404 ICOSANDRIA--POLYGYNIA. Rtilms. 



In Sir Michael le Flemings woods at Rydall, Westmoreland, 

 where no other Bubus grows. Mr. D. Turner. Common in 

 Sussex. Mr. Borrer. As common iu Essex. Mr. E. Furster. 

 Near Newbury. Mr. Bicheno. 



Shrub. Jniy, 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- 

 Bcribe the leaves as all ternate, which is the case with those of 

 the flowering stems only. All the stems 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, dettexed, partly hooked 

 prickles, and in the upper }>art with glandular bristles. The 

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

 and strongly hooked. Lecifleh on the flowering stems rather 

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

 and smooth above j pakr and downy beneath, but not hoary 

 except when very young. Stipidas very narrov>'. Panicle some- 

 what corymbose, not elongated ; its lower branches spreading 

 horizontally) alt 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 brtmches, panicle and 

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

 with any variety of the leucostachijs, 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. 

 Fruit black, of numerous, rather small, grains; its calyx re- 

 flexed. 



My Swiss specim.en, 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, /?. Idceus, and wrote a history of it, to that eflect, 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 DeCandoIle 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. 



Stems obtusely angular, spreading, smootli. Prickles 

 hooked. Leaflets five or three, somewhat hairy beneath. 

 Panicle and calyx sparingly prickly, without bristles. 



