ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 405 



Near Newbury. Mr. Bicheno. Abundant in the beautiful woods 

 of Blaize Castle^ near Bristol, 



Shrub. July, August. 



The barren shoots of this species, which neither Dr. Bellardi nor 

 Professor DeCandoIle, perhaps, has examined, bear leaves with 

 5 ovate, acute, stalked leaflets; those eminent botanists de- 

 scribe the leaves as all tern ate, which is the case with those of 

 the flowering stems only. All the sterns are angular, furrowed 

 towards the top, and, as Mr. Borrer observes, " nearly as stout 

 at the base as those of R.fruticosus, but not so tall." All are 

 copiously beset with scattered, unequal, deflexed, partly hooked 

 prickles, and in the upper part wath glandular bristles. The 

 prickles of the footstalks and ribs of the leaves are plentiful, 

 and strongly hooked. Leajlets on the flowering stems rather 

 obovate, and more jagged 3 all the leaflets are bright green 

 and smooth above; paler and downy beneath, but not hoary 

 except when very young. Stipulas very narrow. Panicle some- 

 what corymbose, not elongated ; its lower branches spreading 

 horizontally; all the general as well as partial stalks are 

 clothed with numerous, partly hooked prickles, abundance of 

 shaggy hairs, and of straight, unequal, glandular-tipped, viscid 

 bristles. The calyx is also hairy, copiously glandular, and more 

 or less armed with straight prickles. The last character, and 

 the prominent glandular bristles of the branches, panicle and 

 calyx, mark this species well, and prevent its being confounded 

 with any variety of the leucostachys, whose glands are minute, 

 and sunk amongst its hoary pubescence. The calyx of R. glan- 

 dulosus sometimes, when extremely prickly, terminates in leafy 

 points. Petals white, narrower than in any of the foregoing. 

 Fiuit black, of numerous, rather small, grains ; its calyx reflexed. 

 My Swiss specimen, gathered by M. Favrod, exactly accords with 

 our English ones in all the above marks. Yet M. Reynier, to 

 whom it was sent, considered it as a variety of the Common 

 Raspberry, R. Id^eus, and wrote a history of it, to that effect, for 

 his Memoires on the Natural History of Switzerland, of which 

 one volume only seems to have been published. It is difficult to 

 imagine the grounds on which his opinion could be founded. 

 My excellent friend Professor DeCandoUe first determined the 

 synonym of Bellardi, who quotes, with doubt, but perhaps justly, 

 R. hybridus of Villars, Dauph. v. 3. 559. 



6. R. nitidus. Smooth Shining Bramble. 



Steins obtusely angular, spreading, smooth. Prickles 



hooked. Leaflets five or three, somewhat hairy beneath. 



Panicle and calyx sparingly prickly, without bristles. 

 R. nitidus. JVeihe and Nees Rub. Germ. 17- t. 4. 

 R. major, fructu nigro. Schniid. Ic. t. 2; according to Weihe and 



Nees. 



