little at the base. Stipules 2, joined to the petioles a little
above the base: lower ones broadly lanceolate, acute : the
upper ones narrower. Flowers paper-white, in a sort of pa-
nicled corymbus, each of the branches of it 2 to 4-flowered.
Bractes variable in size, ovate or lanceolate, acute, clothed
with glandular hairs. Peduncles cylindrical, thickened a
little below the calyx, glutinous, and covered with short
reddish hairs, tipped with purple glands. Calyx 5-cleft; the
segments spreadmg, ovate, terminated in a long slender
point, clothed with little purple glands, about the length of
the petals, woolly at the margins on the inside. Petals 5,
broadly oval, rounded, imbricate about half way up, tapering
to the base, of a thin texture, somewhat crumpled, and veined
with numerous veins at the back, attached to the calyx. Stamens
numerous, also inserted in the calyx, of unequal lengths,
spreading: Jilaments smooth, slender. C«rpe//a numerous,
imbedded in a fleshy berry. Ovarium woolly. Style smooth,
terminated by a little beak-like Stigma, pointing to one side.
This pretty species of Raspberry has been lately introduced
to this country from Nootka Sound, and will be a valuable
plant for growing in wilderness quarters, where it suc-
seeds well under the shade of trees, as we are informed by
Mr. J. R. Gowen, who was so kind as to send us the specimens
from the collection of the Earl of Carnarvon, where the
plants were raised from seed collected by Dr. Richardson,
in Captain Franklin’s expedition : we received the specimens
in May last, and should have published it before, but waited
in hopes of procuring some fruit to add to the drawing; but,
probably, owing to the wet Summer, no fruit has been produced.
Mr. Gowen informs us that its foliage is ornamental,
the leaves when full grown very large, and its habit more compact
than that of R. odoratus. It is a very abundant bloomer,
and continues in flower a considerable time : it succeeds well
in the common garden soil, and may be increased readily by
dividing at the root. We are certain that this is the R. nutkanus
of M. De Candolle; as we have seen specimens of it in
Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, collected by Sesse and Mocinno.
The generic name is derived from the Celtic ( Rub.) red,
from the redness of the berries of many of the species.
1. Calyx. 2. Stamens of various lengths, that are inserted in the calyx. 3. The head
of the Carpella, all terminated by little beaked Stigmas.