CHAPTER m. 



RASPBEREY. 



NATURAL FA^HLY ROSACEA. 



(RuBirs.— The Latin name for the Raspberry and Blackberry derived from the 

 eeltic rub^ red ; French name, Frarriboisier ; German, Hlmbeeren Strauch ; Dutch, 

 Framboos ; Italian, Bova-ideo ; Spanish, Frambueso ; the old English name is 

 Easpis or Illndbeii^.'] 



GENERAL CHARACTERS. 



Perennial lierbs^ or somewhat slirnbby plants^ with 

 biennial^ and^ in a few species^ perennial woody stems ; 

 flowers^ white or red ; petals^ five deciduous ; stamens^ 

 many ; seeds collected on a spongy^ succulent receptacle^ 

 becoming small drupes. In the Easpberry, that which is 

 called the fruity is a collective mass of drupes, which 

 readily parts from the dry receptacle when ripe. 



SPECIES. 



Our native species are divided into three classes by Dr. 

 Gray, as follows : 



Class 1. — Leaves simple; flowers large, prickles none; 

 fcuit and receptacle flat. 



RuMs Odoratus. — Purple Flowering Raspberry. — Stem 

 shrubby, three to five feet high ; branches, stalks and ca- 

 lyx bristly, with glandular, clammy hairs ; leaves three to 

 five lobed; the lobes pointed and minutely toothed, the 

 middle one prolonged; peduncles many flov^'ered, inirple 

 rose-colored; fruit variable in size, from two or three 

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