ROSE FAMILY 



roses, but there are no prickles on the light green hairy stem, 

 and the pale green decorative leaves are unmistakably 

 five-fingered. 



ROSACES ROSE FAMILY 



Rubus frondosus, Bigelow. 



White 



Wild Blackberry. 

 June 

 Fruit ripe August 



Rubus: the Roman name, allied to ruber, red. 

 Frondosus: Latin, signifying to be full of leaves or fronds. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: thickets, open ground. 



THE VINE: prostrate, erect, or partially erect, when it 

 finally trails over tall bushes; the runners with short, 

 glandular hairs and stout prickles. 



THE LEAVES: light or dark green; alternate; three to five 

 divided, the leaflets ovate or tending to oblong, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, with short hairs beneath, coarsely 

 and unequally serrate to more or less round-toothed; bracts 

 very persistent. 



THE FLOWERS: less than an inch wide; five deciduous 

 petals; numerous stamens. 



THE FRUIT: a drupe; not quite round, white green to red 

 at first, becoming black at maturity, slightly sour but 

 good-tasting. 



Everybody thinks he has had sufficient experience with 

 them, to know the Blackberry vines. But, botanically, 

 it is another story. Mr. Bicknell has minutely described 

 the variations of thirty-seven different Nantucket species, 

 including this, the frondosus, which is, perhaps, the easiest 

 one to identify. 



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