212 CLASS Xir. ORDER V. 



with short recurved prickles. The flowers grow iu erect ra- 

 cemes, with a hairy prickly stalk. The pedicels are slender, 

 an inch or two in length, covered with glandular pairs, and sup- 

 ported by lanceolate bractes. Calyx divided into five ovate, 

 concave, hairy segments, ending in an acuminate point or a lan- 

 ceolate leafet. Petals five, white, ovate or oblong, concave, 

 contracted into a short claw at base. Stamens very numerous 

 with roundish anthers and slender white filaments. Germs nu- 

 merous, covering a conic central receptacle. Styles capillary, 

 arising from the sides of the germs, persistent. Fruit a black, 

 shining compound berry, formed of pulpy acini attached to the 

 receptacle, each containing a single oblong seed. — Road sides. 

 Flowers in June. — Fruit very pleasant, ripe in August and Sep- 

 tember. — Perennial. 

 * RuBus FRONDOSTJS. Leofy Raspberry. 



R. canle aculeato, erecto ; foliis ternatis, qiiinatisve^ 

 pnhe slmpUci ; racemo foUoso, siib-decemjioro, petalis 

 orbiculatis. 



Stem prickly, erect: leaves teriiate or quinate ; pu- 

 bescence simple ; racemes leafy, about ten flowered; 

 petals orbicular. 



Stem erect, reddish, armed with straightish or slightly recurv- 

 ed prickles. Young branches covered with simple pubescence, 

 and ending in leafy racemes. Leaves on short peduncles, mostly 

 ternate, the lower ones sometimes five digitate, and upper ones 

 simple ; leafels ovate, unequally serrate, pubescent beneath, 

 nearly glabrous above, the lateral ones sessile, the terminal one 

 on a short stalk. Racemes leafy, having a leaf at the base of 

 most of the pedicels, about ten flowered, the upper flowers ex- 

 panding first. Calyx segments ovate, acuminate. Petals orbic- 

 ular, ovate, large, white. Fruit black, agreeable. 



Approaches R. villosus, and has perhaps descended from it, 

 but differs in the following marks, as well as in its habit, by 

 which it may be distinguished at sight. 



