Rosaceae 155 



pearing in May and early June when the 

 stems are but a few inches high, with the 

 leaves hardly unfolded; in midsummer it 

 frequently flowers again from branched 

 stems 8-10 inches high and appearing like- 

 a different plant. 



Stems herbaceous, trailing or 



ascending, unarmed, 6-18 inches 

 Amencanus 



(Pers.) or more long, somewhat hairy. 



Britton. Leaves petioled, 3 -foliate or 



Dwarf rarely 5-foliate leaflets rhombic- 



Raspberry. 



ovate, smooth or nearly so, 



acute, the lateral ones mostly rounded, 

 terminal, wedge-shaped at the base, all 

 sharply serrate. Flowers 1-3 on a slender 

 glandular-hairy peduncle, J an inch or less 

 broad; petals 5-7, white, spatulate-oblong, 

 erect, rather longer than the acuminate 

 calyx lobes; fruit red-purple, half an inch 

 long. 



In cold moist woods and swampy places 

 throughout the region ; flowering in May and 

 June. 



