90 Rose (Rosacece) 



Found, oftenest on the banks of streams from Canada 

 southward and westward, widely distributed, but 

 rather rare in its wild state. 



A beautiful shrub, three to five feet high, often and 

 easily cultivated. 



(4) Genus RUBUS, Tourn. (Blackberry, etc.) 



From a word meaning " red." 



Flowers, white (excepting in the first species, Purple- 

 Flowering Raspberry). Petals, five. Sepals, five, 

 partly united, spreading. Stamens, numerous. Seed- 

 cases, many, each with two young seeds, only one of 

 which ripens, crowded on a lengthened receptacle. 



Leaves, compound (excepting in Purple-Flowering Rasp- 

 berry). Stems, often armed with prickles. 



Fruit, a pulpy edible " berry " so called, formed by the 

 ripened seed-cases. A mass of small drupes. 



Fig. 36. Purple- Flowering Raspberry. R. odorcttus, L. 



Flowers, one to two inches across, showy, purple to rose 

 color. Petals, rounded in terminal clusters. Stamens, 

 one hundred to two hundred, whitish. Calyx, flower- 

 stems, and branchlets, covered with sticky hairs. 

 June, July. 



Leaves, four to eight inches long, simple, three- to five- 

 lobed, the middle lobe longest, all pointed and with 

 their edges fine-toothed, somewhat hairy, without 

 prickles. 



Fruit, of but slight value, broad and flat, sometimes an 

 "inch across, separating from the receptacle when 

 ripe, red, sweet when ripe. August. 



