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3. RufitJS canadenfis. Smooth Jialked Canadian 



Bramble. 



This is faid to grow in Canada with purplilh ftalks 

 without prickles-. The leaves are fingered; com- 

 pofed of ten, five, and three lobes, which are very 

 flender, lance-fhaped, and fliarply ferrated. 



4. Rub us occidentalis. American Rafpberry. 



' This rifes with a round prickly ftalk, of feven or 

 eight feet in length, which often dcfcends again to 

 the earth in a femi-circular manner, fometimes tak- 

 ing root. The ftalks are covered with a thin bluifli 

 fcum or mift, and furniflied with trifoHate leaves. 

 The lobes are fomewhat heart, or egg-lhaped ; ctit" 

 and fawed on their edges, whitifli and downy under- 

 neath, the lateral ones fometimes divided, the com- 

 mon footftalk pretty long, and the middle or termi- 

 nal lobe a little fubtended. The flowers are produ- 

 ced at the extremity of the branches in a kind of ra- 

 cemus^ or bunch, and are fucceeded by fmall fruit of 

 a reddifli black colour when ripe; the acini of which 

 are joined, parting entire from the conical receptacle. 



5. Rub us ddoratus. Virginian Rofe-floivering 



. ifiio ' Rajpherry. 



This rifes with upright woody ftalks, without 

 prickles, to the height of three or four feet, cover- 

 ed with a brown fcaly bark. The leaves are fingle, 

 large, paimated or divided into five or more pointed 

 lobes, fliarply Tawed on their edges, a little hairy, 

 and joined to pretty long^ hairy footftalks. The 

 flowers are proauced in a kind of panicle at the ex- 

 tremity of the branches, of a curdled reddifli colour; 



refembling 



