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SMALL FRUIT CULTUEIST. 



grains to nearly an inch in diameter, red, with a rather 

 dry, musky flavor. Common, in most of the Northern 

 States, in high rocky places. It is sometimes called 

 Thimbleberry, Mulberry, etc. 



lliibus Nutkanus, — White Flowering Easpberry. — 



Leaves almost equally five-lobed, scarcely bristly ; petals 

 oval, white, very much like the last, and probably only a 

 Yariety of R. odoratus. Northern Michigan and west- 

 ward, and northward to Alaska. The California Salmon- 

 berry {R, veliitimis, Hook.) is now regarded as only a 

 Yariety of this. 



R, €Iiam!em»rus. — Cloudberry. — Herbaceous, low; dioe- 

 cious ; stem simple ; two to three-leaved ; one-flowered ; 

 leaves roundish, kidney form, somewhat five-lobed ; petals 

 white ; grains few, amber color. Native of Europe, par- 

 ticularly in the more northern portions, also in the high 

 mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, and in the 

 Canadas. 



Class 2. — Leaves three-foliate, sometimes simple, but ^ 

 rarely five-foliate. Stems soft, woody, and somewhat 

 prickly. 



R. spectabilis. — Showy Easpberry. — Stems robust, five 

 to ten feet high, bearing a few straight, stout prickles ; 

 leaflets ovate, accuminate double incised -serrate and often 

 two or three-lobed ; veins beneath as well as petioles, 

 sparingly villous-pubescent ; flowers mostly solitary, red, 

 large, and showy ; fruit large ovoid, red, or yellow. Com- 

 mon on the Pacific coast from California northward to 

 Alaska. Var. Menziesii — Is more tomentose and silky, 

 but otherwise resembles the species. 



Class 3. — Leaves compound, of three to fiYe leaflets. 

 Stems annual, herbaceous, not prickly ; fruit of a few 

 separate grains, 



Ri pedatas. — Bird's-foot Easpberry. — Stems slender, 



