Rubric
in the language of the old copies of MSS. and of modern printers, any writing or printing in red ink; the date and place in a title-page being frequently in red ink, the word rubric has come to signify the false name of a place a title-page. Thus, many books printed at Paris bear the rubric of London, Geneva, etc. on In law, the title of a statute; so called as being formerly written in red characters. Also, in MS. missals, the direction prefixed to the several prayers and offices formerly written in red; hence, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; also the rubric familiarly signifies the order of the liturgy in the Roman Cathoalso the rubric familiarly signifies the order of the liturgy in the Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal Churches. Hence, that which is definitely fixed or authoritatively established; as, the rubric of the planetary system. creeping herbs or sarmentose shrubs, almost always prickly; flowers in panicles or solitary, white or red. Fruit of sevcreeping herbs or sarmentose shrubs, al' most always prickly; flowers in panicles or solitary, white or red. Fruit of sevabout 100, chiefly from the north tempertuberant fleshy receptacle; known species about 100, chiefly from the north temper- In North America the leaves ate zone. gent. The leaves of R. arcticus have been used as a substitute for tea. Several Himalayan species or sub-species have edible fruits.