Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . oft pubes-cent beneath, seldom or never viscid, 3-5 lobed, the lobes crenu-late toothed and incised; peduncles 1-2 flowered; calyx purplishred, %-X inch (10-13 mm.) long, pubescent on the outside, itslobes exceeding the funnel-shaped tube, recurved or spreading atmaturity; petals thickish, truncate involute, whitish, reachingthe base of the white anthers; berry % of an inch (10 mm.) indiameter, densely covered with long and slender straw-coloredbristles. Distri
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . oft pubes-cent beneath, seldom or never viscid, 3-5 lobed, the lobes crenu-late toothed and incised; peduncles 1-2 flowered; calyx purplishred, %-X inch (10-13 mm.) long, pubescent on the outside, itslobes exceeding the funnel-shaped tube, recurved or spreading atmaturity; petals thickish, truncate involute, whitish, reachingthe base of the white anthers; berry % of an inch (10 mm.) indiameter, densely covered with long and slender straw-coloredbristles. Distribution.—Northern California and Oregon. The species has little to recommend it for cultivation. Thefruit, though of good size, is said to be dry, and is too prickly tobe of value. 3. R. SUBVESTITUM, Hook. & Arn. (Fig. 82.) Tall, open shrub, 5-10 feet (15-30 decimeters) high,branches rather stiff and upright, sparsely beset with slenderprickles and short glandular-tipped hairs, thorns triple or evenquadruple, long and slender; leaves roundish, less deeply lobedthan in the preceding species, bearing short stalked glands both. Fig. 81. Eibes Menziesii (XX)- WESTJ^BN GOOSEBiJBBIlCS 449 on the upper and under surface, very viscid and heavy scented;peduncles 1-3 flowered; calyx tube broadly eompanulate, lobespurple-red, narrow, twice as long as the tube, reflexed in flower;
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