18. It. CAliPINIFOLIUS. 137 



18. R. carpinifolius W. and N. 



R. caule erecto-arcuato angiilato striato paten ti- 

 f fasciculate-) piloso, aculeis e base dilatato-compressa 

 declinatis tenuihus conico-compressis foliis quinatis, 

 foliolis tenuibus irregulariter sed argute serratis pilosis 

 subtus pallide viridibus vel canescentibus hirto-velu- 

 tiuis vel raro viridi-albo-tomentosis, foliolo terminali 

 obovato-acuminato vel cuspidate, paniculce angustce race- 

 mosae hirta3 setosae ramis inferioribus axillaribus pauci- 

 iloris brevibus aculeis defiexis vel declinatis, sepalis 

 hirtis setosis a fructu laxe reflexis. 



B. carpinifolius Rubi Germ. 36. t. 13 (1824?). Bab.! 

 Syn. 19; Man ed. 6. 110. Keichenb. ! Fl. exciirs. G02; Fl. 

 exsic. No. 874: (sp.). Bell Salt. ! in Pliytol. ii. 107. Syme's 

 Eng. Bot. iii. 175. 



R. carpinifolius a Bab. ! Man. ed. 4. 99. 



H. rhamnifoliits (first form in part) Leiglit. ! Fl. Shrop. 

 22G. 



R. vulgaris 8 carpinifolius Metsch in Linnsea, xxviii. 145. 



R. rhamnifolius Jolinst. ! E. Bord. 65. 



R. vulgaris Rubi Germ. 38. t. 14. 



Stem forming a very large arch so as often to seem 

 suberect in summer, angular, striate, with spreading often 

 clustered hairs and few or no subsessile glands. Prickles on 

 the angles, rather slender, compressed, declining, from a 

 very long compressed base. Leaves qn'mate. Zer///^As' flat (?), 

 obovate-elliptic-acnminate or obovate -cuspidate, usually small, 

 finely but irrogukirly and somewhat doubly serrate, with the 



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