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RUBUS arcticus.
Dwarf Crimson Bramble.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
G en. Ch a r. Cal. 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry superior,
composed of several single-seeded grains.
Spec. Ch a r . Leaflets three, smooth, bluntly serrated.
Stem bearing one or two flowers, without prickles.
Petals roundish, notched.
Sy n. Rubus arcticus. Linn. Sp. PI. 708. FI. Lapp,
n. 207. t. 5 . f . 2. Sm. FI. Brit. 544. FI. Dan.
t. 488. Curt. Mag. t. ] 32.
THE late Rev. Dr. Walker, Professor of Natural History at
Edinburgh, informed me in the year 1782 of his having gathered
this beautiful plant in rocky mountainous parts of the
isle of Mull. Mr. Sowerby has been favoured by Richard
Cotton, Esq., with a dry wild specimen from the high regions
of Ben-y-glo, Blair, in Scotland, which agrees with
that in our plate, procured from the choice garden of the
Right Hon. Charles Greville in June last.
Root creeping, perennial, without scyons. Stems unarmed,
erect, from 4 to 6 or 8 inches high, mostly simple and single-
flowered, sometimes, from luxuriance, bearing 2 flowers.
Leaves alternate, 3 on a footstalk, somewhat rhomboidal,
bluntly and irregularly serrated, almost perfectly smooth.
Stipulas roundish, undivided. Flower crimson, on a terminal
downy stalk. Calyx in 5, 6 or 7 downy segments. Petals
as many, roundish, generally with a terminal notch. Fruit
of a pale purplish amber hue, formed of a few large grains,
sweet and highly flavoured, partaking of the Raspberry and
Strawberry as it were combined. We have tasted it at the
late Mr. Sykes’s at Hackney. Of this fruit a rich wine is
made in Sweden, reserved for the tables of the great.
Linnaeus, very partial to this plant, has, among his many fine
specimens of it, preserved some from Lapland whose petals
are much jagged.
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