220 Mr. Anperson’s Description of a new British Rubus. 
- Syn. Rubus corylifolius. Smith Flo. Brit. 542. Relhan, Cant. 
ed. 2. 195. Eng. Bot. 827 ; a good figure. | 
R. fruticosus major. With. ed. 3. p. 469. | 
R. major fructu nigro. Schmidel Ic. tom. 8; an excellent figure. 
DESCR. Caules biennes, longissimi, flagelliformes, diffusi, procumbentes, vel per dumeta 
aut sepes sustentati, fragiles et spongiosi, rubicundi, teretiusculi, raro subangu- 
lati, extremitatibus radicantibus ; ubique aculeati, aculeis inzqualibus, gracilibus, 
rectiusculis, Folia ternata vel quinata ; foliolis late ovatis, planiusculis, rugo- 
sis; nervis aculeatis, undique pilosis, subtus mollibus, ineequaliter serratis. Pe- 
tioli aculeati, imis brevissimis. Panicula laxiuscula. Corolla alba. Fructus 
atro-violaceus hemispharicus vel difformis grate acidus; acinis paucis, magnis, 
rotundatis; Calix fructus reflexus. 
Common among ditches and sides of fields about London, and 
indeed all over the island, trailing along the ground, though 
sometimes arching upwards ; and when supported by a hedge or 
pollard, will grow to a great height. I have seen shoots of it in 
such situations eighteen or twenty feet high. Dr. Smith, in 
English Botany, has corrected one mistake that crept into Flora 
Britannica from misinformation ; but has left another still unde- 
tected ; the leaflets being all petiolated, although the lowermost 
pair are much shorter in the petioles than those of R. fruticosus ; 
and the calyx of the fruit is reflexed as in fruticosus, but larger. 
Indeed the whole of Mr. Wigg’s original description seems to refer 
to another plant very common also about London, but not yet 
separated from R. cesius, though apparently very distinct from it. 
I brought this last-mentioned plant four years ago from Charlton 
Wood, and have cultivated it ever since in my garden in com- 
pany with the true cesius. I have since found it to be very com- 
mon at the edges of cultivated fields in Essex, with long trailing - 
shoots quite cylindrical; its leaves:as often of five leaflets as 
three, and the undermost pair of the five quite sessile, and with 
the calyx inflexed. = | 
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