Flora of the Northwest Coast; Including the Area West of the Summit of the Cascade Mountains, from the Forty-Ninth Parallel South to the Calapooia Mountains on the South Border of Lane County, Oregon (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. 1915 Excerpt: ...and commonly established as an escape making dense thickets. Rubus spectabilis Pursh. Salmon-berry. Stems 1-3 m. high, armed with weak prickles; leaves mostly 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, acute or acuminate, coarsely serrate, often lobed; flowers red, mostly solitary; fruit a raspberry, yellow or dark-red. In swamps and along streams. Two varieties occur, one the betterflavored with salmon-yellow fruits, the other with reddish-black fruits. The latter is also distinguishable by the purple color of the twigs. The young fleshy shoots are sweet and are often eaten by children and were formerly used as food by the Indians. Rubus leucodermis Dougl. Blackcap. Erect shrubs, the biennial stems 1-2 m. high, very glaucous, armed with stout straight or curved prickles; leaves 3-foliolate, rarely 5-foliolate; leaflets ovate, acuminate, doubly serrulate, white-pubescent beneath, the lateral ones oblique and frequently with one or two lobes; petioles and midveins prickly; flowers small, in few-flowered corymbs; petals white, small, erect, shorter than the reflexed sepals; fruit nearly black when mature, hemispherical, glaucous or tomentose, about 1 cm. broad. In open woods. Young shoots sweet and edible. 273. ROSA. Rose. Erect or climbing shrubs, usually with prickly stems; leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, with adherent stipules; leaflets mostly serrate; flowers solitary or in corymbs; calyx-tube cup-or urnshaped, becoming fleshy in fruit, usually 5-lobed, without bractlets; petals 5, large, obcordate; stamens numerous, on the calyx-tube; styles distinct or united; carpels numerous, sessile, within the calyx-tube; akenes numerous, enclosed in the berry-like calyxtube. Leaves very glandular beneath. R. rubiginosa. Leaves not very glandular. Flowers small, about 2 cm. in dia...