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Gunniana* N. O. Rosaceae. 



TAB. CCXCI. 



RUBUS GUNNIANUS. 



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Repens inermis subherbaceus, ratnis brevissimis apice foliosis, 

 foliis ternatis (rarius integris simplicibus) foliolis inciso-serra- 

 tis glabris termiiiali triple majore, petioh's dilatatis, flore ter- 

 minali solitario, pedunculo pubescente foliis breviore, calyce 



glabro, ovariis subquinque. 

 Hab. On the Surrey Hills, Van Dieman's Land, abundantly 

 in fruit in February. It also grows as low down as the 



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(«. 271.) DrMilli 



" This forms large patches in exposed situations, covering 

 spaces 2 feet or more in diameter, generally growing on decayed 

 wood, frequent on' the rotten end of a tree, of which the other 

 end is still sound. In general, if there be no traces of wood 

 remaining, yet, on examination, I have generally found the soil 

 consisted°principally of decayed wood or bark, mixed with other 

 vegetable matter. The fruit, which is large, and nearly of the 

 size of Rubus saxatilis, as figured in the Flora Londinensis, (to 

 which indeed it bears a great resemblance,) grows beneath the 

 foliage, usually hidden from the light, and partly, sometimes 

 wholly, buried in the light soil in which it grows. The flavour 

 is excellent, being very similar tc that of the Cranberry. From 

 its growing where snow covers the ground a considerable part 

 of the winter, and where the climate is at all seasons very cold, 

 I think it would succeed well in your country, an<ij>e an 

 agreeable addition to your list of esculent fruits."— 



Mr 



Letter. 



So interesting a plant, found in a country which is proverbial 



for being destitute of esculent fruits, richly deserves the name of 

 its inestimable discoverer, who has so successfully exerted himself 

 in making known the vegetable productions of Van Dieman s 

 Land. The species belongs to the same group with Etdms 

 arctiais, saxatilis, Chanuxmorus, S^c 



Fig. 1, 2. Flower. / 3. Calyx laid open '.—magnified. 



