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j. Rub us canadenfis. Smooth /talked Canadian 
Bramble . 
This is faid to grow in Canada with purplifh (talks 
without prickles. The leaves are fingered; com- 
peted of ten, five, and three lobes, which are very 
(lender, lance-fhaped, and (harply ferrated. 
4. Rub us occidentalis. American Rafpberry . 
This rifes with a round prickly (talk, of feven or 
eight feet in length, which often defeends again to 
the earth in a femi-circular manner, fometimes tak- 
ing root. The (talks are covered with a thin bluifli 
feum or miff, and furnifhed with trifoliate leaves. 
The lobes are fomewhat heart, or egg-fhaped; cut 
and fawed on their edges, whitifh 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 reddifh black colour when ripe; the acini of which 
are joined, parting entire from the conical receptacle. 
5. Rub us odoratus. Virginian Rof e-flowering 
Ra/pberry . 
This rifes with upright woody (talks, without 
prickles, to the height of three or four feet, cover- 
ed with a brown fcaly bark. The leaves are fingle, 
large, palmated or divided into five or more pointed, 
lobes, fharply fawed on their edges, a little hairy, 
and joined to pfetty long, hairy footflalks. The 
flowers are produced in a kind of panicle at the ex- 
tremity of the branches, of a curdled reddifh colour ; 
refembling 
