. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXVI. iiOSA CE^ : iJu'BUS. 313 It IS easily distinguished from all the other brambles in British gardens, by its nearly erect, strong, smooth, dark mahogany-coloured shoots, and by its very long pinnate leaves. The flowers are small, and the petals are of a bright reddish purple, and sho
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXVI. iiOSA CE^ : iJu'BUS. 313 It IS easily distinguished from all the other brambles in British gardens, by its nearly erect, strong, smooth, dark mahogany-coloured shoots, and by its very long pinnate leaves. The flowers are small, and the petals are of a bright reddish purple, and shorter than the sepals. The fruit is of a blackish pur- ple, of the ididdle size ; depressedly spherical, and covered with a fine bloom. The grains are fleshy, with a sweet subacid taste. This species throws up suckers sparingly; but its magnificent shoots arch over after they get to 6 or 8 feet in height, and grow branching and flowering on every side, till they reach the ground, when their extreme points strike root, and form new plants. Horticultural Society's Gai-den. s 4. R. occidenta'lis L. The Western, or American, Bramble. Identification. Lin. Sp.,706.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 568.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 831. Synunymes, R. virginiinus Hort.; R. id8e\is frtictu nigro BiU. Engravings. Sloane Jam., t. 213. f. 1.; Dill. Hort. Elt., t. 247. f. 319.; and omfig. 6S2. Spec. Char., S^c. The whole plant is pretty glabrous. Stems round and whitish. Prickles recurved. Leaves of the barren branches pinnate ; of the fertile branches trifoliolate. Leaflets ovate, incisely serrated, whitely tomentose beneath. Stipules very narrow, and bristle- like. Flowers in umbels. Peduncle prickled. Sepals lanceolate-linear, tomentose, longer than the petals, which are obovately wedge-shaped, two-lobed, and spreading. Fmit black, acid, of the form of that of B. idsMs. Carpels numerous, rather glabrous; be- coming, by drying, rugged with little hollows. {Dec. Prod.) A sub-erect shrub. Canada and the West Indie
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