ROSE FAMILY 



is bright red, velvety with white hairs and crowned 

 with a style. The drupes readily separate from one 

 another and also from the receptacle ; in flavor are a 

 sharp acid. 



The marked personal characteristic ol Rubus odo- 

 ratus is the astonishing abundance of glandular hairs 

 upon the recent shoots, the leaves, the petioles, the 

 flower-stalk and the calyx. Botanically, glands are 

 cellular bodies containing some peculiar secretion, and 

 situated on or below the cuticle, which covers the sur- 

 face of a plant. Stalked glands are these little bodies 

 elevated upon a stalk or stem. 



WILD RED RASPBERRY 



Rubus strigbsus. 



Low, erect, three to six feet high, loving dry or rorky situ- 

 ations. Ranges from Newfoundland and Labrador to British 

 Columbia, south in the Alleghanies to North Carolina and south- 

 west to New Mexico. Suckers freely. 



Stems. — Biennial, branched ; new shoots densely clothed with 

 weak glandular bristles and older stems with small hooked 

 prickles. New shoots and branchlcts red with a bloom ; old 

 stems pale, dull yellowish brown. 



Leaves. — Alternate, pinnately compound ; leaflets five in 

 lower leaves, three in upper leaves, two and a half to three inches 

 long ; ovate or ovate-oblong, rounded at base, coarsely and ir- 

 regularly serrate or slightly lobed, acute or acuminate at apex ; 

 lateral leaflets are sessile and bilateral; midvein, primary and 

 secondary veins depressed above, prominent beneath ; when 

 full grown the leaves are a bright yellow green, smooth above, 

 pale green or whitish, downy beneath. In autumn they become 

 a rich vinous reel, sometimes touched with yellow, or fall with 

 little change of color. Petiole armed with tiny bristles and 

 prickles. Stipules narrow and deciduous. 



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