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BRITISH FLORA 



Riibus radiila, Wei he. —The habilat of ihis plant 

 is rou^h bushy places, hedges, &c. The habit is 

 hijfh-archinj;, climbing, or prostrate. The stem 

 is strong, angular. The prickles are rather few, 

 very strong, all on the angles, about equal. The 

 faces of the stem have a very short, nearly equal, 

 mixed armature. The leaflets are finely, closely, 

 greenish-felted below, not overlapping, the ter- 

 minal leaflet broadly egg-shaped, with a long, 

 narrow point. The panicle is showy, pyramidal, 

 with strong prickles. The rachis has many, sunken, 

 unequal, stalked glands, some small acicles, and 

 strong, awl-sh.'iped, rather straight prickles. The 

 sepals are turned back. This species flowers in 

 July and August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus echinatus, Lindl. — The habitat of this 

 species is thickets and hedges. The stem is fur- 

 rowed and hairy. The numerous prickles are 

 long and nearly equal. The leaflets are thick, 

 lobed, deeply cut, with very compound, sharp- 

 pointed teeth, and velvety ashy-felted below when 

 joung, greenish-grey with close felt when older. 

 The panicle is long, narrow, cylindrical, leafy 

 nearly to the top. The sepals have long points 

 and are very strongly bent back. The fruit is long. 

 The furrowed St em (hair}'), unequal prickles, deeply- 

 cut leaflets, narrow cylindrical leafy panicle dis- 

 tinguish the plant from R, radiila ; the dense hair 

 on stem and rachis, deeply cut, thick, leaflets, 

 narrow, less -branched panicle, stouter flower- 

 stalks, larger flowers, from R. rudis. 



Rubus rudis, \Vh. & N. — The habitat of this 

 plant is woods, thickets, and hedges. The habit 

 is arching, prostrate, or climbing, furrowed above, 

 and usually quite smooth, rough, with very short 

 unequal-stalked glands and acicles. The prickles 

 are numerous and short. The leaves are large, 

 the leaflets when young with ashy and white felt 

 below, coarsely and doubly toothed, the terminal 

 leaflet roundish egg-shaped or oval, with a long, 

 narrow point. The panicle is diffuse, broad, 

 with crowded, often interlacing, many-flowered 

 branches. The rachis and long, slender flower- 

 stalk have very crowded stalkless glands. The 

 leaflets are large and wedge-shaped. The flowers 

 are rather small. The plant flowers in July and 

 August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus oigocladus, Muell. & Lef. — The habitat 

 of this plant is woods and thickets. The stem is 

 bluntly angled, dark bluish-green, thinly hairy. 

 The leaflets are pale green, thinly hairy below, 

 the terminal one inversely egg-shaped, with a 

 blunt point, narrowed to the notched base. The 

 panicle is narrow, very loose, with nearly erect, 

 racemose branches forming a corymb. The rachis 

 and flower-stalk have a white felt and dense short 

 hair, nearly hiding the crowded nearly stalkless 

 glands. The sepals are strongly bent back when 

 the petals fall. The fruit is rather long. 



Rubus regillus. Ley. — The habitat of this plant 

 is woods and hedges. The habit is low-arching. 

 The stem is bluntly angled, hairj-, bluish-green, 

 pale, very leafy, with numerous, short, unequal, 

 bristles, and stalked glands rarely exceeding the 

 hair. The leaves are mainly 3-5-lobed. The 



leaflets are large, the terminal one oblong, with 

 a long blunt point. The panicle is long, narrow, 

 forming a raceme above, with short branches of 

 2-4 long, stalked flowers below. The close felt 

 and widespreading hairs obscure the numerous 

 stalked glands and bristles. The sepals are bent 

 back in flower and fruit. The plant resembles 

 R. oigocladus or R. podophyllus, distinguished 

 from the last by the jellowish-green colour, larger 

 leaflets, blunt point, long, dense, widespreading 

 hairs on the rachis, bent-back sepals. 



Rubus podophyllus, P. J. Muell.— The habitat 

 of this plant is bushy places in slate quarries, &c. 

 The habit is nearly prostrate. The stem is bluntly 

 angled, dark, usually nearly smooth. The prickles 

 are unequally scattered. The leaflets are convex, 

 green, with a few widespreading teeth. The 

 terminal leaflet is bluntly and narrowly pointed, 

 oval-oblong, with a rather short point. The panicle 

 forms a raceme above. The rachis has close grey 

 felt. The prickles are chiefly acicular, the acicles 

 and stalked glands are weak and unequal. The 

 plant resembles R. mucronatus and R. melanoxylon 

 or R. encelorum. 



Rubus Griffithianus, Rogers. — This species 

 occurs chiefly in hilly places. The stem and the 

 prickles, which are unequal, are dark-red with 

 appressed and widespreading hairs. The prickles 

 are large, unequal, almost confined to the angles. 

 The leaflets have a white or ashy felt below, the 

 terminal one roundish, inversely egg-shaped, with 

 a long, narrow point. The panicle is rather narrow, 

 loose, nearly cylindrical. The prickles, like those 

 on the stem, are slender, widespreading. The 

 upper leaves are conspicuously white or ashy- 

 felted. The sepals have a pale velvety felt. It is 

 characterized by the unequal, bright-red prickles 

 on stem and panicle, rachis, the white felt on the 

 rachis, sepals, and under surface of the leaflets. 

 The plant resembles R. praruptorttm. 



Rubus prwruptorum, Boul. — The habitat of this 

 species is hedges. It has an arching, prostrate 

 stem, the prickles slightly swollen at the base, 

 with unequal glands and acicles, the leaflets 

 coarsely, unequally, and doubly toothed, softly 

 hairy only on the veins below. The panicle is long, 

 narrow, leafy, the rachis straight, prickles slender, 

 bent down. The sepals are egg-shaped, aciculate, 

 with long bristles. The plant flowers in July and 

 .\ugust. 



Rubus melanodermis, Focke. — The habitat of 

 this species is bushy places and heaths. The habit 

 is prostrate. The stem is nearly smooth, blackish- 

 purple (hence melatiodermis), with a few inter- 

 mediate prickles on the faces. The large prickles 

 are strong. The leaflets are plaited, green, the 

 terminal leaflet inversely egg-shaped, blunt, with 

 .'i long, blunt, narrow point. The panicle is narrow, 

 cylindrical, with short, strongly-ascending lower 

 branches, forming a raceme, and the upper branches 

 are very short. The sepals are bent back in 

 flower and fruit. It differs from R. melanoxylon 

 in being less glandular, and in leaf and panicle; 

 and from R. Bloxamii in the paler, more hairy 

 stem, shorter prickles, more lobed leaflets, &c. 



