412 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Riibus. 



a little downy beneath. Slipitlas elliptical, obtuse, erect. 

 Flower crimson, on a solitary, simple, downy and minutely 

 glandular stalk. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, spreading, 

 downy, frequently more than 5. Pet. longer tlian the calyx, 

 roundish, with a notch at the end ; sometimes jagged, as repre- 

 sented in Fl. Lapp. Stam. club-shaped. Berry of several large 

 grains, of a purplish amber colour, partaking of the flavour of 

 the Raspberry and Strawberry, highly fragrant, and much 

 esteemed in Sweden for making a kind of wine, reserved for the 

 tables of the great. Seech large, kidney-shaped, very obscurely 

 wrinkled. 



14. 'R. ChamcBJno?-us. Mountain Bramble, or Cloud- 

 berry. 



Leaves simple, plaited, lobed. Stem without prickles, 

 simple, single-flowered. Segments of the calyx ovate. 



R. Chamaemorus. Linn. Sp. PL 708. H. Lapp. n. 208. ed. 2. 173. 



t.ly.f.]. Willd.v.2.l000. Fl.Br.545. Engl. Bot.v.\0.t.7l6. 



Light/. 266. t. 13./. 2. Hook. Scot. 161. Lo7id. 1. 136. Dicks. 



H. Sice. fuse. 2. 8. Fl. Dan. t. 1. Ehrh. Plvjtoph. 45. 

 R. humilis palustris, fructu ex mbro flavescente. Rudb. It. Lapp. 9. 



Jet. Suec. 1720.99. 

 Chamsemorus. iJaii %«. 260. ^er. £/n. 1273./. «/so 1630. Clus. 



Pann. 1 1 7./. 1 1 8. Hist. r. 1 . 1 1 8./. 

 Chamaerubus foliis ribes. Bank. Pin. 480. 

 Vaccinia nubis. Ger. Em. 1420, {not 1396.)/. bad. 

 Morus Norvagica. Tillands Ab. 46. 7c. 159, good. 



In turfy alpine bogs. 



On the loftiest mountains of Scotland, Wales, and the north of 

 England. It indicates slate on the moors, according to Mr. Bi- 

 cheno. 



Perennial. June. 



Roots slender, creeping extensively, much branched, sending up 

 several herbaceous, simple, leafy, single-flowered, downy stems, 

 near a span high. Leaves stalked, heart-shaped, plaited, 

 5-lobed, rugged, sharply serrated ; a little hairy beneath. Sti- 

 pulas oval, obtuse. Fl. wiiite. Cal. downy externally only ; 

 partly notched. Pet. elliptical. Barren Jl. with rudiments of 

 pistils ; fertile ones on separate stems, (though, according to 

 Dr. Solander, from the same roots,) with rudiments of stamens, 

 as described in Fl. Br. and delineated by Professor Hooker. 

 Fruit large, tawny, agreeably acid and mucilaginous, with the 

 flavour of tamarinds. The hard outer coat of the seed is slightly 

 rugged, very minutely dotted ; inner more conspicuously so, 

 according to Dr. Hooker, who represents the rudiments of 2 

 kernels, in one seed, which, if constant, might more probably 

 prove the seeds to be nuts, and the grains drupas, than any 



