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to three feet in height. Branches round, purple flexuose, 
with frequent spreading prickles. Calyx villose with lan¬ 
ceolate segments. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
white. Fruit yellow, esculent, sapid.—Native of Japan, 
between Miaco and Quana; flowering in April. 
20. Rubus incisus.—Leaves simple, cordate, gashed, 
smooth, stem erect, prickly.—Native of Japan. 
21. Rubus Japonicus.—This is a low shrub, with an up¬ 
right, even, angular stem, not much branched. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, even on both 
sides. Peduncle filiform, the length of the corolla. Flower 
the size of that of the strawberry, with roundish w'hite 
petals. Calyx small.—Native of Japan. 
22. Rubus corchorifolius.—Shrubby, prickly, tomentose, 
leaves simple, oblong, cordate, serrate, peduncles solitary, 
one-flowered.—Stem, lower surface of the leaves, petioles, 
peduncles and calyxes hoary with nap. Petals scarcely 
longer than the calyx. 
23. Rubus elongatus.—Leaves simple, cordate, acumi¬ 
nate, doubly crenate, tomentose underneath, stem prickly, 
calyxes blunt.—Pedicels clustered or solitary, short, a little 
thickened at the top, silky upright. Bractes oblong, concave, 
pubescent on the outside, toothed at top, deciduous. Petals 
roundish, white. Fruit red.—Found in Java. 
24. Rubus pyrifolius.—Leaves simple, oval, acuminate, 
serrate, naked, stem prickly, panicled, petals minute.— 
Petals four times shorter than the calyx, oval, blunt, toothed 
at the end. Fruit composed of few ovate grains.—Found in 
Java. 
II.—Herbaceous. 
25. Rubus pedatus.—Leaves pedate-quinate, gashed, 
peduncles filiform, bracted in the middle, calyxessmoothish. 
—Flowers solitary, peduncled, upright, seemingly white. 
This tender delicate plant, is distinguished from all the 
herbaceous species by its leaves.—Native of North America. 
26. _Rubus saxatilis, or stone bramble.—Leaves ternate, 
smoothish, runners, creeping, herbaceous, panicle few- 
flowered.—Fruit of a most beautiful pink colour, when 
ripe, of an agreeable acid flavour, and composed of a few 
large acini.—Native of several parts of Europe. It flowers 
in June.—In Scotland they call the fruit roebuck-berries. 
The Russians ferment them with honey, and extract a potent 
spirit from them. 
27. Rubus arcticus, or dwarf crimson bramble.—Dwarf 
crimson bramble has a creeping root, but no runners. Stems 
from a hand to a span in height, upright, single, angular. 
Leaves unequally serrate, commonly altogether smooth. 
Flowers solitary, peduncled, terminating, deep rose-coloured, 
with the petals sometimes jagged. Calyx hairy. Fruit 
purple, sweet and fragrant, very pleasant; according to 
Linneus, almost as large as a mulberry.—Native of the North 
of Europe, Asia and America. 
28. Rubus trifidus.—Leaves simple, gash-trifid, smooth, 
stem unarmed.—Flowers from the same bud with the leaves, 
peduncled, solitary; peduncle simple, seldom bifid. Petioles 
and peduncles villose, a finger’s length. Calyx white- 
tomentose. Fruit red, esculent, pleasant-tasted.—Native of 
Japan, flowering in April. 
29- Rubus stellatus.—Leaves simple, cordate, three-lobed, 
wrinkle-veined, stem unarmed, one-flowered, erect, petals 
lanceolate.—Found in North America. The fruit is purple, 
as in rubus arcticus. 
30. Rubus geoides.—Leaves simple, ternate, blunt, serrate, 
naked, the end leaf very large.—Stems herbaceous, very 
short, depressed. Petioles subvillose. Flowers solitary, on 
short, very thick, pubescent peduncles. Petals roundish. 
Found in South America. 
31. Rubus chamaemorus, mountain bramble or cloudberry. 
—Leaves simple, lobed, stem unarmed, one-flowered, caly- 
cine, segments ovate.—The mountain bramble or cloudberry 
is a plant of an elegant appearance, with a creeping root; 
a simple stem, hardly a foot high, upright ; mallow-like, but 
smooth and hardish leaves, petioled, cordate, five-lobed, 
plaited, wrinkled, unequally serrate. Flowers terminal, 
peduncled, white; male and female, the former with short 
abortive pistils, the latter with abortive stamens. Berries of 
a tawney or dull orange-colour, composed of many acini, 
acid, mucilaginous and not unpleasant.—Native of Sweden, 
Denmark, Siberia, and Britain. 
32. Rubus dalibarda, or simple-leaved bramble.—Leaves 
simple, cordate, undivided, crenate, scape leafless, one 
flowered.—Root creeping, fibrous. Runners prostrate, 
herbaceous. Petioles hairy, longer than the leaves. Pe¬ 
duncles, solitary, leafless, filiform, hairy, one-flowered, the 
length of the petioles. Flowers, hermaphrodite, white, 
small. Calyx five-parted, the segments lanceolate, scarcely 
longer than the calyx. Filaments the length of the petals. 
Berry juiceless. Seeds five, ovate, sharpish, in the dried 
plant with a corrugated surface.—Brought from Canada.— 
Propagation and Culture. —The’raspberry is generally 
propagated by suckers. The soil in which the varieties 
thrive best, is a fresh, strong loam, for in warm light ground 
they do not produce so much fruit, as they naturally grow 
in cold land and in shade; therefore when they are planted 
in a warm situation and a light soil, they do not succeed. 
The season for dressing them is in October. 
RU'BY, s’, [rubi, rubis, old Fr.; from ruber, Lat.] A 
precious stone of a red colour, next in hardness and value to 
a diamond.—See Mineralogy, p. 459. 
Up, up, fair bride! and call 
Thy stars from out their several boxes, take 
Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make 
Thyself a constellation of them all. Donne. 
Redness. 
You can behold such sights. 
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, 
When mine is blanch’d with fear. Shakspeare. 
Any thing red. 
Desire of wine 
Thou could’st repress, nor did the dancing ruby 
Sparkling, out-pour’d, the flavour, or the smell, 
Or taste, that cheers the hearts of gods and men, 
Allure thee from the cool crystalline stream. Milton. 
A blain; a blotch; a carbuncle. (This is a very old 
acceptation of the word.)—To take away red rubies that 
growe in the face by reason of the heate of the liver. Ward. 
—He’s said to have a rich face, and rubies about his nose. 
Capt. Jones. 
RU'BY, adj. Of a red colour.—Wounds, like dumb 
mouths, do ope their ruby lips. Shakspeare. 
To RU'BY, v. a. To make red. Not in use. —With 
sanguine drops the walls are rubied round. Pope. 
RUCA, a small river of Venezuela, which rises east of the 
city of Coro, runs north, forming a curve, and enters the sea. 
RUCELLAI (Bernardo), [Lat. Oricellarius], a writer and 
patron of letters, was born of a noble family at Florence, in 
1449. At the age of 17 he married Nannina, daughter of 
Piero arid sister of Lorenzo de Medicis, an alliance that 
raised him to the highest posts in the republic. In 1480 he 
was elected Gonfalonier ot Justice, and four years afterwards 
went as ambassador to the state of Genoa. In 1494 he was 
deputed in the same quality to Ferdinand, King of Naples; 
and, in the same and the following year, to Charles Vll. 
King of France. With his public employments he joined 
that cultivation of polite literature which was frequent among 
the Florentines in the age of the Medici. He was intimately 
connected with Marsiglio Ficino, of whose academy he was 
first one of the chief ornaments, and afterwards the firmest 
support. After the death of Lorenzo, he was a munificent 
patron and protector of the Platonic academy, for the use of 
which he erected a sumptuous edifice, with fine gardens and 
groves, furnished with monuments of antiquity, serving both 
for ornament and instruction. These Horti Oricellarii 
were famous in their time, and have been celebrated by 
various writers. In the Revolutions which followed the 
subversion of the Medici interest, Rucellai incurred the 
charges of ambition and inconstancy, by favouring some¬ 
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