Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . beneath, silky pubescent on the veins beneath, 3-5-cleft, thelobes very narrow, acuminate, doubly and sharply serrate, centrallobe much longer than the lateral ones; flowers three fourths ofan inch (20 mm.) broad; sepals narrow, acuminate; petalsbroadly ovate; fruit small, of little value. Japan.—Said by Luther Burbank to have entered into hybridswhich he considers valuable; but otherwise unknown in this coun-try. The fruit is occasionally eaten by the Japanese
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . beneath, silky pubescent on the veins beneath, 3-5-cleft, thelobes very narrow, acuminate, doubly and sharply serrate, centrallobe much longer than the lateral ones; flowers three fourths ofan inch (20 mm.) broad; sepals narrow, acuminate; petalsbroadly ovate; fruit small, of little value. Japan.—Said by Luther Burbank to have entered into hybridswhich he considers valuable; but otherwise unknown in this coun-try. The fruit is occasionally eaten by the Japanese. 3i: BUSH-FRUITS 10. R. ARCTicus, Linn. Stem low, herbaceous, sometimes dioecious, slightly pubescent,mostly erect, 1-2-flowered; leaves trifoliolate; leaflets rhombic-ovate or obovate, coarsely and often doubly serrate, slightly petio-late; flowers rose-colored, %-l inch (12-25 mm.) broad; calyxslightly pubescent, sepals lanceolate, sometimes slightly dilated atthe tip, nearly as long as the petals; petals obovate to oblanceo-late; fruit amber-colored, pleasant (Fig. 54). Var. grandiflorus, Ledeb. Stem shorter, leaflets more. Fig. arcticus (XI). rounded, lateral ones sessile; petals larger, obovate, oblong;sepals narrower, often much elongated. Distribution.—Northern countries of the three continents. InAmerica it occurs in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific, but not inthe Atlantic alpine region. PACIFIC COAST BASPBEBRF 313 This pretty little plant was a favorite of Linn^us, who calledit a beneficent plant, and said that he would indeed be un-grateful did he not give a full description of it, since the vinousnectar of its berries frequently recruited his spirits when almostprostrate with hunger and R. PEDATUS, Smith. Stems slender, pubescent, creeping or filiform; leaves smoothor sparingly villous; leaflets cuneate-obovate, not exceeding an
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