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difficult to penetrate, like numerous croquet hoops (but larger) set here 
and there, crossing each other in all directions. Those who have tried 
to find a grasshopper warbler’s nest know what I mean. 
This Blackberry has the shrub habit. The stem is prickly, arching, 
prostrate. It may be hairless, bluish-green, or have prickles, bristles, 
and gland-tipped hairs. There are no suckers, the stem is round or 
angular. The barren stems are more or less erect, or arch and root 
from a point near the extremity, giving rise to fresh plants. The 
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Photo. R. L. J. Horn 
down is closely appressed. The prickles are equal, and are bent 
downwards, with an enlarged, flattened base. The leaves are ternate 
or quinate, with 3 or 5 leaflets. They are hairless, with fine hard felt 
below, with the margins bent downwards. The leaflets are leathery, 
convex, rough, stalked, overlapping or not, inversely egg-shaped, 
rhomboid, coarsely irregularly toothed, dark-green above, paler below 
(hence discolor). The terminal leaflet is inversely egg-shaped, blunt- 
pointed. 
The flowers are pink or white, in terminal racemes, with corymb- 
like or long lateral branches. The panicle is long, narrow. The 
petals are pink. The calyx is finely woolly-felted. The anther-stalks 
and styles are purple, the stamens longer than the styles. The 
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