IGO ICOSAN.D. POLYGVN. 



lets roundisli, ovate, sharply serrated, smootli and even above. Pa- 

 7iic.lc rather lax, racemose. Petals rather large, white, obovate. Cai. 

 at length reflexed. Fruit of few perfect grains, deep red, agi-eeuble 

 in flavour, and somewhat resembling that of R. klceus. In liabit re- 

 sembling R. cnnjUfoJlns, but more upright ; leaves having often 

 7 leaflets (never the case witli the other two) whicli are generally 

 more acuminated and smoother on the upper surface, the under- 

 most and upper pair sessile ; the prickles more rare and .shorter, 

 the fruit dark red, not purple, And. 



3. R. cceslus (Dew-berry), leaves ternate very pubescent or hairy 

 beneath the lateral ones much lobed externally, stem prickly 

 rounded prostrate glaucous, cal, embracing the fruit. Ligh/J'. 

 p. 264. E. B. /.8'26. 



Hau. Under hedges and waste places in the Lowlands, but not very 

 common, Ligliff. Between Dalkeith and Perth-head, 9 m. from 

 Edinb., rare, Maiigh. Fl. July. I; . 



Steins weak, glaucous-green, subherbaceous. Leaflets rotundato- 

 ovate, cut, slightly loljed at the marg-in and serrated, the lateral 

 ones with large lobes on the outside. Pet. white or reddish. Fruit 

 rather large, of a few black berries, covered with a blue bloom, of an 

 agreeable subacid fla\our. 



4. R. ccrrylifotius [hazel-leaved Bramble)., ''leaves of about 

 5 ovate leaflets hairy beneath, stems rounded diffuse, \\\i\\ scat- 

 tered nearly straight pricldes." And. in hinn. Trans, v. 11. 

 p. 219. E.B.t.S27. 



Hab. Hedges and borders of fields, occasionally ; banks of the Clyde 

 about Carmyle, Hopk. Hedges and moors, common, D. Dun. 

 Kosslvn woods, Sec, Mr. Greville. Fl. July. T^ . 



Stems very long, trailing (18 — 20 feet. And.) fragile and spongy, 

 reddish, rarely angled, every where having slender straightish 

 prickles. Leaflets hairy, soft beneath. Fruit atroviolaceou.s, hemi- 

 - sphserical, of an agreeable acid ; berries few, rather large, rounded. 

 Cal. of the fruit reflexed. The only steady mark of distinction be- 

 tween the present plant and R.fruficosns, notwithstanding that their 

 general a})pearance is so dissimilar, is that in R.fruticosus the 

 prickles are constantly placed on the ridge of the angle or furrow 

 of the stem, whereas those of R. conjlifuUus, besides -being more 

 slender, more numerous and of irregular size, are indiscriminatelv 

 scattered all over the shoot, whicli is generally round, rarely angled 

 and more spongy and brittle than R. frutic. And. 



5. R.Jh/lico.^us [common Bramble), " leaves of about 5 petiolated 

 leaflets hoary with pubescence beneath, prickly upon the an- 

 gles of the stem, prickles hooked." And. Lin?i. Trans, f. 11. 

 p. 221. Liphtf.p.264. E.B.t.7l5. 



Hab. \\'oods and hedges. Frequent about Glasg., Hopk. Mr. Ander- 

 son observes that it is seen in the N. of Britain, and that he never 

 saw it in Aberdeenshire or Perthshire, where it gives place to R. sub- 

 erectus. Fl. July, fj . 



Stems long and very stout^ with large and mostly hogked prickles. 



