192 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sus-Sprecres XXXVIL—Rubus Balfourianus. Blox. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 108. 
Barren stem arching-prostrate, round, sparingly hairy; prickles 
few, unequal, slender, straight, spreading, from a rather short 
slightly compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem mostly 
quinate; leaflets thin, green on both sides, rugose and sparingly 
pilose above, pubescent but not felted beneath, finely and irregu- 
larly dentate-serrate; terminal leaflet rhomboidal-ovate, rounded 
or sub-cordate at the base, shortly acuminate or cuspidate-acumi- 
nate; lateral leaflets sub-sessile, imbricated. Flowers in a lax 
leafy sub-corymbose panicle, the upper branches short and nearly 
simple, the lower longer and corymbose or racemo-corymbose ; 
rachis and pedicels felted, with long woolly hairs intermixed, 
and numerous short unequal gland-tipped sete, a few aciculi, 
and small slender slightly declining prickles. Sepals ovate- 
acuminate, with gland-tipped setze, erect-spreading. Styles pale 
flesh-coloured. ; 
In hedges. Probably not uncommon, as it occurs from Hants 
to York. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A very variable form, approaching in some of its states to 
R. corylifolius, in others to R. czesius, but generally a very luxuriant 
plant, with large leaves, paler beneath. Petals pale pink; fruit of 
rather numerous drupes. 
Balfour's Bramble. 
Sus-Species XX XVIII.—Rubus corylifolius. Sm. 
Prate CCCCLYV. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot, ed. v. p. 109. 
Barren stem arching-prostrate, round or bluntly angular, nearly 
glabrous, slightly glaucous ; prickles rather few, short, straight, 
spreading or slightly declining, from a rather short slightly-com- 
pressed base. Leaves of the barren stem mostly quinate, if ternate, 
with the lateral leaflets 2-partite or -cleft; leaflets thin, green on both 
sides, rugose and sparingly pilose above, paler and densely pubes- 
cent or felted beneath, acutely and irregularly or doubly dentate- 
serrate; terminal leaflet roundish-ovate, sub-cordate at the base, 
abruptly acuminate; lateral leaflets sub-sessile, imbricated. Flowers 
in a lax rather short panicle, sub-corymbose at the apex, where the 
