ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceac. 



and all but a few of the upper ones have from three to 

 seven leaflets. The flowers are about an inch across and 

 the petals vary a good deal, being sometimes broad and 

 sometimes rather long and narrow. This is common from 

 southern California to British Columbia. 



In shady mountain woods we find this 

 Thimble-berry t n 1 



Rubus parvifldrus attractive plant, which is called Salmon- 

 White berry farther east. It also resembles the 

 Spring, summer eastern Thimble-berry, but its flowers are 

 west, etc. prettier, for they are white instead of 

 purplish-pink. It has several branching stems, from two 

 to six feet high, the lower ones woody, with shreddy bark 

 and the upper stems pale green, slightly rough and hairy, 

 but with no thorns. The large maple-like leaves are thin 

 in texture, but almost velvety, with hairs on the veins of 

 the under side and on the leaf-stalks, and are bright green, 

 with three or four, toothed lobes. The flowers are occa- 

 sionally pinkish and measure about two inches across, and 

 grow, a few together, at the ends of long flower-stalks. 

 The petals are slightly crumpled and there are usually 

 five of them, but both sepals and petals vary a good deal 

 in number; the green sepals are velvety, pale inside and 

 tipped with tails, and the pale yellow center is composed 

 of a roundish disk, covered with pistils and surrounded by 

 a fringe of numerous yellow stamens. The fruit is a 

 flattish, red raspberry, disappointing to the taste, ^for it is 

 mostly seeds. This is found as far east as Michigan. 



. A charming little vine, without prickles, 



Raspberry tne stems from one to three feet long and 



Rubus ped&tus rooting at the joints, trailing over rocks 

 White and moss and creeping along the ground, 



Summer ornamented with pretty leaves, with from 



Northwest _ , _ A . .111-^1 



three to rive leaflets, and sprinkled with 



white flowers, half an inch or more across, and often also 

 with juicy, red raspberries. This grows in rich soil, in 

 mountain woods. 



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