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R U B U S idaeus.
llasp-berry.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
Gen, Char. Cal. 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry superior,
composed of several single-seeded grains.
Spec. Char. Leaves pinnate, with five or three
leaflets, downy beneath. Footstalks channelled.
Stem prickly.
Syn. Rubus idasus, Linn. Sp. PI. 70 6 . Sm. Fl.
Brit. 541. Huds. 220. With. 46 8 . Hull ed. 2.'
149. Sibth. 159. Abbot. 111. Fl. Dan. t. 788.
Wuodv. Med. Bot. t. 138. Ger. em. 1272.
R. idseus spinosus, fructu rubro. Baii Syn, 467.
P l e n t i f u l in mountainous woods and thickets in
Wales, Scotland, and the north of England. Our specimens,
truly wild, grew in a wood at the back of Thorpe, near Norwich,
flowering in June. In gardens the Raspberry is sufficiently
known, and duly esteemed. The rich perfume of its
fruit renders it highly acceptable as a preserve, even in India.
The roots are perennial and creeping. Stems shrubby,
though only biennial, erect, four feet' high, branched, round,
leafy, rough with small prickles. Lower leaves pinnate with
two pair of leaflets and an odd o n e u p p e r ternate only.
Leaflets ovate or rhomboid, unequally and sharply serrated or
cut, strongly veined ; green and slightly downy above; snow-
white and densely cottony beneath. Footstalks channelled
above, downy and prickly like the flowerstalks, which grow in
clusters. Flowers pendulous. Petals small, greenish white.
Fruit crimson, of numerous pulpy grains, beset with permanent
styles. The wild raspberries, though small, are preferred
for their flavour to those of the garden, where they grow in
suflieient plenty to supply the table.
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