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stalk, pale gr., sometimes a little hairy. Pan. a foot or more 
long, many-fld., with subdivided branches. Br. linear or lanceo- 
late pale gr. glandular-hairy. FL pure hut dead white, very 
large and handsome, when fully open about the size of a dollar 
or nearly 2 in. in diam., fragrant. Sep. reflexed in fl. and fr., 
ovate acuminate concave, without prickles but copiously glan- 
dular-hairy, pale gr. with whitish edges. Pet. large, with a 
short claw, very fugacious. Fil. white. Antli. pale grpenish-y. 
Styles greenish. Fr. large oblong subcylindric obtuse, about 
| in. long, of numerous small equal-sized grains or drupes, 
more like a Raspberry than Blackberry, deep shining black, 
rather firm hard dry or juiceless, and either acid or insipid. 
When half-ripe it is of a peculiar bright mulberry-red colour. 
The ripe fr. is longer and more obtusely pyramidal or cylindric, 
with much more numerous and smaller grains, of a firmer drier 
substance, less juicy and more acid, than in the common Black- 
berry (It. discolor W. and N.) ; and it is, when ripening, of a 
much brighter red colour. 
“ TJlmus suberosa Monch ” of Heer’s Fossil PI. of S. Jorge, 
p. 28, t. i. f. 24, is the impression of a side-lft. of this Rubus ; 
and not only t. ii. f. 3, of u Corylus australis ,” but his u Rsoralca 
dentata Dec. ?” p. 33, t. ii. f. 28, are also, most probably, impres- 
sions of the upper surface of side-lfts. of the same, the u little 
points ” or dots of the latter exactly corresponding with impres- 
sions of the fine granulations or ultimate reticulate compart- 
ments on the upper surface of the lfts. of either It. grandifolius 
or R. discolor. 
It is fair to state, however, that as TJlmus campcstris L. 
( U. suberosa var. Ehrh., Moench) flourishes cult, at an elevation 
of 3000 or 4000 ft. at Osorio near Teror and at San Mateo in 
Grand Canary, there is no strong a priori reason against its 
former existence in Mad., though at present it is cultivated 
with small success at Camacha or the Mount, Scarcely exceed- 
ing the size of a dwarf tr. or bush. 
The Raspberry (It. Idceus L.) is occasionally cultivated ; but it is 
with difficulty preserved alive for more than two or three 
years, even at the elevation of the Mount, and is very unpro- 
ductive from the first. 
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