406 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 



In thickets and woods, not rare. 



On Snelsmoie Common, near Newbury. Mr. Bicheno. In St, 

 Leonard's forest, Sussex (also in Normandy). Mr. Borrer. In 

 Shropshire. Rev. E. Williams. 



Shrub, July, August. 



A slender straggling plant, with no hoariness, except about the 

 edges and inside of the calyx. The prickles of every part are 

 strongly hooked. Stems reddish, with obsolete or blunt angles, 

 few or no hairs, and no glandular bristles. Leaves bright green 

 and shining on their upper side ; paler and minutely hairy, but 

 not hoary, with strong prickly midribs, and straight parallel 

 transverse ribs, beneath ; all pointed, sharply serrated ; those 

 on the barren stems of 5 leaflets, somewhat pedate ; the rest 

 of 3. The flowering s/ews are numerously branched. Panicles 

 simple, or slightly compound, sometimes aggregate, all erect, 

 with slender hairv stalks, and a few strong scattered prickles, 

 (in Mr. VA^illiams's specimens chiefly at the base,) but no bristles, 

 nor glands. Bracteas lanceolate, partly fringed. Cat. bearing 

 a few prickles, hairy, scarcely glandular or viscid, spreading^ 

 not strongly reflexed, and sometimes becoming subsequently 

 inflexed. Pet. broadish, white or pink. Fruit black and shining, 

 of large but few grains. The authors of the Rubi Germanici 

 indicate two varieties of this species, one vA'ith rose-coloured 

 Jluwers, and acid fruit ; the other with white jiowers, and a 

 sweet /rwi^. The latter is judged by them to be Schmidel's 

 plant, cited in Fl. Brit, as my corylifolius. I rely on their better 

 opportunities of information. No living specimens of R. nitidus 

 have come under my observation. 



7. R, ajffi7iis. Ovate Hairy Bramble. 



Stems angular, reclining, nearly smooth. Prickles hooked. 

 Leaflets five, three, or solitary, ovate-heart-shaped, 

 pointed ; loosely hairy beneath. Panicle hairy and 

 prickly. Calyx hoary, unarmed. 



R. affinis. Weihe and Nees Rub. Germ. 16. ^ 3 and t. 3. 6. 



In woods, hedges, and bushy places. 



In a lane at Hartfield, Sussex j also in Epping forest. Mr. E. 

 Forster. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Most nearly related to the last, as Dr. Weihe observes. He com- 

 pares it also to the second species, R. plicatus, on account of 

 some slight undulation, not always very evident, in the central 

 leaflet. It is distinguished from R. nitidus by its hairy, or 

 hoary, sometimes densely downy, panicle, and much more 

 hoary calyx, the latter being destitute of prickles. The leaflets 

 also are larger, more pliant, and finely hairy or downy on both 

 sides in some degree, though scarcely ever hoary. The prickles 



