CLASS XII. ORDER III.] RUBUS. 721 



on Mount Ida, in Crete, from which place it is said to have derived its 

 specific name. By cultivation several varieties are obtained, the fruit 

 varying in colour from scarlet lo yellow and white. When ripe it is 

 highly esteemed, being agreeable to most persons, and it is one of our 

 most unobjectionable fruits as a dessert; when boiled into a confection 

 with sugar/it is one of the most useful and esteemed, and is in various 

 ways formed into sweetmeats. 



2. Leaves digitate, or pedate. 



* Stem woody, 

 a. Nearly erect ^ not rooting. 



2. R. suberec'tus, Anderson. (Fig. 816.) Upright Bramble. Stem 

 nearly erect ; prickles uniform, slightly hooked, slender, few ; leaves 

 digitate, quinate; leaflets thin, pale green, and hairy beneath, the 

 lower pair nearly sessile ; raceme simple, corymbose. 



English Botany, t. 2572.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 407.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 246. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 92. 



Stem from three to four feet high, nearly upright, or only slightly 

 curved above, obtusely angular, smooth, or scattered over with a few 

 hairs, and small inconspicuous glands, green, and more or less deeply 

 tinged when grown in exposed situations, with a purplish red. 

 Prickles scattered, small, slender, deflexed, scarcely hooked, dilated at 

 the base. Leaves with the common footstalk stout, hairy, and deeply 

 channeled above, bearing near its base a pair of linear lanceolate 

 stipules. Leajiets five, disposed in a digitate manner, the lateral ones 

 sessile, or nearly so, ovate, with an acute or rounded point, the terminal 

 one with a short stalk, larger than the others, ovate, or nearly so, the 

 margins irregularly serrated, occasionally somewhat lobed, a shining 

 green above, paler and downy beneath, with prominent lateral veins 

 and a stout mid-rib, which, like the common footstalk, is frequently 

 scattered over with pale slender prickles. Flowers in a terminal simple 

 corymbose raceme, rarely branched in a paniculated manner, the 

 pedicles spreading, or ascending, round, hairy, and having at the base 

 a narrow linear leafy bractea, simple, sometimes cut. Calyx with 

 green ovate long taper or acute and short pointed segments, downy, 

 white and woolly within, and on the margin. Petals while, obovate, 

 crumpled, spreading. Fruit rather small, a bright red. 



Habitat. — Damp situations by the side of streams, bogs, &c. ; in 

 mountainous situations in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Shrub ; flowering from June to August. 



3. R. plica' tus, Weihe and Nees. (Fig. 817.) Plaited-leaved Bramble. 

 " Stem not rooting, nearly erect, obsolelely angular, smooth, with 

 small somewhat curved uniform prickles; leaves digitate, of five 

 stalked cordato-ovate pointed plicate leaflets, paler green beneath ; 

 panicle prickly, nearly simple, corymbose ; calyx slightly reflexed." 



Borr. in English Botany, Supp. t. 2714.— Hooker, British Flora, 

 ed. 4. vol. i. p. 203. — R. suberectns, /3.— Hook. Brit. Flora, ed. 3. vol. 



