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from a long compressed base; setee and aciculi few and short. 
Leaves of the barren stem ternate or quinate; leaflets thin, green 
on both sides, sparingly pilose above and on the veins beneath, 
doubly dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet oval, sub-cordate, acu- 
minate. Flowers in a large pyramidal blunt-topped panicle with 
corymbose branches, the upper spreading, the lower ascending ; 
rachis and pedicels densely stiffly-hairy, with very numerous gland- 
tipped setze, aciculi, and a few unequal subulate declining prickles 
from long bases. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, reflexed from the fruit. 
In open woods. Apparently rare, but occurring from Hants 
and Somerset to Carnarvon and Leicester. 
England. Shrub. Summer. 
A large state of this plant is the R. Babingtonii, Bel/ Salter. 
Rough Bramble. 
Sup-Srecies XXVI.—Rubus rudis. Weihe. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 105. 
Barren stem arching, angular, sparingly pilose; prickles nume- 
rous, nearly equal, strong, straight or slightly hooked, somewhat 
spreading or slightly declining from a rather small compressed 
base; aciculi and setze rather few and short. ‘Leaves of the barren 
stem quinate; leaflets sub-coriaceous, green and roughened with 
small points above, greenish-white-felted beneath with longer 
hairs amongst the felt on the veins, doubly and irregularly den- 
tate-serrate or slightly lobed-serrate ; terminal leaflet roundish-oval, 
oval, or rhomboidal-oval, rounded or sub-cordate at the base, longly 
acuminate or acuminate-cuspidate. Flowers in a long leafy panicle, 
with the upper branches spreading and corymbose, the lower ones 
ascending and sub-racemose; rachis and pedicels felted, stiffly- 
hairy, with rather numerous unequal gland-tipped setx, and 
unequal declining or deflexed prickles from long bases. Sepals 
ovate-cuspidate. 
In hedges and thickets. Common, and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A variable form, with the leaflets often much cut, the felt 
beneath varying from green to nearly white. The Rey. A. Bloxam 
finds a curious small-leaved variety, microphyllus, with the terminal 
leaflet rhomboid-ovate, cuspidate, finely and acutely doubly serrate. 
Coarse Bramble. 
