Genus 28. 



ROSE FAMILY. 



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4. Rubus strigosus Michx. Wild Red Raspberry. Fig. 2291. 



Rubus strigosus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 297. 1803. 

 Rubus idaeus var. strigosus Maxim. Bull, Acad. St. 

 Petersb. 17 : 161. 1872. 



Stems shrubby, biennial, branched, 3°-6° high, 

 usually densely clothed with weak glandular bris- 

 tles, or the older stems with small hooked prickles. 

 Stipules narrow, deciduous ; leaves petiolcd, pin- 

 nately 3-S-foliolate, rarely simple and 3-lobed ; leaf- 

 lets ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, sharply and 

 irregularly serrate or slightly lobed, rounded at the 

 base, l'-3' long, whitish-pubescent beneath; inflores- 

 cence terminal and axillary, racemose or paniculate, 

 loose ; pedicels slender, curving in fruit ; flowers 

 4"-6" broad ; petals white, ascending, about equal- 

 ling the spreading acuminate, mostly hispid, velvety 

 sepals ; fruit elongated-hemispheric, light red, rarely 

 white. 



In dry or rocky situations, Newfoundland and Lab- 

 rador to British Columbia, south in the Alleghanies to 

 North Carolina, and in the Rocky Mountains to New 

 Mexico. Ascends to 5500 ft. in North Carolina. The 

 original of the Cuthbert and Hansall raspberries. Mul- 

 berry. May-Iuly. Fruit ripe July-Sept. 



Northern races closely resemble the Old World Rubus 

 idaeus L, 



5. Rubus neglectus Peck. Purple Wild Rasp- 

 berry. Fig. 2292. 



Rubus neglectus Peck, Rep. Reg. Univ. N. Y. 22 : 53. 



1869. 

 Rubus strigosus X occidentalis Aust. Bull. Torr. Club i : 



31. 1870. 



Intermediate between the preceding species and the 

 next, probably originating as a hybrid between 

 them. Stems usually elongated, recurved and root- 

 ing at the tip, glaucous, sparingly bristly and prickly; 

 leaflets ovate, sharply and irregularly incised-serrate, 

 very white-pubescent beneath, i'-t,' long ; inflorescence 

 corymbose, rather compact, terminal and often axil- 

 lary; pedicels erect or ascending even in fruit; flow- 

 ers 4"-5" broad ; petals white, erect ; fruit nearly 

 hemispherical, dark-red or purple (yellowish in a 

 cultivated form). 



In dry or rocky soil, Vermont to Ontario, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Ohio. The original of the Carolina, Gladstone 

 and other raspberries. June-July. Fruit ripe July-Aug. 



6. Rubus occidentalis L. Black Raspberry. 

 Thimble-berry. Fig. 2293. 



Rubus occidentalis L. Sp, PI. 493. 1753. 

 Rubus idaeus var. americanus Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2 : 

 196. 1825. 



Very glaucous, stems cane-like, recurved, often 

 rooting at the tip, sometimes io°-i2° long, spar- 

 ingly armed with small hooked prickles, rarely 

 slightly glandular-bristly above. Stipules setaceous, 

 deciduous; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate (rarely S-f olio- 

 late) ; leaflets ovate, acuminate, coarsely incised- 

 serrate, very white-pubescent beneath; flowers as in 

 the preceding species ; inflorescence corymbose, com- 

 pact, usually only terminal; pedicels short, ascending 

 or erect in fruit; fruit purple-black (rarely yellow), 

 depressed-hemispheric. 



New Brunswick to Quebec, Ontario, Georgia and Mis- 

 souri. Ascends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. The original of 

 the Gregg, Hilborn and other raspberries. May-June. 

 Fruit ripe July. Called also scotch-cap and black-cap. 

 Purple raspberry. Black-berry. 



Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim., the wine-berry, of 

 Japan, a densely glandular species, has locally escaped from cultivation 



