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of Rubus fruticosus. I discovered it a second time in 1811, in 
Dallow Gill, near Ripley, Yorkshire ; and again last autumn in 
the Highlands of Aberdeen and Perthshire in great abundance 
and variety: I also brought a plant of it from the garden of the 
indefatigable Don, at Forfar, three years ago, which is now 
alive in my garden at West Ham, along with other plants of it 
from Aberdeenshire. Don found it on the hills of Forfarshire. I 
find a specimen of it in the Banksian Herbarium, sent from*four 
miles north-west from Manchester ; so that I have reason to believe 
it is not of rare occurrence, growing chiefly among loose stones, by 
` way sides, or at the foot of rocks in upland exposed situations. 
The habit of the plant approaches nearest to that of R. corylifo- 
lius, with which it is frequently intermixed in those districts, in the 
same way as the latter is found with R. fruticosus in the neighbour- 
hood of London. It differs in being more upright in its branches ; - 
in the leaves having often seven leaflets, (never the case with the 
other two,) which are generally more acuminated, and smoother 
on the upper surface; the undermost and uppermost pair ses- 
sile ; in the aculei being more rare and shorter; and in the fruit 
being dark red, not dark purple. Its taste resembles a little that 
of R. ideus. It perhaps might not be unworthy of cultivation, as 
its period of ripening is later than that of the raspberry. The whole 
plant bears in general a darker hue than that of R. corylifolius. 
The impropriety of Mr. Hall’s specific name will I hope be a 
sufficient excuse for my changing it; the plant having never yet 
appeared under it in any botanical work. 
2. RuBvus corylifolius. 
Sprc. Cuar. Rubus foliis subquinatis : foliolis ovatis subtus pilo- 
sis, caulibus teretiusculis diffusis promiscue aculeatis: acu- 
leis rectiusculis. | 
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