172 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sup-Sprecies XI.—Rubus thyrsoideus. Wimm. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 100. 
Barren stem arching-erect, angular, furrowed, sub-glabrous ; 
prickles rather strong, spreading or declining, from a large slightly 
compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem quinate; leaflets sub- 
coriaceous, flat, glabrous above, grey-felted beneath, with longer 
scattered hairs amongst the felt; sharply irregularly or doubly 
serrate; terminal leafiet rhomboidal-oval, acuminated. Flowers 
in a long narrow panicle, with the lateral branches spreading, 
corymbose, the lower ones but slightly elongated, ascending, and 
corymbose; rachis and peduncles felted, with numerous longer 
hairs amongst the felt, and with strong hooked prickles. Sepals 
felted with longer hairs amongst the felt. Petals white. 
In hedges and thickets, sparingly but widely distributed 
throughout England. 
England. 
This form resembles the last, but has the leaflets attenuated at 
the apex, not pure white beneath, and with all the felted parts 
interspersed with longer hairs. The flowers also are white instead 
of pink. 
Professor Babington considers R. macroanthus (Bloxam) as a 
large-flowered form of R. thyrsoideus. 
Thyrsus-flowered Bramble. 
Sus-Group [II.—SYLVATICI. Bad. 
Barren stem with spreading woolly hairs, often dense, and fre- 
quently deciduous. Prickles moderately strong, mostly uniform. 
Leaves generally green, more rarely white-felted beneath. 
Sus-Specres XII.—Rubus leucostachys. Sm. 
Puate CCCCXLVIII. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 100. 
Barren stem prostrate-arching, angular, densely clothed with 
woolly hairs; prickles numerous, spreading or slightly deflexed, 
from a slightly dilated much-compressed base. Leaves of the 
barren stem quinate; leaflets subcoriaceous, flat, glabrous and 
slightly shining above, and greyish-felted beneath, with longer hairs 
interspersed, stiffly-hairy on the veins, finely and irregularly den- 
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