S&IB3Lm mLWl* 



RUBUS ODORATUS. 



SWEET-SMELLING RUBUS. ROSE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY. 

 FLOWERING RASPBERRY. 



Icosandria Polygyria, Linn. Rosacex, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-cleft, inferior. Petals 5. Berry compound, acini 1 -seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Without prickles, erect, clammy-hispid ; leaves simple, acute, 3-5 lobed ; corymbs 

 terminal, divaricate, calices with apendices, petals sub-orbiculate. — Willd. 



A very elegant shrubby plant, commonly about four feet tall, but 

 often attaining a height of six or seven feet. Stems biennial, nume- 

 rous, erect, branched, hispid, but without prickles. Branches invest- 

 ed with a thick, viscous pubescence, or hispidness. Leaves simple, 

 roughish, deep grass-green, cut into from three to five lobes, ser- 

 rated — serratures acute — lobes acuminated. Flowers borne in termi- 



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