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R, nitklus. U'elhe (ind Npcs Rub. Germ. 1/. f.4. 



R. major, fructu nigro. Schniid. Ic. t. 2 ; accoiding to Weiht? and 



Necs. 



In thickets and woods, not rare. 



On Snelsmore Common, near Newbury. Mr. Ulcheno. In St. 

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

 Shropshii-e. Rev. E. Wiliiauis. 



Shrub. Jnlij, August. 



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

 edges and inside of the aibjx. The prickles of every ))iirt are 

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

 few or no liairs, and no glandular bristles. Lfaves l)right green 

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

 not lioary, with strong prickly midribs, and straight parallel 

 transverse ribs, beneath ; all ])ointed, sharply serrated ; those 

 on the barren stems of 5 leaflets, somewhat j)edate ; the rest 

 of 3. The dowering stems are numerously branched. Panicles 

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

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

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

 nor glands. Bracteas lanceolate, })artly fringed. Cal. bearing 

 a few prickles, hairy, scarcely glandular or viscid, s})readiiig, 

 not strongly reflexed, and sometimes becoming subsequently 

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

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

 indicate two varieties of this species, one with rose-coloured 

 flowers, and acid /r«i<; the other with wh'xiii Jlowers, and a 

 sweet fruit. The latter is judged by them to be Schmidel's 

 plant, cited in Fl. Brit, as my cori/lifulius. I rely on their better 

 oi)j)ortunities of information. No living specimens of B. nitidwi 

 have come under my o])servation. 



7. R. ajlnls. Ovate Hairy Bramble. 



Stem.s ant^iilar, reclininfr, nearly smoolb. Pi ickh s booked. 

 Leaflets five, three, or solitary, ovate-lieait-slKiped, 

 ])oii)te(l ; loosely hairy beneath. Panicle liaiiy and 

 prickly. Calyx hoary, unarmed. 



\\. allinis. Weihe and Nees Rub. Germ. KJ. f.3 ami f.S. b. 



In wof)ds, JK'dges, and bushy i)laces. 



In a lane at Ilactfield, Sussex ; also in Kpping lorcsf. Mi F.. 

 Forsfer. 



Shrul). ,//////, Au^utit. 



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

 pares il also to the second species, R. jdicntus, on account of 

 some slight tin;Iulation, not always very evident, in the central 

 leafiel. It is distinguished from R. nitidus l»y its hairy, (u 

 hoarv, sometimes densely downv, jutttufr, ;\n'i much more 



