BLACKBERRY.-RUBUS; 



Or, BRAMBLE BERRY. 



A Species of Raspberry. In Botany, a Gemis 

 of the Icosandria Polygynia Class. 



THE bramble derives its Latin name, rubus? 

 from ,the redness of the twigs and juice of the 

 fruit. Pliny informs us, " that the propaga- 

 tion of trees by layers, was taught the ancients 

 by the bramble-bush/' 



Some bow their vines, which, buried in the plain, 

 Their tops, in distant arches, rise again. 



Dryderts Virgil. 



" The berries," says Pliny, " are the food 

 of man, and have a desiccative and astringent 

 virtue, and serve as a most appropriate re- 

 medy for the gums and inflammation of the 

 tonsils." The flowers also, as well as the 

 berries of the bramble, were considered by 

 the ancients as remedies against the worst of 



