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and allowed to eres 12 or 24 hours, according to the wapertie 
thick coagulmn rates from the dark clear portion, which possesses 
much higher ices rr the unfermented juice. If bottled, and the bok 
tle filled so as to ae et room for the cork, the juice will keep i in a 
cellar for a year or 
4. R. occidentalis, L. Stem suffruticose, nied Seog and leaning or 
arched, poem smooth and glaucous, armed w ed pri de ag: leaves 
innately 3- Garo 63 ba foliclates Rca Asa pi subum- 
3 llate corymbs ; often emarginate ; Gel 2 iibbochioh, ‘pitted i in 
rying. 
Western Rusvs. : Wild or Black AST: Thimble-berry. Black 
BO) ) 
get = or at ne Jong, sparingly branched, limber and often arching oyer 
the e ground and takes’ root, mostly purpli fish and pruinose or 
pcan with a nance ‘bluish-white powder. Lea most y in threes, 2—4 or 5 inches long, 
often with a loi _—* = ation, and subcordate at base, smoothish above, clothed witha 
dense glaucous tomentum beneath. Petals white. Fruit dark purple, or nearly black 
(rarely whitish “ace paaiiona ag ES when mature 
2 ones, to Georgia and Missouri ; Borders of woodlands, fence-rows, &c. Fl. May. Fr. 
wy. 
fice ‘The fruit of this is smaller and less esteemed than that of the 
The plant, however, 
O rueesly ae coe oe on all neat farms. 
2 2. Carp wi haber tn an ovoid or oblong fruit, persistent on the some- 
what juicy riceptacle ( ). 
& a Ganaden: sis, L. Stem fructicose, procumbent, armed with nume- 
recurved erkien leaves mostly 3-foliolate ; leaflets ovate- 
pon wed fruit large, sw 
Canapian Rusts. ens Running Brier. 
r 10 feet long, slender, trailing, smoothish—often several from the same 
ing = different directions, sas” giving out numerous leafy pubescent flowering 
onaen., which are ag vid erect, and 2 2—4 or 6 inches long - Leaflets mostly in threes ao 
(some times peda eb ee rum 
terminal and ona 
bose by the Ponaaion: of the lower axillary ’pedice icels. Corolla, w Fruit oblong, 
obtuse or often roundish, large (half an inch to near an inch wot onsen sartontiaeece 
mature, very succulent and sweet. 
Rocky sterile soils, old fields, &c. Canada to Virginia. Fl. May. Fr. July. ; 
Obs. Our Dewberry is a fine fruit, the earliest and the ever 
berry; but it is not the “ Dewberr 
cesius, L, : has been some confusion 
i eage Frey Prof. De Canpo.ie seems oe 
i But there 
conception 
oo wel sued with ty rm bi 
trailing stems with his naked a ankles, while 
