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RUBUS. 



leaflets all stalked, rather rigid, glossy-green, uneven and folded, very 

 sparingly hairy on the upper surface, more so underneath and paler, 

 with the nervures of a reddish tint, and the midrib armed with hooked 

 prickles, the margins unequally serrated ; the terminal leaflet cordate 

 obliquely acuminate and much similar to that of the Lime-tree : sti- 

 pules narrow linear-lanceolate, hairy. — The fertile stem is always 

 glabrous, less distinctly angular, and with fewer prickles, which are 

 straight and deflexed ; the flowering branches glabrous or somewhat 

 hairy, and armed with curved prickles ; leaves ternate, the lateral 

 leaflets almost sessile and overlapping ; panicle leafy, its branchlets 

 spreading and rigid ; peduncles hairy, with or without a few sessile 

 glands ; flowers rose-coloured and of medium size ; the sepals broadly 

 ovate with or without a leafy point, and with a white tomentose margin, 

 spreading after the fall of the petals. — So far as our Flora is concerned, 

 this appears to be a very distinct species, which I have only met with 

 in the station indicated. The specific character assigned to R. plicatus 

 would suit it well, and I have a specimen so named by Mr. Edwin 

 Lees, from the London Botanical Society; but our R. nitidus is very 

 different from our R. plicatus, and is a genuine bramble. It flowers 

 freely in July and throughout the remaining summer, and bears plenty 

 of fruit in autumn. 



169. R. coRYLiFOLius. "Woods in Hooker's Brit. Flora (1830), 

 i. 248. — Common in hedges and in deans. 



Barren stems long and arching, green but often purpled, especially 

 in autumn, polished, obtusely pentangular, smooth and naked, armed 



