334 BUSH-FRUITS 



are gathered each year in great quantities. It is locally called 

 blackberry, although it is really a dewberry." 



32. R. HISPIDUS, L. Running Swamp Blackberry. 



Stems slender, scarcely woody, long and trailing, bearing 

 numerous small reflexed prickles; stipules linear, conspicuous; 

 leaflets 3, rarely pedately 5, smooth, thickish, mostly persistent 

 during winter, obovate, obtuse, coarsely serrate, entire toward the 

 base ; flowering shoots mostly glabrous, often bristly, and even 

 glandular above when young, several flowered; flowers small, 

 sepals ovate, mucronate, half the length of the obovate, white 

 petals; fruit of few grains, dark red or purplish (Fig. 65). 



Distribution. In low woods or swampy ground from Nova 

 Scotia to Georgia, and westward to eastern Kansas and Minnesota. 



A pretty species, of interest to botanists only. 



33. R. SETOSUS, Bigelow. R. hispidus var. setosus, Torr. & Gray. 



R. hispidus var. suberectus, Peck. 



Stem erect or recurved, somewhat woody, densely beset with 

 stiff bristles and long recurved prickles, which extend to the 

 petioles and midrib of leaflets in young snoots, upper portions of 

 plant glandular even on young shoots. Leaflets of bearing wood 

 3, oblong -obovate, obtuse or often acute and long-pointed at base, 

 serrate towards the tips, sometimes nearly entire at base ; leaflets 

 of new shoots mostly 5, sharply serrate, acute or acuminate, veins 

 prominent; branchlets and pedicels bristly and glandular, several 

 flowered ; flowers small, sepals ovate, mucronate, half the length 

 of the oblanceolate white petals; fruit black, rather larger than 

 in R. hispidus. 



Distribution. Swampy ground, and even in dry pastures in 

 New York and New England. 



34. R. LACINIATUS, Willd. Cut-leaved, or Parsley -leaved Black- 



berry. 



Stems procumbent, terete, glaucous, armed with strong re- 

 curved prickles, sometimes perennial at base ; leaves pedately and 

 pinnately foliolate, much parted and divided, sparingly villous, 

 especially at the margins, persistent and evergreen when pro- 

 tected; petioles pubescent but not glandular; inflorescence cy- 

 mose ; pedicels bearing very short stalked glands, calyx somewhat 

 pubescent and aculeate with slender prickles; sepals ovate -lan- 

 ceolate, with a long foliaceous tip, exceeding the white obovate 

 petals ; fruit black, large, of good quality. 



This is generally supposed to be a form of the European black- 

 berry, but its origin is in ;dpubt. It was found in the Botanic 



