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leaflets subsessile, roundish-ovate, the basal ones overlapping the 
terminal ones, irregularly serrate, hoary-white beneath, those at 
the base of the panicle often roundish-cordate and simple. Sti- 
pules adnate for two-thirds of their length. Flowers terminating 
the lateral branches and the main stem, in small corymbose cymes. 
Sepals triangular-lanceolate, cuspidate. Petals strapshaped-oblan- 
ceolate, erect. Fruit (?) “ small, bright-crimson when ripe.” — 
(Lees, J. ¢.) 
In stony sub-alpine woods. Rare. Ilford Bridges, near Bren- 
don, Devon, where it was found by Mr. Lees; Dunster, Somerset, 
by the Rev. W. H. Colman and Professor Babington. 
England. Perennial. Summer. 
Avery remarkable plant, which I have only seen growing in 
the Cambridge Botanical Gardens, and there in habit it is exactly 
intermediate between the Raspberry and the Brambles. The habit 
in dried specimens is much nearer the Raspberry, with which it also 
agrees better in its technical characters; but the prickles have a 
less dilated base, the leaflets are much rounder and with the central 
leaflet rarely stalked, as is commonly the case with R. Idzeus. The 
floral leaves resemble the ordinary leaves of R. Chamzemorus, while 
the barren stem is exceedingly similar to that of the fruticose Rubi. 
It may be a hybrid form, but I cannot think it probable that the 
species is a variety of R. Ideeus. Mr. Lees states that he has only 
once found the fruit, and that the petals are often multiplied to 12 
or 16. Professor Babington informs me that he has seen on garden 
plants of R. Leesi fine drupes, but without seeds in them. 
Lees’ Raspberry. 
_SPECIES V.—R U BUS FRUTICOSUS.* Linn. 
Puatets CCCCXLIV. to CCCCLVI. 
Rootstock slightly or scarcely stoloniferous. Stems shrubby, 
biennial, usually arching during the first year, when they are 
barren, frequently rooting at the extremity late in the season, 
and flowering the second summer; prickles comparatively large 
and strong. Leaves stalked, digitate with 5 or 7 leaflets, or ternate, 
* Ihave placed the fruticose Brambles under a single super-species, because, although 
the extreme forms are widely different, they are so completely connected by intermediate 
ones, that I find it utterly impossible to separate them into any groups answering to 
the usual idea of a species. Professor Babington’s long and attentive study of this 
genus entitles him to be considered as the leading authority in Britain upon this sub- 
