ROSACEA. VIII. RuBus. 



533 



SO R,c^Vics(Lin. spec. 706.) stems prostrate, terete, usually furrowed, pubescent, prickly; leaves with 3-5 leaflets; leaflets 

 covered with glaucous, pruinose bloom ; prickles slender, a little obovate, acuminated, sharply and unequally serrated, clothed 

 recurved ; leaves with 3-5 ov^te, doubly serrated leaflets, which with white tomentum beneath ; racemes simple ; lower flowers 



solitary among the leaves. Pj . H. Native of Styria, among 

 bushes on mount Plabutsch above Eggenberg. 

 Pubescent Bramble. Shrub straggling. 

 37 R. FLAGELLA^Ris (Willd. cnum. 549.) stems terete, pro- 



are downy beneath ; panicle simple ; calycine segments ovate, 

 acuminated; akenia thick, few, greyish. I2 . H. Native of Eu- 

 rope, about way sides and on the hedges of fields ; plentiful in 

 Britain. Smith, engl. hot. 82G. and Weih. ex Em. Meyer. Fl. 



dan. 1213. Panicle corymbose ; petals blush-coloured. Fruit cumbent; prickles scattered, hooked, short; branches terete, 



sweet, black, with a dew tinge or bloom. 



glabrous ; leaves trifoliate ; leaflets glabrous, unequally serrated. 



Far* (if arvensis (Wallr. sched. p. 228.) leaflets tomentose be- intermediate one ovate and cimeated at the base, lateral ones 



Death ; branches puberulous. 

 Meyer in litt. 



R. pseudo-cse'sius, Weih. ex Em. 



rhomboid, with yellowish nerves. 

 America. Flowers white. 



Ij . H. Native of North 



tar, y, grandijlbrus (Ser. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 559.) pubes- Var. /3, tnermis (D. C. prod. 2. p. 559.) stems pruinose, and 



cent; petals and calycine segments elongated. Schleich. in litt. 



Vaul.parvifbUas (Wallr. sched. p. 228.) stems ascending, 

 purplish, at length naked ; leaflets small, deeply lobed ; pedun- 

 cles 1-3-flowered. * 



Grey Bramble or Dewberry. Fl. June, July. Britain. Sh. 



prostrate. 



are as well as. the peduncles unarmed; leaflets tomentose be- 

 neath. 



/?«w«er Bramble. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1789. Sh. proc. 



38 R. coRYLiFOLius (Smith, fl. brit. p. 54-2. engl. hot. t. 827.) 

 stem shrubby, angular ; prickles straightish ; leaves with 3-5 

 leaflets ; leaflets roundish, cordate, firm, doubly serrated, pilose 



81 R. DUMEibauM (Weih. et Nees, rub. germ, ex Lindl. syn. beneath ; panicle nearly simple ; calycine segments ovate, acumi- 



_"!' ^' ?; P*^'^ ^^^"^ procumbent, rather angular, rather hairy, nated, at length reflexed. 1^ .H. Native of Europe, in hedges 



and woods ; plentiful in some parts of Britain. Flowers white. 

 Akenia purplish blue, large, li. nemorosus, Heyne ex Spreng. 

 et Goldb. 



With a slight coat of bloom ; bristles and glands very few ; 

 prickles unequal, recurved ; leaflets generally 5, the lateral ones 

 jessile; flowers in corymbs; fruit black, h. H. Native 



ges. 



R. nemorosus, Willd. 



of 



Germany and Britain, in hed^__ 



Jledge Bramble. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. Sh. procumbent. 



32 R. m'RTus (Waldst. et Kit- pi. hung. 2. p. 150. t. 141.) 

 stem prociuTibent, tapering, densely hairy, covered with purple 

 glands and seise ; prickles long, numerous, straight, spreading ; 

 eaflets 3-5, pedate, cordate, ovate, covered with shining hairs be- 

 Death; stipulas leafy ; panicle corymbose, with red setae ; brac- 

 eas loner, trifid. 



Var. ft, caniis (Wallr. sched. p. 231.) leaflets all about the 

 same size, roundish cordate, and clothed with hoary tomentum 

 on both surfaces. 



Far. y, glandulbsus (Wallr. 1. c.) stems, petioles, and pedun- 

 cles glandular. R. glandul6sus, Spreng. ex Wallr. 1. c. 



Hazel-leaved Bramble. Fl. June, July. Britain. Sh. tr. 



39 R. agre'stis (Waldst. et Kit. pi. rar. hung. 3. p. 297. t. 



ledges and woods. 



^ . H. Native of Hungary and Britain, in 2G8.) stems suffVuticose, procumbent, rather angular; prickles 



straight, setaceous; leaflets 3-5^ roundish, lobately toothed, un- 

 equally serrated, pilose above, and tomentose beneath ; calyx 

 clothed with hoary tomentum, and beset with glandular bristles. 

 \2 . H. Native of Hungary and Transylvania, in neglected parts 

 of fields. Flowers white. Perhaps only a variety of 7?. cory- 

 lifblius. 



Field Bramble. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1820. Sh. trailing. 



40 R. specta'bilis (Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 1. p. 348. t. 16.) 



^Qtry Bramble. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. Sh. procumbent. 



33 R. ELLi'pTicus (Smith in Rees* cycl. vol. 30.) leaves tri- 

 oliate ; leaflets oval, serrated, tomentose beneath ; petioles and 

 fanchlets tomentose, covered with numerous bristles and 



ome- 



Pnckles intermixed; stipulas linear-setaceous; flowers gl 



[J^j racemosely corymbose. \i . H. Native of Nipaul, at 



IJethaura, where it is called by the natives toki srva. R. 

 "annlt. ex D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 234. Flowers white. 



R. flavus, 



yellow. 



Fruit stem shrubby, glabrous, unarmed ; leaflets 3, ovate, acute, un- 

 equally and doubly serrated, pubescent beneath ; peduncles ter- 



J^%ic-leafletted Bramble. Fl. July. Clt. 1827. Sh. trailing. 

 5te s^^ca'tus (Vest, ex Tratt. ros. 3. p. 42.) runners and 



1 "^^. ^^^^^t^ly furrowed and ringed, acute-angled, glabrous, 

 abT P"^^scent, flattish on the sides; leaflets glabrous 



^^> and pubescent beneath, the lower and larger ones 

 flor'r ^'^^^^^' ^^ ^^^ flagella 5, ovate and acuminated, and of the 

 flow ^^^^^ branches obovate ; prickles scattered, recurved ; 

 surf^*^^ ""^^^i^ose ; sepals clothed with hoary tomentum on both 



FruU bl' ^^ ^^'*- ^^ *^^ peduncles. T? . H. Native of Styria. 

 Dlack, shining, composed of many akenia. 



J«rrowed-stemmed Bramble. Shrub straggling, 

 '-5 1 fl ^^^^^^^sus (D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 256.) leaves with 

 *hif ^^ ^^ ' ^^aflets cuneate-obovate, serrated, clothed with 

 ,j 5 ^°™entum beneath ; peduncles 3-flowered, and are as well 

 torn ^ P^^'°^^s tomentose and prickly ; calyx unarmed, densely 

 ^otose; bracteoles simple ; stems procumbent ; prickles re- 

 Profl fl ^ • H. Native of Nipaul. R. microphyllus, D. Don, 

 ES • '^^P- P- 234. Very nearly allied to R. parvifbHus, but 

 ^nd rl" ^^^ Jeaves of that plant being twice. the size, more 



I-Aau- ^i'^^ ^^^^ profoundly serrated, in the peduncles being . . ^ , vt • r /- 



powered, in the calyxes bein^ prickly, in the bracteoles being at length reflexed ; bracteas jagged. I? . H. Native oi Germany 



^"■^'le, and in tho Jf^rr. h.;r.J^J.n, and Britain, in hedrres and woods. Evgh hot. suppl. t. 2714. 



curved. 



minal, 1 -flowered, solitary ; calycine segments oblong, acurnm- 

 ated, shorter than the corolla. Fj . H. Native of North 

 America, on the banks of the Columbia river, and on the shore 

 of the western coast. R. ribifolius, Willd. herb, ex Stev. 

 Flowers of a beautiful purple colour. 

 Shervy Bramble. Shrub. 



41 R. Bogote'nsis (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen, amer. 6. p. 

 220.) branches and petioles beset with glandular hairs and 

 prickles, as well as the nerves of the leaves ; leaflets 3, ovate, 

 acute, deeply cordate at the base, serrated, pubescent above, and 

 canescent beneath ; peduncles axillary, few-flowered, panicled. 



Tj . G. Native of Soxxih America, near Santa Fe de Bogota, at 

 the height of 4200 feet above the level of the sea. Fruit 

 blackish purple, like those of R. fruikbsus* 

 Bogota Bramble. Shrub- 



42 R. tlica'tus (Weih. et Nees. rub. germ. p. 15. t. 1.) stem 

 erectish, angular, and prickly, glabrous; prickles rather conical, 

 recurved, and rather compressed at the base ; leaflets 5, smooth- 

 ish above, and pubescent beneadi ; panicle nearly simple, corym- 

 bose; calycine segments ovate, acuminated, naked at the base, and 



/- r \r'^ ^" ^^^ stem being erect. 

 Wi/ Bramble. 



Clt. 1818. Sh. proc 



86 l? -""'*"^» Fl. June, July. 



*^- pube'scens (Vest, ex Tratt. ros. 3. p. 34.) branches 



and Britain, in hedges and woods. En^l. bot. suppl. t. 2714 

 Flowers white. Akenia large, dark, shining. 



Var. /3, glabriuwulus (D. C. prod. 2. p. 560.). R. pllcatus 



