ROSACE.E. 181 
In woods. Rather rare; principally in the south and west mid- 
land counties. 
England. Shrub. Summer. 
A large coarse plant with a very compound panicle, sometimes 
2 or 3 feet long, and leafy nearly to the summit. Stem with very 
numerous stout rather short prickles. 
Bloxam’s Bramble. 
Sus-Species XXII.—Rubus Hystrix. Weihe. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 103. 
Stem arching-prostrate, bluntly angular, stiffly-hairy; prickles 
very numerous, unequal, small, straight, somewhat spreading, from 
a rather small much compressed base; aciculi and gland-tipped 
setze numerous. Leaves quinate or ternate; leaflets sub-coriaceous, 
green on both sides, sparingly hairy above, densely so beneath, 
especially on the veins, sharply and irregularly or doubly serrate 
or dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet broadly oval or obovate-oval, 
rounded at the base, acuminate-cuspidate. Flowers in a long leafy 
panicle with the branches short, spreading or the lower ones ascend- 
ing, corymbose ; rachis densely pubescent and stiflly-hairy, with very 
numerous unequal gland-tipped setze and aciculi, and numerous 
unequal slender subulate somewhat spreading or declining prickles. 
Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, “loosely adpressed to the fruit.”— 
(Bab.) 
In hedges and thickets. Not uncommon in England. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
Hedgehog Bramble. 
Sup-Species XXIII.—Rubus rosaceus. Weihe. 
Lab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 104. 
Barren stem arching-prostrate, angular, hairy; prickles very 
unequal, rather small,straight, slightly declining, from a rather long 
compressed base ; aciculi and gland-tipped setae numerous. Leaves 
quinate or ternate; leaflets rather thin, green on both sides, spar- 
ingly pilose above, densely so on the veins beneath, unequally and 
sharply serrate ; terminal leaflet oval or oval-obovate, sub-cordate 
at the base, acuminate-cuspidate. Flowers in a leafy sub-pyramidal 
truncate panicle, with the upper branches spreading, simple or 
corymbose, the lower ascending and sometimes racemose ; rachis 
