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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. R, iflae^us. 



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ii. Leaves digitate, of 3 5 Leaflets. 

 6. R. lacinia'tus W. The cut-leaved Bramble. 



Identification. Willd. Hort. Berol., p. 82. and t. 82. ; Dec. Prod., 2, p. S58. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 532. 

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



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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. (^Dcc. 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 strilcingly difl^crent. 

 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 (^ambucus nigra laciniata.) H. S. 



St 7. i?. c^E^sius L. The grey Bramble, or Dewberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 706. ; Dec. Piod., 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 out jig. 536. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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. (Z)rc. 

 Prod.) A low straggling bramble. Eu- 

 rope and the North-East of Asia, in 



634. R. lacinikniK. 



SM. R. c. parvifilius. 



