A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America Volume N . 48 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...or succulent receptacle, persistent or deciduous. Perennial shrubby or suffruticose plants, with erect or procumbent, mostly prickly and biennial stems. Leaves pinnately or pedately compound, or simple. Rubus villosus Alton.--Common High Blackberry. Description.--Calyx: teeth linear-acuminate. Corolla: petals obovateoblong, spreading, much longer than the calyx, white. Fruit, composed of aggregated drupes, not separating from the succulent, elongated receptacle, one-half to 1 inch long, one-fourth to one-half inch in diameter, black, sweet, and juicy. A shrubby perennial. Stems numerous, 1 to 6 feet high, upright or reclining, furrowed, armed with strong recurved prickles. Leaves 3-foliate or pedately 5-foliate; leaflets ovate or oblong-ovate, mostly acuminate, doubly or unequally serrate, the terminal one somewhat cordate, petiolate. Flowers racemose, numerous, appearing in May and June; the fruit ripens in August and September. Habitat.--Common everywhere along the borders of woods, old fences, and in clearings. The bushes vary greatly in size and general appearance, according to the circumstances of their growth. The fruit also is variable in respect of size, succulence, and flavor. Rubus Canadensis Linne.--Low Blackberry, Running Blackberry? Dewberry. Description.--Calyx: teeth mucronate. Corolla: petals twice the' length of the calyx, white. Fruit similar to the preceding but shorter and thicker, the individual drupes being much less numerous but larger. A low, trailing shrubby plant. Stems at first ascending but ultimately trailing, and rooting when long in contact with the earth, less prickly than the preceding. Leaves 3-foliate, or pedatelj 5-to 7-foliate; leaflets oval or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acuminate, thin, nearly smooth, sharply cut-serrate....