The Flowering Raspberry.
Rubus odoratus, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1085. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. i. p. 348.—Icosandria Polygynia, Linn. Rosaceæ, Juss.
This species of rasp has the stems hispid; the leaves three or five-lobed, acute; the flowers in lateral and terminal corymbs, with divaricate stalks and appendiculate calyces. It is abundant in the Middle and Eastern, but rare in the Southern and Western Districts. It forms part of the rich undergrowth of our woods, and also grows in old fields with other species of the genus. The flowers are rose-coloured and showy, but destitute of odour, and the fruit is delicious and highly fragrant, from which circumstance the species derives its name.