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Original distribution. — North Carolina to New Mexico and far 

 northward. Northeastern Asia, Japan to Altai and the Himalayas. 



This species is closely related to E. Idceus, though wild forms 

 can be readily separated by botanical characters. In cultivation 

 these characters largely disappear. For the position of the species 

 in the pomological world, see Chapter VII. 



A white variety of R. strigosus occurs rarely, and plants of it, 

 received from A. S. Fuller, are growing in the Cornell University 

 gardens. The form is also represented in cultivation by the 

 variety known as Meredith Queen. The fruit is small, soft, 

 amber-white, with prominent grooved drupes. 

 16. RuBus NEGLECTUS, Peck. Purple-cane Raspberry. 



Habit various, but with the stem typically long and rooting at 

 the tip, glaucous, more or less armed with prickles; leaves of 

 bearing canes 3-foliolate, of young canes 3-5-foliolate, coarsely 

 and irregularly serrate, middle leaflet petiolate, lateral ones sessile; 

 inflorescence racemose-cymose; peduncles mostly erect, armed 

 with firm, mostly recurved prickles, and in wild forms more or 

 less hirsute with glandular hairs when young, lower ones mostly 

 unequally branched; blooms usually somewhat aggregated at the 

 tip, sepals ovate, acuminate, scarcely longer than the petals; 

 fruit varying from dull purple to dark red, or even yellowish. 



Original distribution. — Probably quite generally distributed with 

 the two species which it connects. 



To this form belong the Purple -cane raspberries of cultivation. 

 By many the form is thought to be of hybrid origin, while others 

 regard it as a distinct species. From specimens before me I have 

 been able to arrange a series from wild plants and another from 

 cultivated forms, each representing an almost perfect gradation 

 from R. strigosus to E. occidentalis , and I am led to believe that 

 all are of hybrid origin. A further discussion of the group, as 

 found in cultivation, will be found in Chapter VII. 



R. STRIGOSUS XOCCIDENTALIS Var. LEUCODERMIS. 



Flowering shoots, petioles, pedicels, and calyx hirsute, with 

 glandular tipped hairs, also beset with long, slender, straight or 

 recurved prickles; leaves of bearing canes 3-foliolate, middle 

 leaflet petiolate, lateral ones sessile, mostly ovate, sharply cut- 

 serrate; inflorescence racemose, somewhat aggregated; calyx 

 somewhat pubescent and hirsute, reddish purple within, as are 

 also the base of the styles. 



