XXVI. ROSA‘CEH: RU BUS. 317 
semidouble or double. Leaves pale green; leaflets obovate. Cul- 
tivated in gardens. This variety may be considered as highly orna- 
mental, from the large size and numerous petals of its flowers, and 
from its very vigorous growth. Though it will thrive at the roots 
of trees, and in places where other ornamental plants will hardly 
grow, yet it produces most effect when it is trained against a wall. 
x R. f. 3 tatricus Hort. is a vigorous-growing plant, which produces by 
far the best fruit of any variety of bramble. H. S. 
x R. fi 4 flore roseo pléno Baum. Cat.—Flowers double pink. H. 8S. 
x R.f. 5 folits variegatis—Leaves variegated, and not liable to the ob- 
jections made to most variegated plants. 
~ Rf. 6 leucocérpus Ser. — Fruit white. (Dec. Prod.) 
This species is considered as being more 
common than any of the other brambles, and 
also as attaining a greater size. It is always 
found to prosper best on a soil somewhat dry 
and gravelly ; and, accordingly, Switzer, when 
speaking of choosing a soil and situation for a 
vineyard, recommends looking out for one where 
the bramble is abundant and vigorous. The 
fruits have been eaten by children, in every 
country where they grow wild, since the time 
of Pliny. They have also been used, both in 
France and England, to produce a subacid 
drink ; an inferior description of wine ; by fer- 
mentation and distillation, a strong spirit; and, 
boiled with sugar, a very good jam. 
541. R. fruticdsus. 
x 1l. RB. ur’sprpus L. The hispid-stemmed Bramble. 
den tification: Lin. Sp., 706.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.564.; Don’s Mill., 2. 
Sdnonymes. R. trivialis Michz. Fl. Bor. Amer. p. 296.; R. prociimbens 
Miihl.; R. flagellaris Willd., according to Spreng. Syst. 2. p. 530. 
Engravings. Wayne,Abbild., t.71.; and our jig. 542. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem procumbent, round, very hispid, 
bearing scattered bristles and recurved prickles. Leaf- 
lets 3—5, wedge-shaped at the base, unequally toothed, 
pretty glabrous above. Flowers solitary, upon longish 
peduncles. Petals obovate. Carpels black. (Dec. 
Prod.) A bramble with procumbent stems. Canada. 
Stems 6ft. to 8ft. Introduced in 1759. Flowers 
white; August. Fruit black, edible ; ripe in September : 
and October. 542. 4c. hispidus, 
§ ii. Leaves lobed, not pinnate or digitate. 
2% 12. R. opora‘rus L. The sweet-scented-leaved Bramble. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 707. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 566.; Don’s Mill., 2.p. 539. 
Si Ly R. occidentalis Hort., but not of Lin.; the Virginian Rasp- 
berry, the flowering Raspberry. 
Engravings. Mill. Ic., t. 223.; Bot, Mag., t. 323. ; and our jig. 543. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem upright. Petioles, peduncles, and 
calyxes bearing glanded hairs. Disks of leaves 5-lobed, 
unequally toothed. Inflorescence subcorymbose. Flowers 
large, showy, red. Sepals ovate, longly acuminate, 
shorter than the petals. Carpels numerous, ovate, vel- 
vety. Style funnel-shaped. (Dec. Prod.) An upright 
shrub. North America, in the woods of Canada, and on 
the Alleghany Mountains. Height 4 ft. to 6ft. Intro- 
duced in 1700. Flowers purplish red; June to Sept. 
Fruit yellow, rarely seen in England. 
543, RB, odorhtue 
