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The Roses of Ohio. 
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1. Fragaria americana (Porter) Britt. American Wood 
Strawberry. Leaves thin, light green, pubescence usually closely 
appressed and silky or sparse; inflorescence irregular and some¬ 
what raceme-like primary branches of the cyme distinctly unequal; 
fruit ovoid to conic. Butler, Greene, Cuyahoga, Ottawa, Auglaize, 
Crawford, Summit. 
2. Fragaria vesca L. European Wood Strawberry. The 
white-fruited variety. Low herbs, with the pubescence of the 
petioles wide-spreading, that of the pedicels closely appressed; 
inflorescence, a cyme; fruit ovoid or hemispherical, white. Hocking, 
Belmont. 
3. Fragaria virginiana Duch. Virginia Strawberry. Taller 
than the above species, rather stout, villous pubescent; leaves 
5-12 in. tall; leaflets thick, ovate, light gray-green below, 1-3| 
in. long; inflorescence a flat-topped cyme; achenes in pits in 
the receptacle. General in distribution. 
9. Rubus. Blackberry, Raspberry, Dewberry. 
Perennial shrubs with erect or trailing stems, usually prickly; 
leaves alternate, simple or 3-7-parted, with stipules adnate to 
the petiole; flowers terminal or axillary, solitary, racemose or 
panicled; calyx 5-parted, without bracts; petals 5; stamens 
many; carpels many, inserted on a convex or elongated receptacle, 
ripening into drupelets, usually edible; styles nearly terminal. 
1. Flowers purplish, rose or light pink; stems bristly. 2. 
1. Flowers white, or if not, then not bristly. 3. 
2. Leaves simple, 3-5-lobed or angled, not white beneath; stems not 
prickly; petals purple-rose. R. odoratus. (10). 
2. Leaves usually 3-parted; white-downy beneath; petals pale pink; fruit 
enclosed in a bur. R. phoenicolasius. (9). 
3. Leaves white-downy beneath; stems more or less glaucous; fruit easily 
separated from the dry receptacle. 4. 
3. Leaves sometimes lighter green below, not white-downy; stems not 
glaucous; fruit persistent on the receptacle or not easily separated 
from it. 6. 
4. Stems very glaucous all over, with rather stout recurved prickles, not 
bristly; fruit purple-black. R. occidentalis. (5). 
4. Stems slightly glaucous; bristly; fruit red. 5. 
5. Stems bristly, not prickly; fruit light red. R. strigosus. (7). 
5. Stems both bristly and prickly; fruit a dark red. R.neglectus. (6). 
6. Canes erect or arched ascending; inflorescence elongated, many- 
flowered. 7. 
6. Canes trailing or with a tendency to be prostrate toward the end; 
inflorescence loose, few-flowered, racemose, or flowers solitary. 8. 
7. Inflorescence with few (4-6) or several unifoliate leaves. R. frondosus.( 1). 
7. Inflorescence not leafy. R. alleghaniensis. (2). 
8. Stems herbaceous, usually anarmed, but sometimes with occasional 
prickles; fruit red purple. R. triflorus. (8). 
8. Stems shrubby; with prickles or bristles; fruit black or nearly black 
when ripe. 9. 
9. Stems with few prickles; leaves dull above; fruit black. 
R. procumbens. (3). 
9. Stems slender, densely set with weak bristles; leaves shining; fruit 
reddish-black. R. hispidus. (4). 
