THIMBLE-BERRY (Rubiis mdlidnits. Moc.). Flowers white, 

 or tinged with pink, 1 to 2 inches in diameter, in few-flowered 

 terminal clusters on long stems. Leaves, suggesting the maple, 

 palmate, 5-lobed, 3 to 12 inches across, long-petioled and hori- 

 zontally spreading. A bush from 2 to 8 feet high, the erect 

 or trailing stems without thorns, blooming in late spring or 

 early summer, from Central California (including the Yosemite 

 region) in mountain woods northward through Oregon and 

 Washington to Alaska, and eastward through Utah and Col- 

 orado to Michigan, with a fondness for stream borders. 



Ihe fruit of the 1 himble-berry is red when ripe, looking 

 like a depressed raspberry, as indeed it is, and variable as to 

 ecilility. In localities of little rainfall it tends to dryness, 

 seeds and insipidity; but in the damper regions of the northern 

 coast, it becomes fleshy and luscious. In its eastern range it 

 is sometimes known as Salmon-berry, a name more properly 

 applied to a kindred species with yellowish fruit. 



Some botanists discard Mocino's name Rubus nutlanus 

 (referring to Kootka, a locality of Fritish Columbia) and pre- 

 fer Nuttall's name for this species R. parviflorus. 



