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becoming reflexed in fruit. — This is a neat Bramble of average size, 

 with smaller leaves than any of its congeners. The lower pair are 

 strongly bent backwards. It bears fruit freely. — The description of 

 Weihe and Nees von Esenbeck answers better to our plant than their 

 figure. 



172. R. coRDiFOLius. — Barren stem reddish, angular, striate 

 when dried, smooth with a few hairs ; prickles of moderate size and 

 number, straight, confined to the angles ; stipules narrow-lanceolate, 

 glandular ; leaves quinate, rather coriaceous, green on both sides, 

 even and almost naked above, hairy on the nervures underneath, ser- 

 rate, entire towards the base ; lower leaflets reflexed and stalked, 

 ovate, cuspidate, the terminal leaflet (fig. 3, h) orbicular, cuspidate, 

 on a rather long pedicle : — The flowering branch is villous, furrowed, 

 with patent or deflexed prickles, and ternate leaves ; the lower leaflets 

 often lobed, the terminal like that of the barren stem, but becoming 

 ovate on the panicle. Branchlets of the panicle patent, villous with 

 a few stalked glands and many long prickles which are crowded at the 

 base of the calyx ; sepals downy, scarcely glandular, with a distinct 

 mucronate point ; petals white. — I have a specimen from Lamlash in 

 Arran, identical with our Berwickshire plant, labelled by Mr. Babing- 

 ton R. cordifolius, — a name which I have adopted. In the last edition 

 of the Manual this is made synonymous with R. rhamnifolius ; but our 

 R. rhamnifolius and R. cordifolius are not the same species. And it 

 is distinguished from R. carpinifolius by the form of the leaflet, which, 

 in our plant, is cuspidate ; while in R. carpinifolius it tapers gradually 

 to the point. In hedges and copses, rare. 



173. R. MUCRONATUS, Bloxam in Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. 

 vi. 491. Bab. Man. 97; Babington in Ann. cit. ix. 126. — Hedges 

 and copses, rare. — Barren stem arched or trailing, long and stout, 

 roundish or obsoletely angular, reddish-brown or dull green, distinctly 

 striated, very sparingly furnished with silky hairs and glandular setae, 

 more copiously with prickles, which are scattered, small, straight, 

 moderately enlarged at the base, purplish \nt\\ yellow tips. Leaves 

 4-nate or 3-nate, on purple somewhat downy and glandular stalks 

 armed with curved yellowish prickles which run up the midrib of the 

 leaflets : these are stalked, green on both sides, with a few scattered 

 short hairs on the upper side, while the nervures and veins of the 

 under side are a little more hairy, the margins crenato-serrate, the 

 serratures ciliated and each tipped with a distinct mucro ; lower leaflets 

 lobed ; the terminal (fig. 3, c) roundish with a small sinus at the in- 

 sertion and a short cuspidate point. Stipules small, narrow lanceolate, 

 glandular and hairy. The barren stem is absent in my specimens. It 

 produces very long flower branches which are angulated, brown or dull 

 green, downy, armed with deflexed bristles, which are longer and 

 straight on the upper parts of the panicle and its side branchlets, but 

 not very numerous ; and the glandular setae are but sparingly visible 

 amidst the down. Leaves 3-nate, similar to those of the barren stem ; 

 the uppermost simple and ovate. Branchlets many-flowered, erecto- 

 patent ; the flowers rather small and white : calyx greyish-green. 



