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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 / American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings
(1818)
Rubus villosus, Tall blackberry, pp. [160]-165
Page [160]
RIUBUS VILLOSUS.
Tall Blackberry.
PLATE XXXVIIL.
THE family of shrubs comprized under the
term Rubus, including the various species of
Raspberry, Blackberry, Dewberry, Sc. is exten-
sively diffused throughout the United States.
Many of them are known as troublesome bram-
bles, a few are unarmed, and a certain number
are nearly herbaceous. Some are distinguished
by the elegance of their flowers, and others by
the deliciousness of their fruit. The Rubus vil-
losus is one of the most common and interesting
species. It abounds among the brushwood of
neglected fields and pastures, about fences and
the borders of woods, from the Eastern to the
Southern states. Being of rapid growth, it is
frequently troublesome to the farmer by spread-
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