RASPBERRY-BUSH.-RUBUS 

 ID.EUS. 



Botany, a Genus of the Icosandria Poly- 

 gynla Class. 



THE raspberry was .but little noticed by the 

 ancients, and that principally on account of 

 it's medical virtues. Pliny does not consider 

 it of so much importance as the bramble, in 

 mentioning which he says, "there is a third 

 sort of bramble, which the Greeks call 

 Idcea, after Mount Ida. This fruit is 

 smaller than the other bramble-berries, with 

 less thorns on the stem, and these not so 

 sharp or hooked. The flowers of this ras- 

 pis," he continues, " being tempered with 

 honey, are good to be laid to watery and 

 blood-shotten eyes, as also the Erysipelas. 

 Being taken inwardly, and drunk with 

 water, it is comfortable medicine to a weak 

 stomach/' 



The red-raspberry is indigenous to this 

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