COMMON BRAMBLE ; or, BLACK- 

 BERRY. — Rubusfndicosiis. 



Class IcosANDRiA. OnUr PoLTGYNiA. Nat. Ord. Rosacea 

 Rose Tribe. 



Eew are unacquainted with a plant whose 

 finiits are so pleasing to the simple taste of child- 

 hood and whose white floAvers, sometimes 

 tinged with pink, decorate every hedge during 

 July and August. Elliott has said of it, 



" Thour^h woodbiDGS flaunt and roses f^row 



O'er all the fragrant bowers, 

 Thou need'st not be ashamed to show 



Thy satin- threaded flowers ; 

 For dull the eye, the heart as dull, 



That cannot feel how fair, 

 Amid all beauty, beautiful 



Thy tender blossoms are." 



This, as well as some others of the genus, is 

 a biennial woody plant, producing suckers from 

 the root, which ripen and bear leaves one 

 year, and flowers and fruits the next. Phny 

 said that the propagation of trees by layers 

 was taught the ancients by the bramble-bush. 

 Knapp has observed of both this and the 

 Dewberry, {Riibus ccesius,) that they may 

 almost be considered as evergreens, and adds, 

 that we have perhaps no other shrubl3y plant 

 naturally deciduous except the Privet. These 

 slu'ubs may be often seen with many green or 



