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rate smoothish, subcoriaceous and shining ; racemes subpaniculatc, 

 terminal ; flowers small ; petals obovate-oblong ; bracts ovate, or tnhd. 

 Hook. Am. 1. p. 180. Icon, tab. 60. 



R hispidus! mild. Sp. 2. p. 1083. Ait. Keiv. 3. p. 268. MuU> 

 SJSl Pur*h, Am. 1. p. 347. Xutt. Gen. I. p. 308. Torr. FL 

 p 489. Ejusd. Comp. p. 207. Zfiutt. Encij.p. 450. £a*. Man. p. 

 310. Also I Pepi* Syn. 2. /;. 51. Not of DC. nor ilecfr. 

 R obovalis. Mx.Am.\.p.2W. DC. Prodr.2. p. 565. JY*ni/. CiNn 

 * 65. Beck, Bot. p. 104. Also, Muhl. L c. Pursh, Am. 1. p. 349. 

 %fH. Gen. l./>.309, 2fWr. -FY. 1. p. 490. J^fwA Comp. p. 207. £<if. 

 .Man. £.311. 

 R. sempcrvirens. U/g-e/. Bost. p. 201. Also, JEa*. C c. 



Obovate Rcbus. 



S/em 2 to 4 feet long, slender, procumbent, somewhat fruticosc, purplish, very 

 hispid (the bristles retrorse, and many of them finally becoming rigid recurved 

 slender prickles), giving out numerous leafy flowering-branches, which are as- 

 surgent, or nearly erect, 3 to 6 or 8 inches long, very slender, herbaceous, some- 

 what hispid and minutely pubescent, with stipule-like scales at base. Leaves 

 mostly ternate ; petioles 1 to 2 inches long, more or less hispid and pubescent, 

 often very hispid ; stipules linear-lanceolate, entire, or sparingly incised ; leaflets 

 3 fourths of an inch to near 2 inches (generally about an inch) in length, and half 

 an inch to an inch and half wide, more or less obovate and cuneate, often rounded 

 at apex, sometimes rather acute and rhomboidal, unequally serrate, entire near 

 the base, smoothish, shining green above, rather paler beneath, slightly ferrugi- 

 nous on the nerves, and sparingly aculeate on the mid-rib, coriaceous when old, 

 often living through the winter, but becoming purplish brown, and spotted, in the 

 spring, the lateral ones on very short petioles, the petiole of the terminal one 2 

 or 3 times as long. Flowers sub-paniculate, terminal on the branches, often with 

 2 or 3 solitary pedicels in the axils below ; pedicels slender, pubescent, bracteate 

 at base (and sometimes with a minute bract near the middle); bracts ovate, entire, 

 or often trifid. Calyx pubescent ; segments elliptic-ovate, mucronate, with a nar- 

 row margin of white tomentum. Petals white, oblong, or obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 or sometimes emarglnate, narrowed at base, about twice as long as the calyx. 

 Fruit small, succulent, black when mature, rather acerb when much shaded, 

 a number of the carpels or acines commonly abortive, and often the whole of them. 



JIab. Swampy thickets, in the Mica-slate: frequent. W. June. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. This occurs pretty frequently In shaded sphagnous swamps among the 

 mica-slate hills ; but is not generally diffused like the pre ceding, —to which it 

 bears the nearest resemblance, though undoubtedly distinct. 1 have a strong sus- 

 picion, however, that our plant must be the R. hispidus, of LintiGus ; and I judge 

 from the description in Rees' Cyclopasdia, by Sir J. B. Smith,— who described it 

 with the Linnaean specimen before him. 



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Leaves simple, palmate-lob ed. 



7. P, odoratus, L. Stem erect, branching, unarmed, glandular-hij> 

 sute ; leases 3 or 5-lobcd, unequally serrate ; stipules free, deciduous ; 

 corymbs termiualr«<Mxicound, spreading, glandular-pilose and viscid ; 

 flowers large; calyx-segments o^rttt^Jaufi^curniiwrtc ; petals purple. 

 Beck, Bot. p. 104. Icox, Bart. Am. 2. tab. 



Odorous Rubus. Vulgd — Rose-flowering Raspberry, 



