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rounded or narrowed at the base, and rather long-stalked, the 
lateral leaflets shortly stalked: the plants formerly named R. 
plicatus, which have cordate leaflets, he appears now to refer to 
R. fissus. 
Plaited-leaved Bramble. 
Suzn-Srecirs 1V.—Rubus affinis. Weihe & Nees. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 98. 
Barren stem sub-erect, or arching but not rooting at the apex, 
angular with the angles somewhat rounded, smooth; prickles 
confined to the angles of the stem, very strong, hooked or declining 
from a large compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem quinate 
with the leaflets sub-coriaceous, “wavy towards the end” (Bab.), 
opaque above, pale green and softly and densely pubescent beneath, 
finely, acutely, and irregularly dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet oval, 
acuminate, rounded at the base; basal leaflets stalked; lateral 
leaflets of the flowering-shoot often narrowed towards the base. 
Flowers in a compound panicle, with the lateral branches as- 
cending, often elongated, corymbose; rachis and peduncles pilose. 
Fruit black when ripe, with the sepals spreading or reflexed. 
On heaths and in open woods. Not uncommon and pretty 
generally distributed, being found, according to Professor Babington 
in “Cybele Britannica,” Vol. III., from Sussex to Perth and 
Argyle. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
This species forms the connecting link between the Suberecti 
and the Rhamnifolii, between which it is intermediate in habit. 
It is a larger and stronger plant than R. plicatus, and with the 
leaves much more softly pubescent beneath. The fruit is con- 
siderably larger, with the sepals at first reflexed, but afterwards 
rising until they are spreading, or spreading-ascending. 
Professor Babington considers R. lentiginosus of Lees (Phyt. 
1858, p. 927), which has narrower more glabrous sharply cut 
leaflets and smaller petals, as a form of the above. 
Intermediate Bramble. 
Grove II.—RHAMNIFOLIT. Bad. 
Barren stems arching and rooting at the end, slightly pilose 
with rather distant hairs, not felted nor glaucous, and destitute 
of gland-tipped sete; prickles nearly uniform. Sepals felted, con- 
colorous. 
