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iv. RuBi PiLOSi. Stem arching, angular, with equal prickles, spar- 

 ingly clothed with spreading hairs. 



R. carpinifolius, W. and N. Stem clothed with scattered hairs, 

 and armed with yellowish deflexed prickles ; leaves quinate, hairy 

 above, glaucous-green and pubescent beneath, central leaflet obtusely 

 wedge-shaped, with a long cusp ; panicle long, often narrow, white 

 with hairs concealing glands, close at the summit. Col wall Woods. 



R. amplificatiis, Lees. Stem decumbent, very long, with scattered 

 hairs, and deflexed prickles ; leaves quinate, the leaflets elliptical, 

 central one with a long cusp ; panicle long, narrow, hairy, leafy be- 

 low, the branches short and few-flowered above. In most of the 

 woods about Malvern and Worcester. 



|3, Schlechtendalii, W. and N. Stronger and larger, with a wider 

 developed panicle, and monstrous foliage. A singular bush of this 

 form grows in Cowleigh Park, where it has existed many years, in the 

 ravine by a little bridge ; it has enormously developed panicles, with 

 long paniculate branches. The shrub extends itself proliferously by 

 annual shoots (not rooting) proceeding from the axils of the leaves. 



R. macrophyllus, W. and N. Stem clothed with hairs, prickles 

 numerous but small ; leaves ternate and quinate, smooth above, the 

 ribs and veins covered with long hairs beneath ; rachis densely clothed 

 with hairs ; panicle long, with numerous spreading branches, leafy 

 nearly to the summit ; peduncles hairy, often concealing glands j fruit 

 small. Upper part of Cowleigh Park. 



V. RuBi Candicantes. Stem sulcate, angular, glaucous, hoary, 

 with equal prickles. 



R. discolor, W. and N. Stem glaucous, with minute pubescence ; 

 prickles falcate, strong, and numerous; leaves quinate, smooth above, 

 hoary -white beneath, coriaceous ; leaflets elliptical or ovate-oblong, 

 acute, and deeply serrate ; panicle long, narrow, compound, hoary, 

 with patent almost leafless branches. Woods and thickets. Com- 

 mon. 



Tliis is the old " fruticosus " of English authors, and although not 

 so variable as many other brambles, yet in the variety macroacanthus 

 the stem becomes so silky, and the panicle loosely tomentose, as to 

 put on a very different aspect to the type. Perhaps the following 

 should only be considered a variety, but its aspect is very elegant. 



R. argenieus, W. and N. Stem downy, or closely tomentose ; 

 leaves quinate, their leaflets sharply dentate, wish long cusps, smooth 

 and shining above, silvery, with dense tomentum beneath ; rachis 



