160 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
from the receptacle, consisting of a few large juicy drupes with a 
very tender skin, shining red when ripe. 
Among rocky débris in woods, and by the sides of streams in 
hilly countries. Local, but occurring where the conditions for its 
erowth are found, from Glamorganshire, Gloucestershire, and Derby- 
shire, to Orkney and Shetland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock woody, shortly creeping, much branched. Flowering- 
stems angular, produced from the rootstock, 6 to 18 inches long, 
the barren shoots (when present) from the base of the flowering- 
stems; the former erect or decumbent, sometimes 2 or 3 feet, and 
quite prostrate. Leaves few; leaflets 1 to 3 inches long, plicate, 
variable in shape and in the dentition of the margins; the central ° 
leaflet stalked. Stipules very slightly adnate. Flowers erect, $ inch 
across, white, in a very compact corymb, more rarely with a few 
branches beneath it so as to resemble a panicle. Calyx-segments 
triangular-lanceolate. Fruit claret-colour, about 3 inch long, 
consisting of seldom more than 8 or 4 drupes, containing large 
pitted reticulated stones. Sepals reflexed in fruit. Plant pale- 
ereen, underside of the leaves a little paler. Stems, petioles, 
pedicels, and veins of the leaves clothed with short scattered 
woolly hairs. Prickles straight, patent or slightly declining, from 
a small compressed base. 
Stone Bramble, Roebuck-berry. 
French, Ronce des Rochers. | German, Felsen Brombeere. 
This plant resembles the strawberry more than the raspberry. The fruit is very 
small, but has a pleasant flavour when mixed with sugar to subdue its acidity. In 
Russia the berries are fermented with honey, and made into a strong spirit. 
The Stone Bramble is the badge of the Highland McNabs. 
SPECIES IIL—RUBUS IDAUS. Linn. 
Pirate CCCCXLILI. 
Rootstock stoloniferous. Stem biennial, erect, round, pruinose, 
prickly ; prickles’ very small and weak, those of the flowering-shoot 
deflexed from a compressed and elongated base. Leaves pinnate, 
with 2 pairs of leaflets, or ternate; leaflets ovate or oval, acuminate, 
irregularly and sharply serrated, hoary-white beneath. Stipules 
adnate. Flowers terminating the lateral branches and the main 
stem, in small corymbose cymes. Sepals roundish-ovate, acuminate, 
and cuspidate. Petals strapshaped-oblanceolate, erect. Fruit sepa- 
rable from the receptacle when ripe, consisting of numerous small 
