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6. Rubus neglectus Peck. Purple Wild 

 Raspberry. (Fig. 1895.) 



Rubus neglectus Peck, Rep. Reg. Univ. N. Y. 22: 53. 



1869. 

 Rubus strigosus x occidental is Aust. Bull. Torr. Club, 



1:31. 1870. 



Intermediate between the preceding species and 

 the next. Stems usually elongated, recurved and 

 rooting at the tip, glaucous, sparingly bristly and 

 prickly; leaflets ovate, sharply and irregularly in- 

 cised- serrate, very white-pubescent beneath, \'-$' 

 long, inflorescence corymbose, rather compact, 

 terminal and often axillary; pedicels erect or as- 

 cending even in fruit; flowers 4 // -5 // broad; petals 

 white, erect; fruit nearly hemispherical, dark-red 

 or purple (yellowish in a cultivated form). 



In dry or rocky soil, New England to Pennsylvania. 

 The original of the Carolina, Gladstone and other Rasp- 

 berries. June-July. Fruit ripe July-Aug. 



7. Rubus occidentalis L,. Black Rasp- 

 berry. Thimble-berry. (Fig. 1896.) 



Rubus occidentalis L,. Sp. PI. 493. 1753. ' 



Rubus fdaeus var. Americanus Torr. Ann. I,yc. N. Y. 



2: 196. 1825. 



Very glaucous, stems cane- like, recurved, often 

 rooting at the tip, sometimes io-i2 long, spar- 

 ingly armed with small hooked prickles, rarely 

 slightly glandular-bristly above. Stipules seta- 

 ceous, deciduous; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate 

 (rarely 5-foliolate); leaflets ovate, acuminate, 

 coarsely incised-serrate, very white-pubescent be- 

 neath; flowers as in the preceding species; inflores- 

 cence corymbose, compact, usually only terminal; 

 pedicels short, ascending or erect in fruit; fruit 

 purple-black, depressed-hemispheric. 



Quebec and Ontario, so_uth to Georgia and Missouri. 

 Ascends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. The original of the 

 Gregg, Hilborn and other Raspberries. May-June. 

 Fruit ripe July. Called also Scotch-cap and Black-cap. 



8. Rubus Americanus (Pers.) Britton. Dwarf Raspberry. (Fig. 1897.) 



Rubus sa.ra/ilis var. Canadensis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 



i:'298. 1803. Not R. Canadensis L. 1753. 

 R. saxatilis var. Americanus Pere. Syn. 2: 52. 1807. 

 Rubus triflorus Richards. Franklin Journ. Ed. 2, App. 



19. 1823. 

 R. Americanus Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 185. 1894. 



Stem trailing or ascending, unarmed, annual, her- 

 baceous, or slightly woody and sometimes branched 

 below, 6 / -i8 / long, somewhat pubescent. Stipules 

 oval, entire or few-toothed, 3 // -5 // long; leaves peti- 

 oled, pedately or pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely 5-folio- 

 late; leaflets rhombic-ovate, glabrous or nearly so, 

 acute, the lateral ones mostly rounded, the terminal 

 one cuneate at the base, all sharply and often doubly 

 serrate; peduncles slender, i-3-flowered, glandular- 

 pubescent; flowers 4 // -6 // broad; petals 5-7, white, 

 spatulate-oblong, erect, rather longer than the acu- 

 minate reflexed sepals; fruit red-purple, about 6" 

 long. 



In swamps, Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to 

 New Jersey and Iowa. Intermediate between Black- 

 berries and Raspberries. May-July. Fruit ripe July- 

 Aug. 



