ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. Ill 



R. saxatilis alpinus. Chis. Pan. 1 15./ IK). Hist. v. 1. 1 18./. 

 R. alpinus humilis. Baiih. Hist. v. 2. 61./ 

 Chamserubus saxatilis. Bauli. Pin. 470. Rail Syn. 261. 



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

 north of England. 



Perennial. June. 



Root ratlier woody. Herb of a light green, slightly downy or 

 hairy, not hoary, throwing out a few very long, round, trail- 

 ing runners, either naked or leafy, taking root at the extremity, 

 where they, in the following spring, send up one or two simple 

 herbaceous flowering stems, from 3 to 6 inches high, which are 

 angular, slightly hairy, and often armed with a few small, weak, 

 spreading prickles. These stems bear 2 or 3 alternate, long- 

 stalked, ternate, serrated or notched leaves, not unlike those of 

 a Strawberry, the mode of growth of the two plants being also 

 very similar. Stipulas elliptic-oblong. Panicle terminal, corym- 

 bose, simple, downy, seldom a little prickly, of 3 or 4 upright, 

 small, greenish-white ^ott'er^. Ca/. angular at the base; its 

 segments oblong, downy within, externally somewhat hairy, 

 but not at all prickly or glandular ; spreading in the Jlower ; in- 

 flexed, but not closely, in ihe fruit; which consists of 1,2, or 

 3 large crimson grains, agreeably acid, but not })erfumed. 

 Seeds large, tumid, pitted, and elegantly wrinkled. 



By the above description, it is evident that this sjjecies can never 

 be confounded with any variety of the Dew-berry. 



13. IX. ca^cticiis. Dwarf Crimson Bramble. 



Leaflets three, bluntly serrated. ISteni without prickles, 

 bearing one or two solitary flowers. Petals roundish. 



R. arcticus. Linn. Sp. PL 708. Fl. Lapp. n. 207. ed. 2. 170. /. 5. 

 f. 2. JVilld. r 2. 1088. Fl. Br. 544. Engl. But. v. 23. t. 1585. 

 ^ Hook. Scot. \C)\. Curt. Mag. t. \32. Fl. Dan. t.4SS. 



R. humilis, flore pur])urco. Buxb. Cent. 5. 13. /. 26 ; very bad. 



R. trifolius humilis non spinosus, sajjore cf odore Krauariie, friiciu 

 rubro polycocco, Rubo idaeo siinili. Amni. Ruth. 185. 



R. humilis, Fragariie folio, fruclu rui)ro. Rudb. It. Lapp. [). Act. 

 Suer. 1720. [)i). 



Fragaria fruticans. Rudh. Hurt. Ups. cd. 1. 17. 



On stony mountainous moors, rare. 



In rocky mountainous parts of tlie isle of Mull. R(v. Dr. U\ilk<r. 



On Ben-v-glo, above hlair, Scotland. Mr. Cotton. 



I'erennial. .)/</7/, June. 



Roots slender, creeping, branched, but without rumuTs. Stems 

 herbaceous, erect or ascending, 3 or 4 inches higli, leafy, angu- 

 lar, smooth, mostly simple and sijigle-flowcreih l.Kins about 

 .'> or 4, alternate, un rather long, cliannelled, shghtly downy 

 footstalks; each of 3 strawberry-like Unficls, stioiigly ribln^d 

 and broaflK as well as bluntly sirrutid ; smooth above ; often 



