128 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
fields where it abounds. On mele managed farms, howeyer, the plant is 
becoming somewhat rare 
t 
prickles; youn ranches and _ peduncles 
glandular-villous; leaves 3-foliolate or pe- 
dately 5-foliolate; leaflets ovate or lance- 
oblong, coe beneath, Sa petioles and 
midribs aculeate; racemes elongated, many- 
‘geaced.. 
Vittovs Rvusus. Blackberry. Common 
1 2 Brier. Bramble. 
ut 85 Fr. La Ronce. Germ. Der Brombeerstrauch. 
Span. Zarza. 
Root creeping. Stem 3-6 or 8 feet high, stout, ridged or angular and somewhat fur- 
rowed. Leaflets 2-3 0r 4 Bats. long, mostly acute. Racemes rather large, sometimes 
. Petals —_— én ovoid-oblong or cylindric—sometime * = an inch long— 
changing from gree’ or purplish, and finally black when mat 
pol tent, 2 thtokets anny borders of woods : thebontiont the United States. FI. May 
Obs. — one knows the common Brier. _ root, both of this and 
the preceding, being moderately astringent, is popular remedy for 
diarrhoea and mild dysentery. The ripe fruit SAEs a glans nt jam, 
which is also considered salutary in Sa cases. Even the knots which 
are formed on the branches, from the puncture of insects, were formerly 
carried by credulous sim raphesten as a sort of amulet or charm against the 
tooth-ache! The plant, nevertheless, is often something of a nuisance on 
- r farms, from its tendency to to a ead and 
OS erect e size 
and shape of the fruit varies exceedingly ; apparently attaining its 
Shae perfection near the sea-shore. Latterly, considerable attention 
been give n to the cultivation of ae of the tines varieties of this 
t. The kind eat ” or “ New Rochelle Blackberry,” 
isa splendid Fonit and is now favities abundant in = _ ets of 
cities. It is sons of ey attention of every fruit-grow 
% R. cuneifo’lius, Pursh. Stem subterete ; branches a leaves 
fontder ee as = tort mentose beneath; racemes few-flowered. 
Wiss sivas Rvusvus. Sand Blackberry. 
Stem 3-5 feet high, branched. Leaflets mostly tespatas -2 inches long, cuneate, and 
te use les half pga nag length. 
metimes tinged with red. Frait oval, about half an inch long, black when 
ore, anid and well re 
oe Ww Je ersey and southwar 
Fie. 85. Fruit of the Blackberry bus villosus divided to show that its mado 
| Bumerous small small drupes, ve acid A end hiner dh ~, 
