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America. For a discussion of the characteristics of the species 

 from the standpoint of the fruit-grower, see Chapter VII. 

 15. R. STRIHOSUS, Michx. American Bed Raspberry. 



Stems more slender and flexible than in Rubus Idceus, usu- 

 ally brown or reddish brown, somewhat glaucous; beset with stiff, 



Fig. 58. Rubus strigosus (X%). 



straight prickles; flowering shoots, pedicels, calyx and petioles 

 hirsute, with glandular-tipped hairs in the wild type, though 

 largely disappearing in cultivation; leaves of bearing canes 3- 

 foliolate, of young canes mostly 5-foliolate ; middle leaflet ovate, 

 petiolate, lateral ones ovate-lanceolate, sessile, cut-serrate ; in- 

 florescence racemose, peduncles usually scattered, mostly slender 

 and drooping ; calyx slightly pubescent or hirsute ; fruit light red, 

 produced less continuously than in Rubus Idceus (Fig. 58) . 



