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short, nearly equal. Leaves ternate, rarely quinate; leaflets rather 
thin, green on both sides, sub-glabrous above, hairy on the veins 
beneath, finely and unequally serrate; terminal leaflet oblong- 
oval, oval, or obovate-oval, sub-cordate at the base, cuspidate- 
acuminate. Flowers in a short rather compact leafy panicle, sub- 
racemose towards the apex; upper branches short, spreading, 
mostly simple, lower ones sub-racemose ; rachis flexuous, felted, with 
longer rather-stiff hairs, very numerous gland-tipped sete, aciculi, 
and a few slender declining prickles. Sepals ovate-triangular, with 
gland-tipped sete and aciculi, spreading or loosely applied to the 
fruit. 
a, Rk. Bellardi. Weihe. 
Leaves mostly ternate, with the leaflets nearly equal, the lateral 
ones divaricate, finely and bluntly serrate, almost crenate-serrate 
with an apiculus to each crenature; panicle short, rachis very 
flexuous, ahd the lower branches of the panicle distant. R. den- 
tatus, Blox., is a form of this, with the stem more angular, the 
leaflets greyish beneath, acuminate-cuspidate, sub-cordate at the 
base. Hairs on the whole plant shorter and less numerous than 
in . 
B, R. hirtus. Waldst. & Kit. LR. fuscus. Lees (not Weihe). 
Leaves mostly quinate, coarsely and unequally dentate-serrate ; 
hairs longer and more numerous than in a. Panicle often elongated, 
with the rachis only slightly flexuous. R. rotundifolius, Blox., 
has the stem slightly angular, the leaves often ternate, the leaflets 
much broader, less sharply serrate and sub-cuspidate. 
In woods and hedges. Not common, the form R. hirtus being 
apparently the most abundant. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
The typical forms Bellardi and hirtus or fuscus, are so different 
that they could scarcely be combined, were it not for the inter- 
mediates which link them together. 
Glandular-stemmed Bramble. 
Group V.—CASII. Bab. 
Barren stem arching- prostrate or prostrate, roundish or 
obtusely angled, generally with a glaucous bloom; prickles unequal ; 
aciculi and gland-tipped setze few or none. 
