CHAP. XLII. ROSA‘CEE. RU‘BUS. 735 
De Candolle’s Prodromus, Don’s Miller, and Lindley’s Synopsis ; and, next, a 
selected list of all those species and varieties, with references to the pages 
where they have been described and figured in the preceding descriptions. In 
giving these descriptions, those sorts which we consider to be only of interest 
to those who are fond of multiplying botanical distinctions will be found in 
smaller type, and may be passed over by those who do not wish to trouble 
themselves with minute differences. 
The propagation of the shrubby, or raspberry-like, species of Rébus is 
effected by suckers or seeds; that of the bramble division of the genus by 
pegging down the points of the shoots to the soil, when they will root, and 
throw out other shoots, which may again be pegged down; so that plants 
are procured from brambles much in the same way as from strawberries, 
Most of the raspberry kinds, and a few of the ornamental brambles, are 
procurable, in British nurseries, at 1s. 6d. a plant; at Bollwyller, for from 
1 franc to 14 francs ; and, at New York, for from 373 cents to 50 cents. The 
fruit-bearing raspberries, in the London nurseries, at 4d. each. 
§ i. Leaves pinnate, of 3—7 Leaflets. 
x & 1. R. suBere’ctus Anders. The sub-erect Bramble. 
Identification. Anders. in Linn. Soc. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p.556.; Don’s MilL, 2. p. 534.; Smith Eng, 
Flora, 2. p. 406. 3 ; a 
Synonymes. Lindley, in his Syn. of the Brit. Flora, has given the following :— FR. nessénsis Hall; R. 
plicatus W. & N., not of Suppl. to Eng. Bot., t. 2714., which is a smaller form of R. affinis W. & N. ; 
R. corylifdlius Wahlenb. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t.2572.; E. of Gard., 1835, fig. 496. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem erect. Leaf of never more than 5 leaflets, digitate, 
occasionally pinnate, thin, shining, and plaited. Flowers in simple 
corymbose racemes. Prickles weak. Is found in Britain, in moist woods, 
and by the sides of rivulets, chiefly in the northern counties. (Lindley, Synops. 
of the Brit. Flora, ed. 2. p. 92.) This is “the most frequent species, if 
species it be, in the upland zone.” (Watson, in Outl. Geog. Distr., p. 137.) 
The stems are biennial, and flower the second year, like those of the common 
raspberry, afterwards dying off. They grow nearly upright, without any 
support, and are between 3 ft. and 4 ft. high. The fruit consists of rather 
a small number of dark red, or blood-coloured, aggregate grains, said to be 
agreeably acid, with some flavour of the raspberry; whence it has been 
recommended by some as perhaps not unworthy of cultivation. 
« 2. R. arri‘nis Wethe §& Nees. The related Bramble. 
Identification. _Weihe and Nees’s Rubi Germanici, p. 22. t. 3, and 36. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 560.; Lindl. 
Synops. Br. Fl., 2d ed. p. 92, 93. i 
Synonymes. Lindley mentions the following : — R. collinus Dec.; R. nitidus Smzth in Eng. Flor., 
Lindley in Syn. Br. Fl.,ed.1.; R. plicatus Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2714. 
Engravings. Weihe and Nees’s R. G., t. 3. and 36.; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2714. 
Spec. Char., &c. Stem arched, angled, prickly with strong recurved prickles, glabrous. Leaflets 
3—5 in a leaf, ovate with a heart-shaped base, cuspidate, sharply serrated, flat at the base, a little 
waved towards the tip, having downy tomentum beneath. Flowers in a compound panicle, the 
component ones gymose. Sepals ovate-acuminate, externally naked, reflexed. Carpels large, 
blue-black. (Dec. Prod., 2. p. 560.) A native of Germany, also of barren hills of Montpelier, and 
of Britain, in boggy places ; and flowers in July and August. (Lindley, Synops. Br. Fl.) 
Variety. 
% R. a. 2 bractedsus Ser., R. «, y, and 5, Weihe and Nees’s Rubi Germ., t. 3. b. — Bracteas 
very broad, undivided. 
« 3. R. F1/ssus Lindl. The cleft Bramble. 
Identification. Lindl. Synops. Brit. Flora, ed. 2. p. 92. 
Synonyme. A. fastigiatus Lindl. in his Synops. Brit. Flora, ed.1., not of Weihe & Nees. 
Spec. Char., &c. Stemarched. Leaves digitate, shining, frequently of 7 leaflets, that are much less 
membranous than those of 2. suberéctus. Flowers in simple racemes. Prickles strong, numerous. 
It differs from A. affinis W. & N. in its small racemes, and in its floral leaves never being large 
and orbicular, as they are in &. affinis. ‘‘ The only specimen with which I am acquainted,” adds 
Dr. Lindley, ‘‘ is one sent to the garden of the Horticultural Society from Ayrshire,” (Lindley, 
Synops. Brit. Fi., ed. 2. p. 93.) 
#4, R.micra’ntHUs D. Don. The small-flowered Bramble. 
Identification. Don Prod. Fl. Nepal, p.235.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 557. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 530. 
Synonyme. R. paucifidrus Lindley in Bot. Reg., Hort. Brit., n. 13500. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t.854., as A. paucifldrus Lindi. ; and our jig. 449. representing a sprig to the 
usual scale, and figs. 450. and 450. a representing the flowers and fruit of the natural size. 
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