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mention of it is found in both English and American horticultural 

 journals since that date. For a discussion of its horticultural 

 qualities, see Chapter VI. 



20. R. SPECTABiLis, Pursh. — Salmouberry. 



Stems rather robust, 5-10 feet (15-30 decimeters) high, spar- 

 ingly armed with straight or ascending prickles; leaves 3- 

 foliolate, or occasionally simple, thin, glabrate beneath; leaflets 

 petiolate, ovate, acute or acuminate, doubly incised -serrate, and 

 often 2-3-lobed, the veins beneath, also the petioles and peduncles 

 sparingly villous-pubescent; stipules linear; flowers solitary or in 

 pairs, red or purple, large and showy; sepals broadly ovate, acute, 

 or with a short acumination, much shorter than the petals ; fruit 

 large, sub-conical, red or yellow; styles long, persistent (Fig. 60). 



Original distrihution. — The Pacific coast from California north- 

 ward to Alaska. 



Professor C. V. Piper, of the Washington Agricultural College, 

 writes: "This is the ' Salmonberry, ' and not R. parviflorus, as per 

 Botany of California. There are two varieties, one with salmon- 

 colored berries, whence the name ; the other with dark wine-red 

 berries. The former are better flavored, the latter having a bitter 

 aftertaste. Both occur growing together, and are not to be dis- 

 tinguished save by the color of the fruit. The plant is confined to 

 swamps and stream banks." 



A more or less densely tomentose and silky form is also re- 

 corded — Var. Menziesii (Hook), Watson. 



This plant was introduced in England in 1827, and has been 

 frequently referred to in the horticultural journals of that country. 

 According to the Journal of Botany* it has become naturalized in 

 Kent, where it is locally known as '^Woodman's Rose." For fur- 

 ther mention of it, see Chapter VI. 



21. R. ROS.EFOLIUS, Smith. — Rose- leaved Raspberry. "Strawberry- 



Raspberry." R. sorhifolius, Maxim. (See Fig. 28, p. 149.) 

 A low plant 1-2 feet (3-6 decimeters) high, forming dense 

 clumps from the numerous suckers produced; stems and branches 

 covered with recurved prickles; leaves evergreen in its native 

 habitat, pinnate, leaflets 5-7, or 3 at the ends of the flowering 

 shoots, sessile or the end one petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 sharply and doubly serrate, the under side green, with scarcely 



*Vol. 19, p. 251. 



