ON RUBUS RAMOSUS. 331 



well-marked English Bramble of the Rhainiiifolii group, that some have 

 supposed mig'ht prove identical with it, which has lji;eu named raniosns 

 by the Rev. A. Bloxam, one of the greatest British authorities on Ruhi. ; 

 but which seems never to have been described, although common over 

 a large tract of country around Plymouth. 



I shall, in the first phice, give a description of it, drawn up from a series 

 of specimens in my own herbarium, collected in Devon and Cornwall; 

 then say in what respects it differs frm SchUrknuii, as represented in 

 Mr. Baker's herbarium, as well as from rhnmnifulins, VV. and N. ; and 

 aft(!rwards add a list of the localities where I have seen it growing. The 

 following is the description : — 



Stem erect-arcuate, rooting at the end, round or augidar below, more 

 angular towards the top, conspicuously furrowed, often purplish or 

 shining in exposure, quite glabrous, or with very few inconspicuous silky 

 hairs, no aciculi or setye. ' Prickles scattered, confined to the angles, from 

 a long compressed base, strong, sharp, patent or slightly declining. 

 Leaves 5-nate, or here and there 3-nate and lobed. Leaflets often con- 

 spicuously convex above, not overlapping one another, shining, with a few 

 scattered silky hairs, moderately pilose below, and sometimes white-felted 

 also, coarfely serrate; terminal leaflet with a stalk at least one-third of 

 its length, ovate or obovate, cuspidate, sometimes slightly cordate at the 

 base ; intermediate leaflets conspicuously stalked, obovate with narrow 

 base, shortly cuspidate ; basal very shortly stalked, narrowly ovate or 

 obovate, with very short point ; in the case of a 3-nate leaf the side 

 leaflets are much lobed and dilated on the outer side ; midribs with a few 

 small hooked prickles ; petioles with slight pubescence ; stipules linear 

 with silky hairs. Flowering shoot angular or furrowed, long, with short, 

 not dense, silky hairs. Prickles few, short, hooked, those on the lower 

 part of the shoot very small. Leaves mostly 3-nate ; terminal leaflet 

 obovate, shortly cuspidate, sometimes slightly cordate at the base; other 

 leaflets ovate, with the outer sides much dilated and often conspicuously 

 dentate or lobed, all irregularly serrate, especially towards the points, 

 slightly pilose above, more so below, the upper ones of the panicle often 

 white-felted also ; veins prominent. Panicle sometimes compound, leafy 

 below, of moderate length, top rounded, often flexuose or with waved 

 rachis below, branches long with from 5 to 3 flowers near the top of 

 each, two or three lower branches axillary sparingly pilose, the branches 

 covered with ash-coloured felt. Prickles scattered, declining, sharp, very 

 few near the top of the panicle and on the branches. Sepals ovate, with 

 short linear points, rather sparingly pilose on the outside, white- or ashy- 

 felted both within and without, rcflexed. Petals broad, ovate, white or 

 very light pink, nearly entire, sometimes notched at the end, claw very 

 short. Filaments white. Styles dull brownish-pink. Fruit poor, irre- 

 gularly formed, some of the dru|)cs generally proving abortive. 



From Sc/dick/imi this plant dirt'ers by being less hairy generally, more 

 especially on the flowering shoots, by having no aciculi or setie, which are 

 apparent both on the barren stem and panicle of the other, by having 

 coarser and less regular serratures to its leaves, and by their points being 

 cuspidate rather than acuminate. Its panicle is more corymbose at the 

 top, its sepals broader, and without glands. Schlicknrui lias the sepals 

 renuirkably narrower, and scattered glands appear at the back. The 

 dissimilarity of the two plants in general appearance is greater than the 



