VARIOUS DEWBERRIES 



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n.\ tritnalis. 



short, Btraight, prickly peduncles. In cultivation, this Bpecies 

 has given the Manatee, Wilson White and Bauer. 



In the southwest, from Missouri to Texas, there is a curious 

 form of dewberry which I have :it various linns intended t«> make 

 the type of :i new Bpecies, but which 

 may be a Beries of hybrid forms be- 

 tween /.'. trivialis and J!, argutus. Ii 



ach the range of variation of the 

 well-known hybrid of the northern dew- 

 berry and blackberry, and until I have 

 opportunity to study the plants in the 

 field, i Bhould prefer to call it :i hybrid. 

 It is sometimes trailing, and Bome- 



sub- erect. It is variously pubes- 

 eent, is usually armed, and sometimes 

 hispid : the flowers are sometimes two 

 or three, and sometimes in elongated 



-: the leaves are very variable, 

 ranging from the narrow forms of Borne strains of H. trivialis 



■ to 1 he broad* r forms of E. argutus. 



BB. Fruit red and small, scarcely eatable. 

 5. Ki his hispidus Linn. Sp. PI. 493 L753 Pig. 73 



is scarcely woody, bul lasting over winter, perfectly 

 fe, and besel with Bmall, reflexed, weak bristles, Bending 

 up many short and leafy flowering Bhoots ; leaflets mostly three, 

 obovate, blunl and Bhining, firm and thick in texture, and 

 tending t" be evergreen ; flowers small and few on leafless pe- 

 duncles ; fruit of few grains, red or purple and bout. Sand} 



• and low \\ I- in the northern Btates, and southward i" 



the mountains of South Carolina. Linnreus' specimen is well 

 • •I in liis herbarium In London, and is properly under- 

 by American botan 



Blackberries : characterized by erect or strict growth I N 



often mi exception , mul the plants propagating from 



sin! 



/' \d rather than thorny, the fruit reddish. 



R elow, Fl. Boat. ed. 2, 108 1824 I 

 -i . 

 An ascending or almost erecl low growing plant, tl Ider 



