ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 411 



R. repens, fructu csesio. Bauh. Pin. 479. Goochjer in Ger. Em. 12/1. 

 R. minor. Dod. Pempt. 742./. 



In woods, bushy places, under hedges, and in the borders of fields. 



Shrub. June, July. 



The stems are trailing-, prostrate, weak, round, glaucous, leafy, 

 armed with copious, deflexed, unequal, slender, bristly prickles. 

 Leaves of 3 ovate, acute, doubly serrated leajleis, downy beneath ; 

 some of the almost sessile lateral ones, on the fertile as well as 

 barren stems, are deeply lobed at the outside. Footstalks with 

 a few small prickles, rather deflexed than hooked. Stipidas va- 

 riable, mostly veiy narrow. Panicles corymbose, of a few white, 

 or blush-coloured, J^oiters; their stalks beset with straight de- 

 flexed prickles, and generally with plenty of glandular bristles, 

 more prominent than in the last. The calijx also, sometimes 

 very prickly, is covered with similar projecting bristles, and its 

 segments, which are considerably pointed, close over the ripe 

 fruit, whose grains are few, large, juicy, black, with a fine glau- 

 cous bloom, and very agreeably acid. Seeds large, compressed, 

 deeply pitted. 



This is a variable species, often approaching some varieties of the 

 last, and sometimes having 5 leaflets, as Mr. G. Anderson re- 

 cords under his account of the corylifolius, Tr. of L. Soc. v. l\. 

 220 ; while on the other hand, " small specimens occur in 

 chalky thickets," as Mr. liorrer observes, " which at first sight 

 strikingly resemble R. saxatilis." These species are, neverthe- 

 less, perfectly distinct. 



Bohemian specimens of the R. nemorosus of Hayne, sent by a 

 learned and experienced traveller, Mr. Sieber, are certainly in 

 part ccEsius, though one of them approaches corylifolius, except 

 having much smaller leaves, and 2iXigxj\?iX flowering-branches. 



*** Stems herbaceous. 



12. R. saxatilis. Stone Bramble. 



Leaflets three. Stems ascending, slightly prickly, herba- 

 ceous, with prostrate runners. Panicle with few flowers. 

 Calyx of the fruit converging, without prickles or glands. 



R. saxatilis. Linn. Sp. PL 708. Willd. v. 2. 1088. Fl. Br. 544. 



Engl. Bol. v.2,2. ^2233. Hook. Scot. 161. Fl. Dan. 1. 134. Ger. 



Em. 1273./. 

 R. n. nil. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 43. 



R. saxatilis alpinus. Clus. Pan. 1 15./. 1 16. Hist. v.]. 1 18./. 

 R. alpinus humilis. Bauh. Hist. r. 2. 61./ 

 Chamserubus saxatilis. Bauh. Pin. 479. Raii Syn. 261. 



In dry stony mountainous woods, especially in Scotland^ and the 



north of England. 

 Perennial. June. 



