ROSE FAMILY. Rosacese. 



south to Ga., and west to Mich. The name ruhus is an 

 ancient one for bramble, from ruber, red. 

 Cloudberry, or ^"® ^^ *^^^ interesting relatives of the 

 Mountain common raspberry which finds its home 



Raspberry among the clouds of high mountain-tops, 



Ruhus Chamce. j^ j^ f^^^^^j ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^j^^ ^yj^.^^ 

 niorus . . 



vyiii^g Mountains and on the coast of eastern 



June-July Maine. The cloudberry is another in- 



stance of a break in the family rule : the 

 flowers are staminate on one plant and pistillate on 

 another. The solitary white flower is about an inch 

 broad. The plant-stem is herbaceous, not shrubby, and 

 the leaves are rather roundish with 5-9 lobes ; the stem 

 is unbranched and with only 2-3 leaves. The fruit is a 

 pale wine red, or when nearly ripe, amber color, and 

 possesses a delicate flavor ; the lobes are few. 3-10 

 inches high. Me. to N. Y., north to the Arctic regions. 



^ , , A delicate woodland plant with a white 



Dalibarda , . ... , „,.,-, 



repeals blossom like that of the wild strawberry, 



White and densely woolly or fine-hairy stems 



June- and leaves ; the latter are dark green, 



September heart-shaped, and wavy or scallop-toothed. 

 In form they closely resemble those of the common blue 

 violet. The 1-2 white flowers about ^ inch in diameter 

 are borne on long fuzzy, sometimes ruddy stems ; it is 

 said that they fertilize in the bud before opening. 2-4 

 inches high. In the northern woods, from Me. , south to 

 southern N. J., and west to Ohio and Mich. Found in 

 Langdon Park, Plymouth, N. H. 



A rather tall, fine-hairy plant with an- 

 White Avens gular, branching stem, insignificant five- 

 Geum album p^taled white flowers, and three-divided 

 White f , . , 



June-August leaves, except the simple uppermost ones ; 



the root-leaves of 3-5 leaflets, all toothed. 

 The flowers succeeded by a burlike densely briscly seed- 

 receptacle. 18-24 inches high. On the borders of woods 

 and shaded roads. Common in the north, but south 

 only to Ga. 



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