_Cal._ 5-fidus. _Petala_ 5. _Bacca_ composita acinis monospermis.
RUBUS _odoratus_ foliis simplicibus palmatis, caule inermi multifolio multifloro. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 475._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 210._
RUBUS odoratus. _Corn. Canad. 149. t. 150._
Botanists and Gardeners have given to this species of Rubus the name of _flowering_, not because it is the only one which produces flowers, but from its being regarded for its flowers merely; they indeed are so shewy, and so plentifully produced, that the plant has long been thought to merit a place in most shrubberies; to the various inhabitants of which, both in the largeness and elegant form of its leaves, and the colour of its blossoms, it forms a pleasing contrast.
It is extremely hardy, and easily propagated by suckers; the only care which it requires, is to keep it within proper bounds: young plants of it produce the largest and finest flowers.
It blossoms from June to September, is a native of different and distant parts of North-America, and was cultivated here by Mr. Miller, in 1739.
Cornutus, who first figured and described this plant, gave it the name of _odoratus_, on account of the fragrance of its foliage; his words are "elegantissimi hujus folia fragrantissima sunt, paremque agrimonio odorato spirant odorem;" the fruit, rarely produced with us, he observes, is like the common Raspberry, but not so pleasant.
Antirrhinum Triphyllum. Three-Leaved Toad-Flax.
_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ basis deorsum prominens nectarifera. _Caps._ 2-locularis.
ANTIRRHINUM _triphyllum_ foliis ternis ovatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 555._ _Ait. Kew._
LINARIA triphylla minor lutea. _Bauh. Pin. 212._
LINARIA triphylla coerulea. _Bauh. Pin. 212._
LINARIA hispanica. _Clus. Hist. 1. p. 320._
LINARIA valentina. Tode Flaxe of Valentia. _Park. Par. p. 268._
The _Antirrhinum triphyllum_, so called from the leaves growing by threes on the stalk (a character, by the bye, not very constant) was cultivated by Parkinson, and described by him in his _Parad. terr._ He appears to have been a stranger to the particoloured variety now so generally cultivated as an ornamental annual in our gardens; in its wild state the flowers of this _Antirrhinum_ are of a yellow hue, with little or no purple in them, such indeed are frequently produced from seeds sown in our gardens.