Dalibarda. ROSACEiE. 213 



1. Dalibarda repens, Linn. Creeping Dalibarda. 



Leaves obtusely crenate-dentate ; stipules laciniate ; sepals not bristly. — Linn. sp. I. 

 p. 491 ; Pursh, fl. I. p. 350 ; Torr. Jl. 1. p. 491 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 202 ; DC. prodr. 2. 

 p. 564 ; Hook.fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 184 ; Beck, hot. p. 104 ; Tor7: ^- Gr.Jl. N. Am. 1. p. 449. 

 D. violffioides, Michx. fl. \. p. 299. t. 27. Rubus Dalibarda, Linn. sp. ed. 2 ; Smith, ic. 

 ined. t. 20 ; Willd. sp. 2. p. 1090. 



Stem with short rooting joints. Leaves 1-2 inches in diameter, strigosely hairy and 

 fringed, with a deep and often closed sinus at the base : petioles 1—2 inches long ; the hairs 

 reflexed. Calyx more or less hairy, almost hispid at the base : sepals oblong. Petals obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, about twice as long as the calyx. Stamens 40 or 50 : filaments slender, 

 deciduous. Achenia white, oblong, rather obtuse, hairy when young, slightly pubescent when 

 mature, a little wrinkled transversely. Receptacle not elevated. 



Moist shady places ; common in the northern and western counties ; not found south of 

 Catskill. June - August. 



14. RUBUS. Tourn. ; Endl. gen. 6360. raspberry, and blackberry. 



[ Supposed to be derived from the Celtic word rvb, which signifies red ; the color of the fruit in many of the species.] 



Caly.t concave or flattish at the base, 5-parted ; the segments mostly imbricate in aestivation. 

 Petals 5. Achenia numerous (rarely few), pulpy and drupaceous, aggregated on a conical 

 or cylindrical spongy receptacle, either persistent or deciduous. — Perennial, mostly suf- 

 fruticose or shrubby plants, with erect or procumbent mostly prickly and biennial stems. 

 Leaves pinnately or pedately compound, often simple. Flowers white or reddish ; terminal 

 ones opening first. Fruit eatable. 



^ I. (Raspberry.) Carpels forming a somewhat hemispherical fruit, concave underneath, and falling 

 away from the dry receptacle when ripe; sometimes few in number, and falling away separately. 



1. RuBus ODORATUS, Linn. Flowering Raspberry. 



Stem sufTruticose, without prickles ; peduncles, petioles and calyx hispid with viscid 

 glandular hairs ; leaves simple, large, 3 - 5-lobed , the lobes acuminate, unequally and finely 

 toothed with mucronatc serratures ; stipules lanceolate, nearly free ; peduncles many-flowered, 

 compound ; flowers very large ; sepals appendiculale with a very long cusp, shorter than the 

 roundish (purple) petals ; fruit very broad and flat. — Linn. sp. 1. p. 194 ; Miclix. fl. 1. 

 p. 297 ; Bot. mag. t. 323 ; Pursh, fl. \. p. 348 ; Ell. sk. I. p. 570 ; Bart. fl. N. Am. 2. 

 t. 42 ; Torr. fl. l.p. 490 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 201 ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 566 ; Audub. birds of 

 America, t. 133 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 183 ; Beck, bot. p. 104 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. 

 p. 309 ; Torr. <J- Or. fl. N. Am. 1. p. 460. 



