402 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 



2. R. plicaius. Plalted-leaved Bramble. 



Stems angular, all nearly erect. Prickles deflexed. Leaflets 

 five or three, separately-stalked, ovate, plaited; hoary 

 beneath. Panicle compound, corymbose. Calyx re- 

 flexed, unarmed. 



R. plicatus. HVihe and Nees Rub. Germ. 13. t. 1. 



In hedges. 



Common in hedges in Shropshire. Rev. Edward Williams. 



Shrub. July. 



Stems 4 feet or more in height, all nearly erect, but according to 

 Weihe and Nees the barren ones are in shady situations consi- 

 derably elongated ; they are reddish when exposed to the sun, 

 otherwise green, angular, but not furrowed, smooth, or slightly 

 hairy towards the panicle only. Prickles smaller than in the 

 foregoing, pale, deflexed or partly hooked, on the angles of the 

 stem, not very numerous ; those on the footstalks, and ribs of 

 the leaves, copious, reddish, and rather more curved. Leaves 

 of the barren stems, and lower part of the fertile ones, of 5 

 leaflets; upper ones on the latter of 3 ; the uppermost of all 

 simple, occasionally three-lobedj the xaiMXe leaflet on a long 

 stalk, the rest on shorter ones, all distinct and somewhat hairy : 

 leaflets larger than in the preceding species, broadly ovate, 

 acute, or pointed, coriaceous, more or less plaited towards the 

 margin, strongly and unequally serrated, sometimes jagged ; 

 their under surface hoary and finely downy, but not white or 

 cottony, strongly ribbed, with many fine, transverse, parallel, 

 connecting veins. Stipulas like the last. Panicle shorter and 

 more corymbose, hairy, not white and downy, nor does it bear 

 scarcely any glandular bristles ; in my only specimen it is twice 

 or thrice compound, in the figure quoted simple, in both inter- 

 spersed, more or less, with simple, ovate leaves, bearing large 

 stipulas. Bracteas like the latter. Flowers white. Calijx re- 

 flexed. I have not seen the fruit. It is said to be acid, black 

 and shining. 



3. R. rhamnifolms . Buckthorn-leaved Bramble. 



Stems angular, furrowed; barren ones arched. Prickles 

 deflexed, straight. Leaves slightly pedate, of five or 

 three orbicular, obovate, or somewhat heart-shaped, 

 pointed leaflets; hoary beneath. Panicle twice com- 

 pound, finely hairy. Calyx spreading. 



R. rhamnifolius. Weihe and Nees Rub. Germ. 20. t. 6 ; excl. Engl. 

 Bot. /. 715, and perhaps Lam. t. 44\.f 2. 



Rubus. Trag. Hist.970.f. Fuchs. Hist. 152. f. " DeCand. Fr. 

 V. 4. 475." 



