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Dewberry; Low Running Blackberry 



Riihiis jprociiiiibciis I\Iuhlenberg 



Plate aib 



Stems trailing, shrubl:)y and perennial, often several feet long, armed 

 with numerous or very few prickles. Branches erect, 4 to 12 inches long, 

 slightly pubescent, often prickly and glandular. Leaves three to seven- 

 foliate, usually three-foliate; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, thin, pointed 

 at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, sharply toothed. Flowers 

 few in terminal racemes, white, about i inch broad; the five petals usually 

 as long or slightly longer than the calyx lobes. Fruit black, usually at 

 least one-half of an inch long and sometimes i inch long, fine flavored but 

 with large seeds. 



In dry soil, especially in sandy sections. Nova Scotia to Ontario and 

 Michigan, south to \^irginia, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Flowering in Alay 

 and June. Fruit ripe in June and July. 



A similar species, R u b u s h i s p i d u s Linnaeus ( Hispid or Run- 

 ning Swamp Blackberry), with the stems densely beset with weak, retrorse 

 bristles, is also common in swamps and low grounds throughout our area. 



Dalibarda; Dewdrop or False Violet 



Dali/xirdd rcpciis Linnaeus 



Plato 97l. 



Stems very slender, much tufted, several inches long. Leaves downy- 

 pubescent on both sides, three-fourths to 2 inches broad, long petioled, 

 ovate-orbicular, cordate, the margin with low, blunt or sometimes mucronu- 

 late crenations; stipules setaceous. The scapclike peduncles i to 5 inches 

 long, bearing one or two large, perfect white flowers, each flower about one- 

 half of an inch broad; calyx deeply five or six-parted, three of the divisions 

 larger than the other two or three; petals five; stamens numerous. Fruit 

 composed of five to ten nearly dry drupelets, inclosed by the calyx segments. 

 Stems also have short, recurved peduncles bearing several or numerous 

 small clcistogamous flowers. 



