4Q8 ICOSANDBIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubiis. 



Clusters prickly, somewhat compound. Flowers pen- 

 dulous, 



R.idaeus. Linn. Sp. PL 706. mild. v. 2. \08\. Fl.Br.54\. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 34. t, 2442. Woodv. t. 138. Hook. Scot. 159. Fl. Dan. 

 t.78B. Ger.Em.[272.f. Matth.Valgr.v.2.?ib7.f. Cliis. Hist. 

 v.\.]l7.f. Dcdcch. Hist. 123./. Cmner. Epit. 752. /. bad. 

 Ehrh.Jrh.26. 



R. n. 1108. Hall. Hist. V. 2. A\. 



R. idaeus spiiiosus, fructu rubio. Uait Syn.A67. Bauh. Hist, v, 2. 

 59./. 



In mountainous woods and thickets. 



Plentiful in Wales, Scotland, and the north of England. On 

 woody hills between Norwich and Thorpe, truly wild. ,Mr. 

 Borrer finds it abundantly in some of the forests of Sussex. 



Shrub. Maij, June. 



Root creeping. Stem$ biennial, erect, 3 or 4 feet high, branched, 

 round, })ale or puri)lish, more or less besprinkled with small, 

 straight, slender prickles, frequently rather resembling bristles, 

 sometimes said to be altogether wanting; the young leafy 

 flowering-branches are downy and simple. Leaves pinnate, 

 with 2 pair of lateral leaflets and a larger terminal one; those 

 of the upper or flowering branches usually ternate only ; all the 

 leaflets ovate, acute, serrated, or cut and angular ; green and 

 nearly smooth above ; clothed beneath with white cottony 

 down ; their ribs slightly i)rickly. Footstalks downy and prickly, 

 with a longitudinal furrow. Stipulas narrow, united laterally to 

 the footstalks. FL small, white, pendulous, in drooping, ter- 

 minal, mostly simple, clusters, whose stalks are furnished with 

 hooked prickles, such as are now and then found on the downy 

 wide- spreading calt/x. Petals narrow, erect. Fruit crimson, of 

 numerous juicy grains, beset with the permanent styles, and 

 highly fragrant, with a very deliciously perfumed sweet and acid 

 flavour, more exquisite in the wild state, in general, than when 

 cultivated. There are several garden varieties, one with a pale 

 amber-coloured //ja;;, and another which bears late in autumn. 



10. R. corylifolhis. Hazel-leaved Bramble. 



Stems round, spreading; barren ones somewhat angular. 



Prickles scattered, straight, deflexed. Leaflets five or 



three, roundish-heart-shaped ; finely hairy beneath. 



Panicle minutely glandular, as well as the reflexcd 



calyx. 

 U. corylifolius. FL Br. 542. Engl. Bot. v. 12. L 827. Comp. 70. 



Anders. Tr. of L. Soc. i.-. 1 1 . 2 1 9. Hook. Scot. 1 GO. 

 R. fruticosus. Ehrh. PL Off, 415. Hoffm. Germ, for 1800. 231 j 



according to the author. 



