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R. scaler, W. and N. Stem angular, not liairy, but horrent with 

 falcate or strongly declining prickles, intermixed with innumerable 

 short setae and aciculi, all having red verrucose bases dispersed on all 

 sides ; leaves ternate or pedate, smooth beneath, leaflets obovate, 

 crisped and wavy at the margin, deeply cut, their midribs fringed with 

 small prickles ; panicle long, spreading, subracemose ; lower branches 

 distant, leafy, upper ones closer ; peduncles hairy, densely prickly, 

 and closely setose ; sepals woolly and thorny, loosely reflex in flower 

 and fruit. Rare. Woods on the Old Storrage. An excessively 

 prickly form. 



R. rudis, W. and N. Stem dark and sulcate, hispid with short 

 setae, the prickles extending beyond them ; leaves quinate, their late- 

 ral leaflets elliptical ; central one obovate, lanceolate, sharply incised, 

 gray with pubescence beneath ; panicle long, hairy, leafy, very setose 

 and prickly, with short branches crowded at the summits. Common 

 in woods and thickets. 



a. Radula, W. and N. Stem hispid, with numerous nearly equal 

 setae and few aciculi, above which the prickles stand very distinct and 

 unconnected ; leaves quinate, their leaflets ovato-elliptical, central one 

 ovate, grayish beneath, and doubly dentate ; panicle long, hairy, and 

 setose, armed with long descending prickles ; lower branches distant 

 and leafy, upper ones closer ; sepals very hairy and setose, elongated 

 and reflex. Woods and thickets. 



A fine straggling thicket bramble, and variable in aspect according 

 to exposure ; but differing from the general mass of glandulose Rubi 

 by the fringe of setae and aciculi on its barren stem not graduating 

 into prickles, and the latter not ranging very close together. 



iii. Rubi Villosi. Stem angular, arching, more or less hairy, with 

 occasional setae ; rachis very hairy. 



R. villicaidis, W. and N. Stem covered with dense white hairs ; 

 leaves quinate, densely ciliated with stifFhairs beneath ; rachis closely 

 covered with spreading and decumbent hairs ; panicle long, with 

 alternating ascending short cymose branches, the greater number 

 naked, and few- flowered towards the summit. Not common. Rough 

 Hill Dingle, and woods at Alfrick. 



Very characteristic from the white silkiness of the long, mostly nar- 

 row panicle, and downy floral leaves. One of the most elegant of Bri- 

 tish brambles, if contemplated just before the expansion of the flowers. 



R. vesiitus, W. and N. {R. leucostachys, Sm.) Stem covered with 

 fascicled unequal hairs (often in maturity denuded) ; prickles pun- 



