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R Ù B U S nutkanus.
Nootka Sound Raspberry.
Linnean Class and Order. IC O S A N D R IA P O L Y G Y N IA .
Natural Order. R O SA C EÆ . D C . prodr. 2:. p . 626.
Subordo I I . P o T E N T iL LÆ . Juss. gen. 337.— Calyx 5-fidus (rariùs
4-fidus aut pluri-divisus,) per æstivationem valvatus, sæpè extùs bracteolas
lobulosve exteriores lobis alternos gerens. P etala tot quot calycis lobi veri
et iis alterna. Stamina numerosa, rariùs 5 et tunc lobis calycis opposita,
apice tubi calycini expansi inserta. Carpella numerosa, rariùs pauca congesta,
toro inserta, inter se et à calyce libera, et latere prope apicem stylifera.
S ty li introrsùm sulco-notati in stigma obliquum expansi. Akenia uuio-
vulata omninò libera, exsucca aut baccata. Semen solitarium erectum aut
inversum, exalbuminosum. Embryo rectus, cotyledonibus planiusculis.—
Herbæ aut frutices; foliis sæpius compositis ; stipulis 2 lateraliter petiolo adnatis.
DC. prodr. 2. p. 549.
R U B U S . Calyx fundo planiusculus 5-fidus nudus. P etala 6 et Stamina
numerosa calyci inserta. Carpella plurima in toro manifesté protuberante
non carnoso capitata, stylo sublaterali superata, in drupellas carnosas
conversa. Semen inversum.— Frutices rarius H erbæ perennes. Caules biennes,
sæpè radicantes, nunc inermes, nunc sæpiùs aculeati. Folia petiolata
nunc pinnata palmatave, pinnis sæpiùs petiolulatis, mine simplicia lobata in-
divisave. Fructus edulis. D C . prodr. 2. p. 556.
§ I I I . Foliis simplicibus lobatis sed non pinnatis nec palmatis.
R . nutkanus, caule fruticoso flexuoso inermi glutinoso, ramis subangulatis
glabris rufis, foliis cordatis quinquelobis rugosis reticulato-venosis sub-
pilosis glabriusculis inæqualiter argute dentatis : lobis divaricatis acutis,
floribus subcorymbosis, laciniis calycinis ovatis glabriusculis glandulosis
longè acuminatis corollam æquantibus.
Rubus nutkanus. Moc. pl. Nutk. icon, ex D C . prodr. 2. p . 566. Sict. hort.
brit. edit. 2. addend, p . 639. Botan. regist. 1 .1368.
Stems several from the same root, apparently biennial,
clothed with a light brown smooth bark, flexuose, slightly
angular, branching : branches surrounded at the base with
several ovate, acute, thin scales, similar to bractes, which
are densely clothed with a close-pressed silky down, and
remain persistent when the flowers are expanded ; they are
closely imbricated over each other, the outer ones shortest,
young branches green, angular, thinly clothed with reddish
hairs, all tipped with little purple glands. Leaves cordate,
5-lobed, the upper ones sometimes only three-lobed, about
as broad as long, rugged, reticulately veined, unequally but
sharply toothed, appearing smooth, but thinly clothed with
hairs on both sides, of a bright green colour : lobes acute,
spreading, the terminal one longest. Petioles nearly cylindrical,
or slightly flattened on the upper side, thickened a