RASPBEEKY. 



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pubescent ; leaves smooth or slightly yillons ; leaflets 

 cuneate-obovate, about an inch long^ incisely toothed. 

 Flowers often solitary^ on long slender peduncles^ white, 

 ' succeeded by fruit consisting of from three to six large 

 red, pnlpy drupelets. Pacific coast. 



R, triflorus. — Dwarf Easpberry. — Stems erect, six to 

 twelve inches high or traihng ; leaflets three ; rhombic- 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, coarsely 

 doubly serrate, thin, smooth ; i3eduncles one to three- 

 flowered. Woody hill-sides throughout the Xorthern 

 States. Xot in cultivation, and no improved varieties 

 known. 



Class 4. — Leaves as in Class 3. Stems biennial and 

 woody, pricMy ; receptacle oblong ; fruit hemisi^herical. 



R, lecuodermis* — White-stemmed Easpberry. — Stem 

 erect, but ends bending over, as usual with all the black- 

 cap EasjDberries ; glaucous, armed with stout, mostly re- 

 curved prickles ; leaves three-foliate, or sometimes pe- 

 dately five-foliate, never simple; leaflets ovate to lanceolate, 

 acuminate, double serrate, white-tomentose beneath, veins 

 and petioles prickly; fruit large, but variable in color, 

 from a yellowish brown to black, usually with consider- 

 able bloom. This species was first described by Douglas 

 some fifty years ago, and recently in the Botany of Cali- 

 fornia, but from long acquaintance with it, not only in its 

 native habitats in the Eocky Mountains, and with plants 

 from various sources cultivated in my garden, I cannot 

 see why it should be separated as a distinct species from 

 the R, occidentalism 



R, Strigosiis. — Wild Eed Easpberry. — Stems upright, 

 beset with stiff, straight bristles ; leaflets three to five, 

 oblong, ovate, pointed, cut serrate, whitish-downy under- 

 neath ; fruit light red, finely flavored. Common every- 

 where, and many varieties of it in cultivation. 

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