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and slender prickles, than in the allied species; panicle rather 
small, frequently simple ; petals broad. 
Trailing Bramble. 
Sus-Sprcies XXXV.—Rubus foliosus. Weihe. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 108. 
R. hirtus, var. y, Bab. olim. 
Barren stem arching-prostrate, slightly angular, sparingly 
hairy; prickles rather numerous and slender, slightly hooked or 
deflexed, from a rather long much compressed base; aciculi and 
gland-tipped sete few, unequal. Leaves pedate-quinate; leaflets 
sub-coriaceous, green on both sides, opaque and sparingly pilose 
above, paler and densely pubescent or felted beneath, where 
they are stiffly-hairy on the veins, finely irregularly denticulate- 
serrate ; terminal leaflet roundish-ovate, cordate, cuspidate-acumi- 
nate. Flowers in a long very leafy narrow compact panicle, with 
short spreading-ascending branches; the upper ones simple or 
corymbose, the lower sub-racemose ; rachis thick, slightly flexuous 
and as well as the pedicels very densely stiffly-hairy, the hairs inter- 
mixed with rather numerous aciculi, gland-tipped setze, and slender 
spreading or declining prickles. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, stiffly-hairy, with gland-tipped sete and aciculi, loosely 
reflexed from the fruit. 
On heaths and in woods. Rare, and apparently confined to 
Warwickshire. 
England. Shrub. Summer. 
Of this form, the only specimens I have seen are some kindly 
given me by the Rey. A. Bloxam, from Annesley coalfield Heath, 
near Atherstone. The panicle leafy up to the top and the very 
thick rachis give the plant a very peculiar aspect. Professor 
Babington considers it closely allied to R. humifusus, but the stem 
is much less thickly clothed with hairs, gland-tipped setze, aciculi, 
and prickles. 
Leafy-flowered Bramble. 
Suns-Sreciers XXXVI.—Rubus glandulosus. Bellard. 
Puate CCCCLIV. 
Bab. Man, Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 108. 
Barren stem arching-prostrate, nearly round, very hairy; 
prickles unequal, small, weak, slightly hooked or declining, from 
a small compressed base; gland-tipped setee and aciculi numerous, 
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