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hooked; leaflets 3-5, ovate or lance-ovate, pointed, their lower 

 surface and stalks hairy and glandular, the middle one long- 

 stalked and sometimes heart-shaped; flowers rather large, with 

 short bracts, in long, open distinct leafless racemes ; fruit oblong 

 or cylindrical, black, sweet and aromatic. The common Black- 

 berry of gardens, running into many forms. Known in culti- 

 vation as the Long Clusteb Blackbeebies of which Taylor 

 is a good example. A sub-species var. sativus furnishes the 

 so-called Shoet Clttstee Blackbeebies of which Kittatinny 

 and Snyder are good types. 



B. laciniatus, Willd. Cut-leaved or Evebgeeest Black- 

 bebeies. — Leaflets 3, each pinnately divided into lobed and 

 cut portions ; flower clusters small, . whitish-pubescent ; stems 

 with recurved prickles. Probably a form of the EuEOPEAiir 

 Blackbeeby R. fruiticosus. Of value on the Pacific coast 

 where it remains green through the winter. Very prolific. 



DEWBEEEIES. 



stems trailing, decumbent, or ascending, mostly rooting at 

 the tips. 



E. villosus, Ait. Low Bush Blaokbeeet or Dewbbebt. — 

 Long-trailing, slightly prickly, smooth or smoothish, and with 

 3-7 small, doubly-toothed leaflets; the racemes erect and 1-3- 

 flowered, with leaf-like bracts, the fruit of fewer grains and 

 ripening earlier than the Blackberries. Several varieties are 

 cultivated. 



Var. roribdccm, Bailey, native of W. Va., is the Lucretia 

 Dewberry, distinguished by strong growth, wedge-obovate, 

 jagged leaflets, long flower stalks, and large flowers with leafy 

 sepals. 



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