Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Fig. 64. Eubus vitifolms.—Skagit Chief dewberry (X%). Original distribution.—The coast ranges of California, Oregonand Washington, the valley of the Willamette, and also in Idaho. This is an exceedingly variable species. Different specimensof it were originally described on adjoining pages by the sameauthors as two species under the names B. vitifolius and Later the pistillate form was described by Douglas asB. macropetalus. Some forms are hermaphrod
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Fig. 64. Eubus vitifolms.—Skagit Chief dewberry (X%). Original distribution.—The coast ranges of California, Oregonand Washington, the valley of the Willamette, and also in Idaho. This is an exceedingly variable species. Different specimensof it were originally described on adjoining pages by the sameauthors as two species under the names B. vitifolius and Later the pistillate form was described by Douglas asB. macropetalus. Some forms are hermaphrodite, others stami- PACIFIC COAST DEWBERRY 333 nate, with abortive pistils, and still others pistillate, with onlyrudimentary stamens. Some forms are wholly trailing, whileothers have strong and nearly upright stems. The staminate. Fig. 65. Rubus hispidus (XK). forms are said to be the stouter. The Aughinbaugh and othersbelong here. Professor Piper writes that it is abundant in west-ern Washington, especially in old ^burns, and fine flavored berries 334 BUSH-FRUITS are gathered each year in great quantities. It is locally calledblackberry, although it is really a dewberry. 32. R. HISPIDUS, L.—Running Swamp Blackberry. Stems slender, scarcely woody, long and trailing, bearingnumerous small reflexed prickles; stipules linear, conspicuous;leaflets 3, rarely pedately 5, smooth, thickish, mostly persistentduring winter, obovate, obtuse, coarsely serrate, entire toward thebase; flowering shoots mostly glabrous, often bristly, and evenglandular above when yOung, several flowered; flowers small,sepals ovate, mucronate, half the length of the obovate, whitepetals; fruit of few grains, dark red or purplish (Fig. 65). !-ln low woods or swampy ground from NovaScotia to Georgia, and westward to eastern Kansas
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