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2. R. spectabilis Pursh var. Menziesii Wats. Salmon Berry. 

 Three to 9 ft. high, the stems with reddish brown bark and sparingly 

 armed, or the canes (sterile shoots) very prickly; prickles short, 

 straight; leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, doubly serrate, often more 

 or less lobed, 1 to 2 in. long, lightly pubescent or silky beneath; 

 flowers 1 to 3 in a cluster; petals red, 6 to 7 lines long; fruit large, 

 ovoid, red or yellow, glabrous. 



Margins of woods and along streams in the vicinity of the ocean: 

 Marin Co. (common on Point Reyes) and northward. Apr. 



3. R. leucodermis Dougl. Raspberry. Plants with very 

 long and straggling branches, these and the petioles freely armed 

 with short recurved prickles; herbage glaucous; leaves 3-foliolate; 

 stipules setaceous; leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, often unequal- 

 sided at base, doubly serrate, f to 2 in. long, pubescent but green 

 above, white with a dense close tomentum below; flowers few, 

 corymbose, white, 6 lines broad; sepals lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 exceeding the petals; fruit glaucous, of an agreeable flavor, either 

 black or red. 



Rarely collected within our limits: Santa Cruz Mountains; Sonoma 

 Co. Frequent in northern California, Sierra Nevada. 



4. R.vitifolius C. & S. Common Blackberry. Stems a few 

 ft. high, and more or less erect, or 8 to 18 ft. long and trailing over 

 the ground or climbing over other shrubs; leaves pubescent or almost 

 glabrous, all pinnately 3 to 5-foliolate, the leaflets ovate, doubly 

 serrate, | to 2£ in. long, or sometimes a few upper leaves simple and 

 ovate or palmately lobed; petals 8 or 9 lines long; fruit black, 

 oblong, sweet. 



Common along creeks and rivers in the /valleys and among the hills 

 of the Coast Range country and Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. 



7. FRAG ARIA L. Strawberry. 

 Perennial acaulescent herbs propagating by runners. Leaves 

 tufted, 3-foliolate, with membranous stipules and cuneate-obovate 

 serrate leaflets. Flowers white, borne in cymes on a naked scape. 

 Calyx persistent, bearing 5 bractlets alternate with the calyx-lobes. 

 Petals obovate, short-clawed. Pistils numerous, distinct, borne on 

 an elevated convex receptacle; styles lateral. Fruit berry-like, 

 formed of the enlarged succulent receptacle which bears the minute 

 seed-like achenes. (Name in reference to the fragrance of the berry.) 



Leaves thin, light green ; achenes borne on the surface of the receptacle . . 



1. F. Calif ornica. 



Leaves thicker, dark green; achenes partly imbedded in the surface of the 

 receptacle 2. F. Chilensis. 



1. F. Californica C. & S. Wood Strawberry. Herbage pilose; 

 leaflets thin, light green, I to 1^ in. long; scapes 4 or 5 in. high, 

 cymosely 2-flowered; sepals and bractlets laciniately 2 or 3-toothed 

 or entire; petals orbicular with a small abruptly acute point at apex, 

 or the margin near the apex slightly crimped, 3 to 4 lines long; fruit 

 globose, about 4 lines in diameter, the achenes borne superficially. 



