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BRITISH ILORA 



with sliort-slalkccl jjUuids and scale-like tubercles. 

 The liaMets have line teeth and a short point, and 

 are wrinkled. The panicle is narrow, with short 

 hair and short-stalked g^lands on the rachis and 

 flower-stalks. Thi- plant flowers in July and 

 August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Kubiis Ihyrsigcr, Bab. — The habitat of this plant 

 is bushy places and hedg'es. The habit is archinyf, 

 prostr.ile. The stem has abundant, somewhat 

 spreading^, partly closely - pressed hairs. The 

 leaflets .ire irreg^ularly and coarsely toothed, the 

 terminal one obtusely .ingled, inversely cggf- 

 shaped, nearly wedge-shaped at the base, which 

 is entire. The panicle is loose and long, forming 

 more or less of a raceme, the upper part long with 

 i-2-flowered branches, the flowers on long stalks, 

 with acicular prickles. The flowers are very 

 showy. The plant is like R. niicans and R. 

 oigoclndus, with more unequal prickles, and dis- 

 tinguished by the remarkably hairy stem and 

 rachis, the long nearly naked panicle, numerous 

 i-2-flowered, long-stalked branches, and handsome 

 flowers. 



Rubtis Linloni, Focke. — The habitat of this 

 plant is woods and heathy pastures. The habit 

 is soon prostrate. The stem is nearly smooth. 

 The prickles are rather few, very slender. The 

 leaves are 3-lobed. The leaflets are shining, with 

 close, fine-pointed teeth. The panicle is cylin- 

 drical, forming a corymb-like raceme, the rachis 

 wavy, with unequal, partly sunk, stalked glands, 

 and very slender bent-down prickles. 



Riibus longithyrsiger, Bab. — The habitat of this 

 plant is woods, damp, hilly, and shady places. 

 The habit is prostrate. The prickles are short. 

 The leaves are usually 3-lobed. The leaflets are 

 more or less equal, nearly uniform, with shallow, 

 even teeth, the terminal one inversely egg-shaped, 

 with a blunt point. The panicle is pyrainidal, 

 forming a raceme above, the flower-stalk and 

 rachis rigid, purple, with dense, short-stalked 

 glands, with grey felt, and short hairs. 



Rubus botryeros, Focke. — The habitat of this 

 plant is sunny spots. The stem is bluish-green, 

 with scattered, unequal, numerous prickles and 

 acicles. The leaves are frequently 4-5-lobed. The 

 leaflets are blunt, with a short point, narrowed at 

 the base. The panicle is less rigid, usually more 

 compound and interrupted than in the last, with 

 larger flowers, less rigid flower-stalk, and hairy 

 carpels. The plant resembles R. lorigithyrsiger 

 and R. oigocladns. 



Riibus foliosns, Wh. & N.— The habitat of this 

 plant is damp woods and bushy places. The 

 habit is arching, prostrate, climbing, in thickets. 

 The prickles are numerous, weak, and subequal. 

 The leaves are mainly 3-lobed. The leaflets are 

 nearly uniform, unequally toothed, paler and 

 downy below, broadest near the middle, with an 

 ashy felt below, the terminal broader near the 

 middle, gradually narrow-pointed, narrowed to 

 the entire or notched base. The panicle is long 

 and narrow, with wavy rachis, with numerous 

 short, few-flowered, tufted branches above, and 

 several egg-shaped leaves with a long, narrow 



point. The upper Ic.ives have a white fell below. 

 The sepals are egg-shaped, narrow, aciculale, 

 with bristles. The plant flowers in July and 

 August, and is a deciduous shrub, often covering 

 the ground in a wood for long distances. 



Rubus rosaceus, Wh. & N. — The habitat of 

 this plant is cleared spots in woods, and wood 

 borders, woods, and hedges. The habit is arching, 

 prostrate. The large prickles are nearly equal, 

 chiefly on the angles, strong but rather short, the 

 short ones slightly exceeding the nearly equal 

 aciculi, seta;, and hairs. The stem is round, 

 downy or nearly smooth. The leaves are chiefly 

 3-lobed. The leaflets arc broad, hairy on the 

 nerves beneath, the lateral ones expanded. The 

 terminal one is round. The panicle is broad and 

 spreading, nearly pyramidal, blunt, very glan- 

 dular and prickly. The petals are bright-pink, 

 and the plant is a very handsome species. The 

 plant flowers in July and August, and is a de- 

 ciduous shrub. 



Rubus horridicaulis, P. J. Muell. (= R.saxicolus, 

 P. J. Muell.). — The habitat of this species is woods 

 and lanes. The stem is stout, blunt-angled, 

 bluish-green, brown, smooth. The large prickles 

 are unequal, scattered, sickle-like, or bent down. 

 The leaves are 3-5-lobed, large, with uneven 

 toothing, green, harsh below. The leaflets are 

 equal, the terminal subrotund, with a blunt point. 

 The panicle is broad, pyramidal, nearly cylin- 

 drical, the rachis is very prickly, with mixed 

 armature, the sepals are triangular, clasping the 

 hairy fruit. The petals are pink or white. 



Rubus hostilis, Muell. &. Wirtg.— The habitat of 

 this species is woods, bushy, heathy ground. The 

 habit is prostrate. The stem is bluntly angled. 

 The leaves are 5-lobed. The leaflets are rather 

 thin, narrow, with very long points, the terminal 

 one with long, narrow point, with a narrow, 

 entire, or notched base, with irregular partly- 

 compoimd teeth. The panicle is short, forming a 

 mceme or corymb above, loose, with all the 

 branches ascending. The sepals arc strongly 

 turned back. The petals are small and narrow. 

 The plant resembles R. echinatus in the strongly 

 turned-back sepals, deeplj'-cut leaves, but differs 

 ii. the armature and thin, narrow, green leaflets. 



Rubus fuscoater, Weihe. — The habitat of this 

 species is bushy places. The habit is nearly 

 prostrate. The stem is stout and very hairy, dull 

 purplish-brown. The prickles are very unequal, 

 from a long, broad base. The leaves are moderate. 

 The leaflets are thick, roundish, egg-shaped, with 

 a fine point, with fine-pointed, compound, not 

 deeply cut teeth, soft beneath, with grey-green 

 felt and short hair. The armature is very strong. 

 The petals are bright-red, the sepals in fruit erect 

 or widespreading. The plant is dark and shaggy, 

 and intermediate between R. pyramiiialis and R. 

 Marshalli or R. hystrix. 



Rubus Koclilcri, Wh. & N.— The habitat of this 

 species is woods, thickets, bushy places, and 

 hedges. The habit is arching-, prostrate. The 

 stem has crowded, unequal, scattered prickles, 

 acicles, bristles, and stalked glands, even, the 



