RU'BUS ARC'TICUS. 
DWARF BRAMBLE. 
Class. Order. 
IC0SANDR1A. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
rosace s.. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Scotland. 
4 inches. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1748. 
No. 152. 
Rubus is an old Latin word, believed to have ori- 
ginated in the Celtic term rhudd, signifying red; 
and applied to this genus, as indicative of the pro- 
minent colour of some of its plants and their fruit. 
Arcticus, Latin, northern ; being a native of north- 
ern countries ; for as well as being indigenous to 
a few of the mountains of Scotland, it is found in 
Labrador; and also in some of the most northern 
parts of Europe. 
Linneus has described this plant minutely, and 
with gratitude extols it. He found it in Lapland, 
where both wine and jelly are made from its berries; 
from which he had often experienced the most salu- 
tary relief, when fainting with fatigue and op- 
pressed with hunger, — circumstances under which 
he not unfrequently laboured, whilst in the arduous 
pursuit of botanical science. One plant, newly dis- 
covered, would, however, cover the remembrance of 
a multitude of toils. 
The Rubus Arcticus grows freely in mellow peat 
earth, in an eastern aspect ; yet experience indicates, 
that in the low altitude of England, we shall not ob- 
tain a luxuriant produce of its berries. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 270. 
