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3. R. latifolius (Bab.) ; caule procumbente vel subarcuato anguloso 

 sulcato, aculeis parvis subdeclinatis foliis quinatis utrinque pilosis 

 grosse duplicato-dentatis, foliolo terminali cordato acmninato, in- 

 fimis sessilibus imbricatis, paniculse brevis foliosse pilosae ramis 

 ascendentibus paucifloris corymbosis apice pedicellisque tomen- 

 tosis et hirtis, aculeis brevibus tenuibus declinatis. 



R. latifolius, Bab. Man. ed. 3. 94. 

 R. Cramoudiensis, Bab. in lit. 



Stem usually quite prostrate, angular and furrowed through- 

 out, nearly glabrous but with scattered subscssile glands, not 

 stellately downy nor setose ; prickles nearly all placed on the 

 angles of the stem, rather few, moderately long, slender from a 

 thick base, straight, declining, nearly equal. Leaves quinate, 

 dull green and pilose above, paler and with more numerous hairs 

 beneath, coarsely and irregularly doubly dentate ; midrib and 

 petioles yellowish beneath with a few small weak declining or 

 slightly deflexed prickles ; lower pair of leaflets broadly oblong, 

 acute at both ends, sessile, overlapping the intermediate pair 

 which are of similar shape but larger and shortly stalked ; ter- 

 minal leaflet with a stalk equalling one- third of its length, cor- 

 date-acuminate. Petioles furrowed above. Stipules leaflike, 

 lanceolate- attenuate. 



Flowering shoot long, surrounded at its base by short scales 

 ashy with silky pubescence, angular, green, nearly glabrous ; 

 prickles few, short, weak, from an enlarged base, slender, decli- 

 ning, yellow tinged with purple. Leaves ternate, pilose on both 

 sides but chiefly beneath ; leaflets nearly equal, ovate, acute, 

 deeply and doubly serrate, lower ones often strongly lobed on 

 the outer edge below ; petioles with very few slender declining 

 prickles ; midrib usually unarmed or with very minute prickles. 

 Stipules linear-lanceolate. Panicle short, leafy below, pilose; 

 the upper part and pedicels tomentose and pilose and with a few 

 short sunken setse or subsessile glands ; prickles short, declining, 

 slender, yellow ; branches short, ascending, few-flowered, corym- 

 bose; bracts trifid with narrow lanceolate segments. Sepals 

 ovate acuminate, woolly on both sides, whitish within, rather 

 green and pilose externally, reflexed loosely from the fruit. Pe- 

 tals shortly ovate, clawed. Primordial fruit apparently hardly 

 more than hemispherical. The flowers and fruit require more 

 careful examination. 



In the wood above Cramond Bridge on the Linlithgowshire 

 side of the river ; and in a wood just below the road from Ken- 

 more to Acharn, Perthshire. 



This bramble was noticed in my 'Synopsis of Rubi' (p. 10. 

 Obs. 2) as a probable form of R. Salteri, but 1 have long been 

 convinced that it is quite distinct from that species. It is « 



