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RUBUS, 
“| Dae cup is formed of one leaf, divided into five oblong, fpreading, permanent fegments. The 
flower is compofed of five roundifh petals inferted in the cup. The fruit is compofed of 
numerous grains, 
The Common Bramble. 
Rubus vulgaris. 
The fhrub is weak and trailing. 
The branches are befet with harp thorns. | 
The leaves ftand three on a footftalk ; and are 
oblong, broad, ferrated, and fharp-pointed. 
The flower is large and flefh-coloured; and 
the fruit, when ripe, is black. 
It is every where in hedges. 
Go'Be NU: S 
C. Bauhine calls it Rubus vulgaris, feu Rubus 
Sruciu nigro. 
We have three other fpecies wild in different 
parts of England. 
1, White-berried Bramble, Rubus vulgaris major 
fruétu albo, The leaves longer and paler, 
2. The Dewberry-Buth, Rubus minor frudéu ce- 
ruleo. ‘The fruit compofed of few grains. 
3. The wild Rafpberry, Rubus ideus’ Jpinofus 
Fructu rubro. In woods in the north. 
XXV. 
S°oPePN D.L HeBsR Ese: 
EUONYMUS. 
4 Bes cup is divided into five roundifh fegments. The flower is compofed of four oval petals, 
The fruit is a fquare juicy capfule in each of the four cells, containing a fingle feed. 
Spindletree. 
Euonymus. 
It is a fmall hedge-fhrub. : 
The bark of the trunk is of a pale brown; 
that on the young fhoots green: and thefe have 
four redifh brown ridges, which make them ap- 
pear fquare. 
GoEo NUgsS 
The leaves are oblong, moderately broad, and 
of a fine frefh green. 
The flowers are very fmall, and greenifh. 
The fruit is large, red, and f{quare. 
It is common in hedges. 
C. Bauhine calls.it Huonymus vulgaris: granis 
rubris. 
XXVI. 
BLADDERNUT. 
STAPHYLODENDRON. 
HE cup is divided into five coloured fegments. The flower is compofed of five oblong petals. 
T The fruit is compofed of diftiné bladders with pointed tops; in each of which are roundifh 
feeds. 
The Bladdernut. 
Staphylodrendon. 
The tree rifes to no great height. 
The leaves are beautifully pinnated; and the 
pinnz are oblong, ferrated, and fharp-pointed. 
The flowers are fmall. 
Ge Ey: U 
The fruit is large;.and the bladders, when 
ripe, are of a pale greenifh colour, tinged with 
red or brown, 
We have it wild in England, but not com- 
mon. 
S XXVIL. 
EL M. 
ULM U S. 
apt cup is forme 
the outfide, and, for the greateft part, tubular, enlarging upwards: there are no petals. 
‘ and the fruit is fatted, and has a fingle feed, 
filaments ftand in this cup 5 
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d of a fingle leaf, and divided into five fegments at the edge: it is rough on 
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