Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . 100. Eibes nigrum {X%). 474 BUSE-FRUITS The species varies widely, and numerous botanical varieties arenoted based on characters of fruit or foliage. Forms occur inwhich the leaves are deeply slit, or parted to the midrib. Inothers, the fruit is yellowish green or whitish. Extensively cultivated in Europe. The plant emits a strong,peculiar odor when E. CEREUM, Dougl. (Figs. 101, 102.) Upright, much-branched shrub, 1-3 feet (3-9 decimeters) high;stem
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . 100. Eibes nigrum {X%). 474 BUSE-FRUITS The species varies widely, and numerous botanical varieties arenoted based on characters of fruit or foliage. Forms occur inwhich the leaves are deeply slit, or parted to the midrib. Inothers, the fruit is yellowish green or whitish. Extensively cultivated in Europe. The plant emits a strong,peculiar odor when E. CEREUM, Dougl. (Figs. 101, 102.) Upright, much-branched shrub, 1-3 feet (3-9 decimeters) high;stem and older branches smooth, gray or brownish; smallerbranches short, minutely pubescent, commonly glutinous, becom-ing rough or warty; leaves roundish or kidney shaped, %-l inch. Fig. 101. Eibes cereum {X%) (12-25 mm.) in diameter, somewhat 3-5-lobed, crenately toothed,firm in texture, with minute white waxy dots on one or both sides;petioles pubescent; racemes short, drooping, compactly 3-5-flow-ered, pubescent, and beset with glandular-tipped hairs whichextend to the bracts and ovary; pedicels very short; bracts ovalor broad and leaf-like, incised at the tip, closely covering thepedicel and ovary; flowers small; calyx-tube narrow, /^-X inch(6-12 mm.) long, somewhat angular, pubescent, nearly white, orpinkish at the base; lobes short, ovate, reflexed; petals minute,orbicular; stamens concealed within the calyx-tube; style slightlyexceeding it, 2-parted at the tip; berry of medium size, brightred, somewhat glandular, sweet, but not agreeable. From New Mexico northward through the Eocky and SierraNevada Mountains to British Columbia. The flowers are commonly almost sessile, but a form fromMontana has slender pedicels, longer than the bracts (var. pedi-cellare,
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