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than in any of the preceding. . The panicle is narrower and more 
crowded; the leafiets irregularly toothed and.as broad as in the 
broadest forms of R. rhamnifolius, from which it further differs, 
according to descriptions, by having the edges of the leaves in- 
curved. 
Incurved-leaved Bramble. 
Sus-Srecires VIII.—Rubus imbricatus. Hort. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 89. 
Barren stem arching-prostrate, angular; prickles confined to 
the angles of the stem, small, declining, from along compressed base. 
Leaves of the barren stem quinate; leaflets coriaceous, ‘‘ convex,” 
opaque and nearly glabrous above, paler and with scattered hairs 
beneath; terminal leaflet broadly ovate or roundish, cordate, 
cuspidate; basal leaflets overlapping the intermediate, and the 
intermediate the terminal one. Flowers in a slender lax panicle 
with elongate racemose branches; rachis and pedicels slightly 
pubescent and sparingly prickly. 
In open places in woods by the banks of the Wye below Mon- 
mouth, in the counties of Gloucester and Monmouth. 
England. Shrub. Summer. 
I have seen this plant only in a dried state in Mr. Borrer’s 
herbarium at Kew. 
Imbricated-leaved Bramble. 
Sup-Species IX.—Rubus latifolius. Bab. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 99. 
‘** Barren stem arcuate-prostrate angular, furrowed; prickles 
small, slender, compressed, slightly declining from a very long 
compressed base. Leaves quinate, leaflets thin, pilose on both 
sides, coarsely and doubly dentate, not felted beneath ; terminal 
leaflet cordate-acuminate ; basal leaflets sessile, imbricate; panicle 
short, leafy, hairy, with ascending few-flowered corymbose branches, 
its top and pedicels felted and hairy, its prickles slender, declining.”’ 
—(Bab. Man., /.c.) 
Open woods and hedges. Cramond Bridge and Collinton near 
Edinburgh, Falls of Acharn, Perthshire, and Monmouth. 
England, Scotland. Shrub. Summer. 
Of this I have seen no specimens. 
Broad-leaved Bramble. 
