154 Rosaceae 



base, smooth or sparingly hairy. Flowers 

 usually solitary, on long slender pedicels, 

 white or rosy, J of an inch or more broad ; 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate, entire or incised, 

 exceeding the petals; berry of 1-6 large 

 red, juicy drupelets. 



Frequent throughout the region in cold 

 damp woods, forming masses of considerable 

 size; flowering during June. 



Stem low, herbaceous, unarmed, 

 Rubus 



arcticusL. finel Y hail T 3~i inches high, 

 Arctic sometimes leafless below. Leaves 



Raspberry. 3 -foliate, leaflets sessile or short- 

 stalked, rhombic-ovate or obovate, coarse- 

 ly and unequally serrate or slightly 

 lobed, f i inch long. Flowers solitary or 

 occasionally 2, slender-peduncled ; petals 

 obovate, pink, J-i inch long; sepals 

 acute, equalling or shorter than the petals, 

 reflexed; berry light red, fragrant and 

 edible. 



In cold mossy thickets and swamps 

 throughout the region, the first flowers ap- 



