330 BUSH-FRUITS 



Found wild at Ithaca, N. Y. ; probably widely distributed. 

 Represented in cultivation by Bartel, Gen. Grant and Neverfail. 



29. E. ENSLENII, Tratt. E. Baileyanus, Britton. R. villosus 



var. humifusus, Torr. & Gray. 



"Procumbent or ascending, pubescent or nearly glabrous, the 

 stem slender, sparingly prickly, the upper leaves almost invaria- 

 bly unifoliolate, and the racemes but 1-few-flowered. The leaf- 

 lets are broadly ovate or oval, acute or more commonly obtuse, 

 thin, the terminal ones usually cordate, or all of them rounded 

 or obtuse at the base; fruit small. The plant appears to be 

 always a dry wood species." 



30. E. TRIVIALIS, Michx. Low Bush Blackberry, Southern Dew- 



berry. 



Stems shrubby, procumbent, terete, beset with strongly re- 

 curved or reflexed prickles, glaucous or hirsute with glandular 

 tipped hairs and bristles; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, glabrate, 

 mostly 3-foliolate on bearing canes, 3-5-foliolate on young canes; 

 leaflets ovate-oblong or lanceolate, sharply serrate; veins, peti- 

 oles and peduncles bearing numerous stout, recurved or reflexed 

 prickles; inflorescence cymose, 1-4-flowered; sepals ovate, acumi- 

 nate or mucronate, slightly pubescent, but not prickly; petals 

 obovate, twice as long as the sepals; fruit oblong, black, good. 

 (Fig. 63.) 



Original distribution. Sandy soil, Virginia to Florida, and 

 west to Texas and Missouri. 



This is the common dewberry of the southern states. It is 

 represented in cultivation by the Manatee and Wilson's White. 



31. E. VITIFOLIUS, Cham & Schlecht. Pacific Coast Dewberry 



or Blackberry. R. ursinus, Cham & Schlecht. R. macro- 

 petalus, Dougl. 



Hermaphrodite plant. Stems becoming woody, weak or trail- 

 ing, 5-20 feet (1.5-6 meters) long, terete, glaucous; fruiting 

 branches numerous, armed with straight, rather slender prickles, 

 mostly pubescent; leaves 3-foliolate, rarely 5-foliolate on young 

 canes, often simple and 3-lobed on flowering branchlets; leaflets 

 ovate to oblong, coarsely toothed, smooth or somewhat tomen- 

 tose; veins, petioles, peduncles, and often the calyx, aculeate, 

 with slender prickles; stipules oblanceolate to linear, sometimes 

 long and toothed; sepals ovate or ovate -lanceolate, acuminate, 

 sometimes foliaceously tipped, then exceeding the petals ; fruit 

 oblong, black, sweet (Fig. 64) . 



Pistillate plant. Leaves all 3-foliolate, narrower, more 

 sharply serrate, thinner and less pubescent, flowers smaller. 



