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basal leaflets sub-sessile; lateral leaflets of the flowering-shoot 
narrowed towards the base. Flowers in a nearly simple raceme, 
or a panicle with corymbose branches; rachis and pedicels 
sparingly pilose. Fruit dark red, with the sepals reflexed. 
In boggy woods. Reported as common in Scotland and the 
West of England; more rare in the South, and not recorded from 
the eastern counties. This appears to be the only fruticose 
bramble that reaches as far North as Orkney; but as R. sub- 
erectus and R. fissus are not generally distinguished, much doubt 
rests on the distribution inferred from the localities given for 
Ri. suberectus. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
Stems 2 to 8 feet high, at first erect, but trailing when weak, 
in which case, when it flowers the second year it produces numerous 
short fastigiate branches from the axils of the old leaves, as 
remarked by Mr. Lees in “ Phytologist’ for 1853, p. 929. Leaves 
rather flexible, green, rarely ternate except in the flowering-shoots. 
Fruit small, lurid red in all the fresh examples I have seen, but, 
according to Mr. Lees, becoming at length *‘ raven-black.” 
Sub-erect Branoble. 
Sus-Srecies I1.—Rubus fissus. Lindley. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 97. 
Barren stem erect or sub-erect, not rooting at the apex, 
angular with the angles obtuse, smooth; prickles not confined to 
the angles of the stem, numerous, small, straight, from a large 
oblong compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem quinate, or 
accidentally pinnate (from the central leaflet being divided into 8), 
“with coriaceous plicate leaflets” (Bab.), rather finely serrate ; 
terminal leaflet ovate, cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex ; 
basal leaflet sessile; lateral leaflets of the flowering-shoot narrowed 
towards the base, “often gibbous at the base” (Bab.). Flowers in 
a simple raceme, or a panicle with corymbose branches; rachis 
and peduncles sparingly pilose. Fruit dark red, with the sepals 
*“ erect-patent”’ (Bab.). 
On boggy heaths. Apparently not uncommon ; for although 
in the “Manual” Professor Babington apparently restricts the 
name R. fissus to the plants found at Almond Park and West 
Felton, Salop, and Londonderry, Ireland, yet in the Kew Herbarium 
he applies that name to others from Argyleshire, Cumberland, 
