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tate-serrate ; terminal leaflet roundish or broadly obovate-cuspidate. 
Flowers in an elongate panicle with very short few-flowered 
spreading lateral branches; rachis and pedicels felted and densely 
stiflly-hairy, having long slender spreading or slightly declining 
prickles and a few aciculi and gland-tipped sete. Sepals felted 
and stiffly-hairy. 
Qa. 
Prickles uniform, confined to the angles ofthe stem. Terminal 
leaflet rounded or slightly narrowed towards the base. 
B, R. vestitus. Weihe. 
Prickles unequal, scattered; leaflets roundish, cordate. 
In hedges and thickets. Not uncommon, and generally distri- 
buted in England. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A well-marked form, easily known from the two preceding by 
its densely hairy stem and much broader leaflets, and by having 
the felt intermixed with numerous stiff hairs, which are especially 
abundant on the veins of the leaves beneath and on the branches 
of the panicle. 
Long-clustered Bramble. 
Sus-Srectes XIII.—Rubus Grabowskii. Weihe. 
Puate CCCCXLIX. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 100. 
R. carpinifolius, Borrer in E. B. 8S. No. 2664. 
Barren stem arching, angular, sub-glabrous ; prickles numerous, 
rather strong, deflexed, from a large slightly compressed base, 
Leaves of the barren stem quinate; leaflets sub-coriaceous, plicate, 
glabrous and opaque above, grey-felted beneath, with longer 
hairs interspersed, pilose on the veins, finely and irregularly denti- 
culate; terminal leaflet roundish or transversely ovate, cordate at 
the base, abruptly cuspidate. Flowers in an elongate leafy 
panicle, with short ascending branches, the upper ones corymbose, 
the lower sub-racemose; rachis with scattered hairs, pedicels 
densely felted and pilose, having very numerous long, slender, 
slightly-declining prickles. Sepals felted and pilose. 
In hedges and thickets. Rare. At Cadeby, Leicestershire. The 
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