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equal below; terminal stalked, ovate, siibcordate at the base, 

 acuminate ; stipules slender ; petioles which are channelled 

 above and under side of midribs with a few small slightly- 

 hooked ])rickles. Rarely the leaves have three pairs and 

 a terminal leaflet. 



Flowering shoots surrounded at the base by fuscous 

 scales, short, flowering thj-oughout their length. Prickles 

 small, deflexed, from a compressed dilated base, coloured 

 like those of the stem, sometimes very few. Leaves ternate, 

 rarely pinnate. Leaflets like those of the stem. Peduncles 

 from the lower axils one- or few-flowered. Panicle many- 

 flowered, corymbose; flowers all pendulous. Sepals ovate, 

 acuminate, with a slender reflexed point, greenish white, 

 felted, with a white edge, often prickly, spreading. Petals 

 narrow, erect, white. Fruit crimson or amber-coloured. 



There is a variety of this plant having amber-coloured 

 fruit, pale prickles on the stem, and the leaflets rather obo- 

 vate. It is the White Raspberry of gardens, but is not often 

 found wild. The R. Idceus f3. asj^errimus (Lees ! in Steele's 

 Handh. 60) is a very prickly state of this variety. His 

 specimen is trifoliate. 



A form having septenate leaves on the stem and pinnate 

 leaves on the flowering shoots is mentioned by authors, but 

 I have not seen a splecimen of it. 



The British ternate-leafed plant ((i. trifoliatus Bell Salt. I 

 in Ann. Nat. Hist, xti; 36d ; and Bromf. Fl. Vect. 154) is 

 very strong and luxuriant. Its leaves are larger than those 

 of any other form of the species ; the terminal leaflet is 

 long-stalked, deeply cordate at the base, and often has three 

 deep acuminate lobes at the end. I possess specimens of it 

 from the Isle of Wight and the Lake Country of the north 

 of England. I have not seen the y. microj)hyllus of Lees 

 (1. c), which he describes aS possessing very small trifoliate 

 leaves, but gives no further information concerning it. It 



