408 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 



prickles j its segments moderately spreading while in flower, 

 afterwards reflexed, but not closely. Pet. crumpled. Berry of 

 a ratlier small number of dark red, or blood-coloured, not 

 purple, grains, said to be agreeably acid, with some flavour of 

 the Raspberry, ripening later than that fruit, and it is therefore 

 recommended by Mr. Anderson as perhaps not unworthy of 

 cultivation. 



The foliage of this species is in one respect peculiar. Some of 

 the leaves on the barren stems, though generally of 5 leaflets, 

 the 2 lowermost of which are quite sessile, are often furnished 

 with a pair^-of similar small leaflets on the central stalk, below 

 the terminal one, so that the whole leaf is partly digitate, partly 

 pinnate, combining the foliage of the Bramble and the Rasp- 

 berry, The leaflets are all of a deep green, ovate, or heait- 

 shaped, pointed, sharply serrated ; quite smooth above ; paler, 

 with hairy ribs and veins, beneath. Stipulas linear-lanceolate. 

 Footstalks sparingly and minutely prickly, 



I have confined my description entirely to British native specimens. 

 The R. fastigiatus of Weihe and Nees agrees well with our 

 plant, and those authors notice a near approach to the peculiar 

 form of the leaves, " the middle leaflet being sometimes deeply 

 divided into 3 parts." But they describe the fruit of" a deep 

 shining black," which seems an essential difference ; and they 

 most unaccountably refer the plant of Engl. Bat. to their nitidus, 

 to which I am very sure it bears very little relationship, that spe- 

 cies having black berries, sharp strongly-hooked prickles, a com- 

 pound panicle, and a great difterence of habit. 



My references to the Rubi Germanici will be found not always to 

 agree with the pages of that work, which, however excellent in 

 more important particulars, is singularly erroneous in numerical 

 matters ; nor does its synonymy on the whole seem so masterly 

 as the plates and descriptions. Pollich's description of R.fru- 

 ticosiis, so indiscriminately laboured, conveys no precise ideas 

 to my mind of the present species, though the able writers just 

 mentioned are of a difl^erent opinion. I regret that their work 

 goes no further at present than R. tomentosus ; a curious spe- 

 cies, not yet found in Britain, remarkable for the softness of its 

 leaves. 



*■* Stems shrubby, round. 

 9. R. idcPMs. Raspberry. 



Stems round, erect, smooth, with downy branches ; their 

 prickles straight and slender. Leaves pinnate, of five or 

 three, ovate, rather angular leaflets, very downy beneath. 

 Clusters prickly, somewhat compound. Flowers pen- 

 dulous. 



R. idaeus. Linn. Sp. Pl.706. mild. v. 2. 108]. Fl.Br.54l. Engl. 



