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mention of it is found in both English and American horticultural 

 journals since that date. For a discussion of its horticultural 

 qualities, see Chapter VI. 



20. R. SPECTABILIS, Pursh. Salmonberry. 



Stems rather robust, 5-10 feet (15-30 decimeters) high, spar- 

 ingly armed with straight or ascending prickles; leaves 3- 

 foliolate, or occasionally simple, thin, glabrate beneath ; leaflets 

 petiolate, ovate, acute or acuminate, doubly incised-serrate, and 

 often 2-3-lobed, the veins beneath, also the petioles and peduncles 

 sparingly villous-pubescent; stipules linear; flowers solitary or in 

 pairs, red or purple, large and showy; sepals broadly ovate, acute, 

 or with a short acumination, much shorter than the petals; fruit 

 large, sub-conical, red or yellow; styles long, persistent (Fig. 60). 



Original distribution. The Pacific coast from California north- 

 ward to Alaska. 



Professor C. V. Piper, of the Washington Agricultural College, 

 writes: "This is the < Salmonberry,' and not R. parviflorus, as per 

 Botany of California. There are two varieties, one with salmon- 

 colored berries, whence the name; the other with dark wine-red 

 berries. The former are better flavored, the latter having a bitter 

 aftertaste. Both occur growing together, and are not to be dis- 

 tinguished save by the color of the fruit. The plant is confined to 

 swamps and stream banks." 



A more or less densely tomentose and silky form is also re- 

 corded Var. Menziesii (Hook), Watson. 



This plant was introduced in England in 1827, and has been 

 frequently referred to in the horticultural journals of that country. 

 According to the Journal of Botany* it has become naturalized in 

 Kent, where it is locally known as "Woodman's Rose." For fur- 

 ther mention of it, see Chapter VI. 



21. R. ROS.EFOLIUS, S-n'th. Rose-leaved Raspberry. "Strawberry- 



Raspberry." R. sorbifolius, Maxim. (See Fig. 28, p. 149.) 

 A low plant 1-2 feet (3-6 decimeters) high, forming dense 

 clumps from the numerous suckers produced ; stems and branches 

 covered with recurved prickles; leaves evergreen in its native 

 habitat, pinnate, leaflets 5-7, or 3 at the ends of the flowering 

 shoots, sessile or the end one petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 sharply and doubly serrate, the under side green, with scarcely 



*Vol. 19, p. 251. 



