120 EOSACE^. (kose family.) 



2. F. Vesca, L, Achema superficial on the cmdcal or lumispherical fruiting 

 receptacle (not sunk in pits). — Fields and rocks, common : indigenous, especial- 

 ly northward. — Leares thin ; the wild fruit often long and slender. (Eu.) 



13. DAL.IBARDA, L. Dalibabda. 



Calyx deeply 5 - 6-parted, 3 of the divisions larger and toothed. Petals 5, 

 sessile, deciduous. Stamens many. Ovaries 5 - 10, becoming nearly dry seed- 

 like diupes: styles terminal, deciduous. — Low perennials, with creeping and 

 densely tufted stems or rootstocks, and roundish-heart-shaped crenate leaves on 

 slender petioles. Flowers 1-2, white, on scape-like peduncles. (Named in 

 honor ot Dalibard, a French botanist.) 



1. D. repcns, L. Downy; sepals spreading in the flower, converging 

 and enclosing the fruit. — Wooded banks ; common northward. June - Aug. 



— Leaves much like those of a stemless Violet. 



14. RIJBUS, L. Bkamble. 



Calyx 5-parted, without bractlets. Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens numerous. 

 Achenia usually many, collected on a spongy or succulent receptacle, becoming 

 small drupes : styles nearly terminal. — Perennial herbs, or somewhat shrubby 

 plants, with white (rarely reddish) flowers, and edible fruit. (Name from the 

 Celtic rub, red.) 



§ 1. Fruit, or collective mass of drupes, falling off whole from the dry receptacle when 



ripe, or of few grains which fall separately. (Easpeekkt.) 



* Leaves simple : flowers large : pricMes none : fruit and receptacle fattish. 



1. K. odoratus, L. (Pukple Flowering-Easpeeeky.) Stem shrub- 

 by (3° - 5° high) ; branches, stalks, and calyx bristly with glandular clammy hairs ; 

 leaves 3 - 5-lobed, the lobes pointed and minutely toothed, the middle one pro- 

 longed; peduncles many-flowered; calyx-lobes tipped with a, long naiTow ap- 

 pendage ; pettds rounded, purple rose-cdor ; fruit ripening several reddish grains. 



— Rocky banks, common northward. June- Aug. — Flowers showy, 2' broad. 



2. B. ZVntkanns, Mo<;ino. (White Flowbeing-Easpbehuy.) 

 Glandular, scarcely bristly; leaves almost equally 5-lobed, coarsely toothed; 

 peduncles few-flowered; petals oval, white. (E. parviflorus, Nutt.) — Upper 

 Michigan, and northwestward along the Lakes. Much like No. 1 ; but smaller. 



3. B. Cliainseinorus, L. (Cloud-berry.) Herbaceous, low, dioecious ; 

 stem simple, 2-34eaved, I flowered; leaves roundish-kidney-forra, somewhat 5- 

 lobed, serrate, wrinkled ; calyx-lobes pointless ; petals obovate, white ; fruit of 

 few grains, amber-color. — White Mountains of New Hampshire at the limit of 

 trees : also Lubeck, Maine, and northward. (Eu.) 



* # Leaflets (pinnatdy) 3 - 5 : petals small, erect, white. 

 t- Stems annual, herbaceous, not prickly : fruit of few separate grains. 



4. B. triflorus, Richardson. (Dwarf Easpberry.) Stems ascending 

 (6' -12' high) or trailing; leaflets 3 (or pedately 5), rhombic-ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, coarsely doubly serrate, thin, smooth ; peduncle 



