ROSACEA. Tit 
Group III.—VILLICAULES. Bab. 
Barren stems arching and rooting at the end, generally pilose, 
often felted, and having sub-sessile glands rarely with a few gland- 
tipped sete; prickles confined to the angles of the stem, nearly 
uniform, or with a few smaller ones between the rows. 
Sus-Grour I.—DISCOLORES. Bad. 
Stem with short copious pubescence ; prickles strong, uniform. 
Leaves when mature white beneath with felted pubescence. 
Sus-Sprecies X.—Rubus discolor. Weihe & Nees. 
Puate CCCCXLVII. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 99. 
R. fruticosus, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 715. 
Stem arching, angular, furrowed, more or less thickly clothed 
with short white scattered stellate pubescence; prickles strong, 
declining, from a large slightly compressed base. Leaves of the 
barren stem quinate; leaflets coriaceous, often deflexed at the 
margins, glabrous and slightly shining above, white beneath, with 
very compact short close felt, irregularly or doubly serrate; ter- 
minal leaflet oblong-obovate, cuspidate ; basal leaflets stalked, not 
overlapping, sometimes joined to the intermediate ones. Flowers 
in a long narrow panicle with the lateral branches short, spreading 
corymbose, the lower ones often elongate, ascending, and racemose ; 
rachis and pedicels densely white-felted, and with strong hooked 
prickles. Calyx entirely white-felted. Petals pink. 
In hedges and thickets. Very common, and generally distributed 
in England; apparently rare in Scotland, except in the southern 
counties. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A well-marked and handsome form readily distinguishable by 
the leaflets being pure white underneath, and with the edges 
generally deflexed, and by its large pink flowers. 
This is one of the commonest, if not the commonest, bramble in 
England, but I do not remember seeing it in Scotland except in 
Dumfriesshire and Kirkeudbright. 
