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It IS easily tlistinguished from all the other brambles iii British gardens, by its 

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

 ong pinnate leaves. The flowers are small, and tlie petals are of a bright 

 'reddish purple, and shorter tlian the sepals. Tiie fruit is of a blixckish pur- 

 j)le, of the rtiiddle size ; depressedly spherical, and covered with a fine bloom. 

 The grains are fleshy, witii 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. 



a 4. R. occidenta'lis L. The Western, or American, Bramble. 



Identificntion. Lin. Sp., 706. : Dec. Prod., 2. p. hh%. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 531. 



Synunymes. R. virginianus Ilort. ; R. idff'us fructu nlgro Dill. 



Engravings. Sloane Jam., t. 213. f. 1. ; Dill. Hort. Elt., t. 247. f. 319. ; and oar fg. 532. 



Spec. Clinr., ^c. 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-Iobed, and 

 spreading. Fruit black, acid, of the form of that of \^.'j] 

 If. idae'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 ^jj. . occidemiUs. 

 August. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



a 5. JR. iDJE'vs L. The Mount Ida Bramble, or common Raspberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 706. ; Doc. Prod., 2. p. 5.")8. 



Sijmmymes. R.frumhcesiUnns Lam. Fl. Fr., 3. p. 135. ; Framboisier, Fr. ; gemeine Brombeere, Ger. 

 The Uaspis is called in Grceke B.\Tos Idaia ; in Latin, Rttbus Id<ea, of the niountanie Ida, oo 

 Mhich it groweth ; in Engli.-h, Kaspis, Framboise, and Hinde-bcrry." (Johns. Ger., p. lSi74.> 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 2442. ; and out Jig. 533. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Villose. Stem round, bearing slender recurved prickles. 

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

 stems of 5, rather palniatcly 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 i)oint. Petals obovate-w-edge-shaped, entire, conniving, shorter than 

 tiie 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 Ireland, 

 in the agricultural iind 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. 



a R. J. 2 vilcrophi/lhis Wallr. Sched. p. 25C. Leaves all of 3 leaflets. 

 Stem sufTruticose ; 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 tlieyear. 



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

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

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

 varieties of it have long b( en in cultivation in gardens, for the fruit, which is 

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



