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R. Ideus, Linn. Eueopean Easpbeeet. — Tall and nearly 

 erect, beset witli straight, slender prickles, or many of th.ein 

 mere bristles, the canes whitish; leaves thicker, and fruit 

 firmer and larger than in E. strigosus, red or yellowish, ripen- 

 ing through the summer ; calyx glandless. Parent of the Ant- 

 werp and other garden Easpberries; once much grown, but 

 now mostly out of cultivation in this coiintry — driven out by 

 the hardier American species. 



R. fhoenicolasius, Maxim. Wiwebeeey. — Strong bush 

 with the habit of a raspberry, the branches covered with a 

 copius red hair ; the dull and sparsely hairy, wedge-ovate or 

 wedge-cordate, toothed, and jagged leaflets very white-tomen- 

 tose below ; flowers in fascicled clusters ; the soft reddish fruits 

 at length inclosed in the great hairy calyx. Japan. ISTot 

 hardy in the Xorth. 



BT.ACKBEEEIES AND DEWBEERIES. 



Tlie pulpy grains of the fruit remaining attached to the 

 pulpy receptacle, which at length falls away from the calyx; 

 stems prickly; leaves of 3 or pedately 5-7 leaflets; flowers on 

 leafy shoots from stems of the preceding year, in spring and 

 early summer, with white spreading petals; stems more or 

 less ivoody; fruit hlacJc (rarely amber) when ripe, edible, 

 ripening in summer and autumn. 



BLACKBEEEIES. 



Stems more or less erect, not propagating from the tip. 



R. nigrobaccus, Bailey. High Blackbeeeies. — Stems 1-6 

 feet high, furrowed recurving at ends; prickles strong and 



