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“ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rubus.’ 
height of a man in length, spreading and climbing far and wide, 
_and sometimes striking root ; prickles alternate, strong, bowed 
back. Leaves sharply and unequally serrated, either green on 
both sides, or white and cottony underneath ; the middlemost 
leaf begeste heart-shaped, on a leaf-stalk, the rest sitting, the 
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owermost very small, potensngt backwards. Linn. Leaves, the 
lower pdooaen the upper 3-fingered, and sometimes simple or 
with 2 or 3 lobes. Peta/s flaccid, white, or purplish. Granula- 
tions about 50. Haut. Stems a always angular ; prickles always 
strong and hooked. Leafits usually elliptical, sometimes oval- 
pore oe serrated, dark green above, white witha closedown __ 
und 
sometimes, though rarely, only hairy, ro = pale 
green ; thee most on a long Jeaf-stalk, the next pair on 
short ieafctalks, the lower - see ne 1és€- calle; aie sometimes, 
though rarely, sitting. Mr. Woopwarp. Prick/es broad at the — 
base and flatted. Fruit tckacs : 
Var. 2. major. Leaves i finpered and 5-fingered. Woopw. © 
lag aig ne ee mL ee 
E. bot. 827-Blackw. 45. 1—Park. 1014. 2, but the eat on the 2 
left hand side is that of R. fruticosus. 
Stems roundish ; when growing in hedges frequently stronger 
and larger than the R. fruticosus, but in ditches not larger than 
R. cesius, and throwing out creeping runners ; prick/es smaller 
an those of var. 1, slightly bent, but not hooked. Leaves 
bright grein above, beneath pale and ne rel hairy, but never’ 
y¥ jag 
than in var. 1; in the 3-fingered ones the lateral leafs lobed. 
Fruit-stalks roundish. Flowers smaller, and later than those of 
var. 1, often abortive. Fruit we few and 5 lations, 
i BR. Sy Syn. 
seems to have been clear that. were 2 ecrts “of Great tae 
ifferences. This 
he determined shy examination, if the segments of the ee of 
the fruit are not always bent inwards pe ee the fruit in 
this plant, always bart in the R. cexsius, always re- 
flected back in R. fruticosus. Woopwarp. 
R. coryfolius. E. bot. pe Norfolk, ge ea intef- 
mixed with R. fruticosuse Messrs. Prrcurorp and WoopwarD. 
Var. 3. Fruit white. Bark and leaves of a see green. 
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