Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . nt, and the apparent vigor of the plant, it is a species whichmight well receive attention from the horticulturist. 22. R. SETOSUM, Lindl. (Fig. 91.) Branches commonly covered with slender prickles, which laterscale away with the bark; thorns often several in a whorl; leavescordate, 5-7-lobed, the lobes incised, together with the petiolesminutely pubescent; calyx tube cylindrical, about % of an inch(3 mm.) long, exclusive of ovary and lobes; petals as long as t
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . nt, and the apparent vigor of the plant, it is a species whichmight well receive attention from the horticulturist. 22. R. SETOSUM, Lindl. (Fig. 91.) Branches commonly covered with slender prickles, which laterscale away with the bark; thorns often several in a whorl; leavescordate, 5-7-lobed, the lobes incised, together with the petiolesminutely pubescent; calyx tube cylindrical, about % of an inch(3 mm.) long, exclusive of ovary and lobes; petals as long as thestamens; style commonly 2-cleft, villous; berry dark purple, sour,sometimes hispid. Northwestern Nebraska, west and northward to Ontario. This appears to be the gradation species between B. oxyacan-thoides and B. irriguum. Though the typical form is very distinct,it is so gradually approached by B. oxyacantlioides on the Plainsthat it is at times difficult to separate them. 23. R. OXYACANTHOIDES, Linn. (Fig. 92.) Common shrub, 2-4 feet (6-12 decimeters) high, branches slender, * Trans. Loudon, Hort. Soc. 7 Pig. 90. Rihes irriguum (XI). Fig. 92. Bibes oxyacan-thoides (X%). THE CULTIVATED GOOSEBEBBIES 463 reclined, but often crooked, reddish brown, covered with scaly-gray bark when youno;, commonly smooth, but sometimes withscattered prickles, thorns single or triple, rather slender and veryfinely pointed, /i % inch (6-10 mm.) long, sometimes nearly orquite wanting; leaves thin, roundish, varying from cuneate tocordate, deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes in-cised and coarsely toothed, finely pu-bescent above and beneath, but com-monly glossy wlien growing; pedunclesvery short, 1-2-flowered; calyx greenishwhite, smooth or pubescent without,tube campauulate, lobes oblong or ob-ovate, thin and petal-like, generallyequaling or slightly exceeding the sta-mens in length; petals broadly ovateor spatulate, reaching half way to theanthers; style single or 2-cleft, villous
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