned over; glaucous-whitened, the long, recurving stems, stalks, etc., 

 armed with hooked prickles, but no bristles ; leaflets mostly 3, ovate, 

 pointed, white-downy beneath, coarsely doubly toothed, the lateral ones 

 stalked; flowers in close umbel-like clusters, or some of them somewhat 

 scattered, the petals shorter than the sepals; fruit purple-black (or an 

 amber-colored variety), flattish, ripe at midsummer. Parent of the Black 

 Raspberries of the garden. 



R. strig6sus, Michx. Wild Red R. Common especially N. ; 2°-3° 

 high, the upright stems, stalks, etc., beset with copious bristles, and some 

 of them becoming weak prickles, also glandular ; leaflets oblong-ovate, 

 pointed, cut-serrate, white-downy beneath, the lateral ones (either 1 or 

 2 pairs) not stalked ; flowers in more or less raceme-like clusters, the 

 petals as long as the sepals, the latter more or less glandular ; fruit light 

 red, tender and watery, but high flavored, ripening all summer. Parent 

 of some of the Red Raspberries of the garden. 



R. MEGLECTus, a hybrid between the last two, has given rise to the 

 Shaffer, Philadelphia, and other garden varieties of the Purple Cane 

 class. 



/?. /doBus, Linn. European Raspberry. Tall and nearly erect, beset 

 with straight, slender prickles, or many of them mere bristles, the canes 

 whitish ; leaves thicker, and fruit firmer and larger than in R. strigosus, 

 red or yellowish, ripening through the summer ; calyx glandless. Parent 

 of the Antwerp and other garden Raspberries ; once much grown, but 

 now mostly out of cultivation in this country. 



-t- ■*- Densely glandular-hairy. 



R. phaeni'colasius, Maxim. Wineberrv. Strong bush with the habit 

 of a raspberry, the branches covered with a copious red hair ; the dull 

 and sparsely hairy, wedge-ovate or wedge-cordate, toothed, and jagged 

 leaflets very white-tomentose below ; flowers in fascicled clusters ; the 

 soft reddish fruits at length inclo-sed in the great hairy calyx, edible. 

 Japan. 



§ 3. Blackberries and Dewberries ; tcith the pulpy grains of the frutt 

 remaining attached to the pnlpy receptacle, u'hich at length falls away 

 from the calyx; stems prickly; leaves of 3 or pedately 5-7 leaflets; 

 flowers on leafy shoots from stems of the preceding year, in spring and 

 early summer, with ichite spreading petals. 



* Stems more or less woody; fruit hlack {rarely amber) when ripe, 

 edible, ripening in summer and autumn. 



•t- Stems more or less erect, not propagating from the tip. — Black- 

 berries. 



R. vill6sus, Ait. High Blackberry. Everywhere along thickets, 

 fence-rows, etc. ; stems P-6° high, furrowed ; prickles strong and hooked ; 

 leaflets 3-5, ovate or lance-ovate, ])ointed, their lower surface and stalks 

 hairy and glandular, tiie middle one long-stalked and sometimes heart- 

 shaped ; flowers rather large, with short bracts, in distinct leafless racemes ; 

 fruit oblong or cylindrical, 'i'he common Blackberry of gardens, running 

 into many forms. 



