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all and soft, cherry-red, 

 1 and China. B.M. 6479. 

 S:137. J.H. III. 29:210. 

 : 263. — Interesting as an 

 ommended for its fruit. 



In the North it often kills to the ground, but the strong 

 young recurving canes and white-bottomed foliage make 

 it a handsome plant. 



14. ellipticus. Smith {B. fUvus, Ham.). Fig. 2199. 

 Tall and erect or nearly so (6-10 ft.), the 

 and densely beset with straight red-brown hairs and 

 bearing a few stout, short, nearly straight prickles : Ifts. 

 3, the terminal one much the largest, ovate to orbicular- 

 ovate, not lobed, evenly doubly serrate, thickish, soft 

 pubescent and strongly veined and prickly on the mid- 

 rib beneath- fls. white. % in. or less across, in small, 

 many-fld. clusters: berry the size of a common Rasp- 

 berry, yellow, of good quality. Himalayas. — Grown in 

 southern Fla., where it is said to be the only Raspberry 

 that perfects its fruit. 



BB. Plant not red-hairy all over. 

 c. Bed Baspberries. 



15. IdffiUB, Linn. European Raspberry. An erect, 

 mostly stiff grower, propagating by suckers, the canes 

 light - colored and bearing nearly straight slender 

 prickles : Ifts. ovate, white beneath, irregularly toothed 

 and notched, usually somewhat plicate or wrinkled: 

 flower-clusters mostly long and interrupted, most of the 

 peduncles dividing into two or three pedicels, the pedi- 

 i-ils, as also the flowering shoots, petioles and midribs, 

 llri.lv pubescent, but not glandular, and sparsely fur- 

 iiNlied with firm recurved prickles: fls. small, white: 

 calyx pubescent: fruit oblong or conical, dark red, yel- 

 low or whitish, produced more or less continuously 

 throughout the season. Europe and Asia. — Named for 

 Mt. Ida, in Greece. Early introduced into this country, 

 but now nearly driven from cultivation by the hardier 

 native species'. The Antwcrps, FnutPnay. and Fastolf 

 belong here. Biibux Ithiu^ it-,,. If i^ not known to be 

 native to N. Amer.. but a ni"-i nitii.stiug form of it 



SeeFernald, Khodora, 2, p. lil.3, with figure. 



