120 ROSACE js. (ROSE FAMILY.) 



2. F. Vesca, L. Achenia superficial on the conical or liemispherical fruiting 

 receptacle (not sunk in pits). Fields and rocks, common : indigenous, especial- 

 ly northward. Leaves thin ; the wild fruit often long and slender. (Eu.) 



13. DAL.IBARDA, L. DALIBAKDA. 



Calyx deeply 5 - 6-parted, 3 of the divisions larger and toothed. Petals 5, 

 sessile, deciduous. Stamens many. Ovaries 5-10, becoming nearly dry seed- 

 like drupes: styles terminal, deciduous. Low perennials, with creeping and 

 densely tufted stems or rootstocks, and roundish-heart-shaped crenate leaves on 

 slender petioles. Flowers 1-2, white, on scape-like peduncles. (Named in 

 honor of Dalibard, a French botanist.) 



1. D. repeilS, L. Downy; sepals spreading in the flower, converging 

 and enclosing the fruit. Wooded banks; common northward. June -Aug. 

 Leaves much like those of a stemless Violet. 



14. RUB US, L. BKAMBLB. 



Calyx 5-parted, without bractlets. Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens numerous. 

 Achenia usually many, collected on a spongy or succulent receptacle, becoming 

 small drupes: styles nearly terminal. Perennial herbs, or somewhat shrubby 

 plants, with white (rarely reddish) flowers, and edible fruit. (Name from the 

 Celtic rub, red.) 



{ 1. Fruit, or collective mass of drupes, falling off whole from tJie diy receptacle when 



ripe, or of few grains which fall separately. (RASPBERRY.) 

 * Leaves simple : flowers large : prickles none : fruit and receptacle fiat, 



1. R. OdoratllS, L. (PURPLE FLOWERING-RASPBERRY.) Stem shrub- 

 by (3 - 5 high) ; branches, staUcs, and calyx bristly with glandular clammy liairs ; 

 leaves 3 - 5-lobed, the lobes pointed and minutely toothed, the middle one pro- 

 longed ; peduncles many-flowered ; calyx-lobes tipped with a long narrow ap- 

 pendage ; petals rounded, purple rose-color ; fruit ripening several reddish grains. 

 Rocky banks, common northward. June -Aug. Flowers showy, 2' broad. 



2. R. Nutkanus, Mo^ino. (WHITE FLOWERING-RASPBERRY.) 

 Glandular, scarcely bristly; leaves almost equally 5-lobed, coarsely toothed; 

 peduncles few-flowered; petals oval, white. (R. parviflorus, Nutt.) Upper 

 Michigan, and northwestward along the Lakes. Much like No. 1 ; but smaller. 



3 R. Chamse moms, L. (CLOUD-BERRY.) Herbaceous, low, dicecious ; 

 stem simple, 2-3-leaved, \-fioivered; leaves roundish-kidney-form, somewhat 5- 

 lobed, serrate, wrinkled ; calyx-lobes pointless ; petals oltovate, while ; fruit of 

 few grains, amber-color. White Mountains of New Hampshire at the limit of 

 trees : also Lubeck, Maine, and northward. (Eu.) 



* * Leaflets (pinnately) 3-5: petals small, erect, white. 

 - Stems annual, herbaceous, not prickly : fruit of few separate grains, 



4. R. triflorilS, Richardson. (DWARF RASPBERRY.) Stems ascending 

 (6' -12' high) or trailing; leaflets 3 (or pedately 5), rhombic-ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, coarsely doubly serrate, thin, smooth ; peduncle 



