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branches are somewhat spreading ; lower branches frequently 
remote, elongated, and corymbose; rachis and pedicels finely 
felted or pubescent, with short hairs and a few gland-tipped sete, 
usually confined to the uppermost branches; prickles few, unequal, 
slender, subulate. Sepals ovate, abruptly acuminate, mostly 
without gland-tipped sete, reflexed from the fruit, which is black. 
a, LR. sublustris. Lees. 
Barren stem nearly round, green, tinged with red; prickles 
slender, mostly spreading, from a short base; leaflets felted, greyish- 
green beneath. achis nearly straight, with few prickles. 
B, conjungens. Bab. R. Wahlbergii. Bell Salt. 
Stem round at the base, angular above, green tinged with red ; 
prickles strong, slender, somewhat spreading, from a rather long 
base. Leaflets densely pubescent or ashy-felted beneath. Rachis 
nearly straight, with few prickles. 
y, purpureus. Bab. R. Wahlbergii. Arrh. 
Stem angular, purple, often slightly hairy; prickles strong, 
spreading or slightly deflexed, from a rather long base. Leaflets 
pubescent or white-felted beneath. Rachis slightly flexuous, with 
numerous rather strong prickles. 
In hedges and thickets. Very common, and generally dis- 
tributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A large plant, varying considerably, but having a peculiar look, 
which, though difficult to describe, when once known is easily 
recognized. ‘This sub-species flowers earlier than most of the 
Rubi, except R. czesius. The flowers are large, white or pink. 
Hazel-leaved Bramble. 
Suz-Sprcies XXXIX.—Rubus altheifolius. ost. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 109, & Fl. Camb. p. 305. 
R. Wahlbergii 3 glabratus, Bell Salt., in Bot. Gaz. Vol. IT. p. 129. 
Barren stem prostrate, roundish, with scattered hairs ; prickles 
numerous, unequal, slender, straight or slightly hooked, from a 
rather short compressed base; gland-tipped sete few. Leaves 
of the barren stem ternate, with the lateral leaflets of the lower 
leaves retrorsely 2-partite, rarely quinate; leaflets thin, green on 
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