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tomentose ; panicle hairy and prickly, the upper branches densely 

 crowded ; peduncles shaggy, closely armed with slender prickles ; 

 sepals densely tomentose, closely reflex in fruit. Not common. 

 Hedges near Cotheridge. 



vi. RuBi NiTiDi. Stem arched, angular, sulcate, smooth ; prickles 

 nearly equal ; sepals reflex in fruit. 



R. Lindleianus. Stem hairy at the base, but with only scattered 

 hairs and polished above ; prickles numerous, sharp, declining ; 

 leaves quinate, their leaflets elliptical, jaggedly serrate, and plicate 

 at the edges ; panicle long, with numerous branches, generally 

 spreading at right angles to the stem, densely crowded, compound 

 and thorny, clothed with unequal hairs ; floral leaves incised, nar- 

 rowing upwards to the entangled summit. Hedges and thickets. 

 Not uncommon. 



This bramble I originally received from Mr. Leighton, the author 

 of the ' Shropshire Flora,' as R. leucostachys of Dr. Lindley ; but it 

 is not the plant of Smith. Mr. Babington continues the name of 

 nitidus for it, as given by Dr. Bell Salter ; but not being the plant of 

 ' Rubi Germanici,' it can have no claim to an appellation given in 

 error. See ' Phytologist' for a full account of this plant. 



R. cordifolius, W. and N. Stem quite smooth, with distant 

 prickles ; leaves quinate, coriaceous, grayish-green beneath ; central 

 leaflet cordate ; panicle downy, lower branches spreading, leafy, upper 

 ones cyraose, crowded. Common in woods. 



R. affinis, W. and N. Stem sub-erect, finally arching, smooth and 

 polished, with declining yellow-pointed prickles ; leaves quinate, all 

 the leaflets stalked and plicate, shining above, pale green with soft 

 pubescence beneath, irregularly dentate, central one cordate-ovate, 

 acuminate ; panicle short and broad at the summit, with two or three 

 distant axillary branches below ; peduncles hairy, densely prickly ; 

 sepals hairy, elongated, reflex after flowering, but again rising to half 

 invest the deep black cylindrical fruit. Forming thickets among 

 waste pastures below Malvern Wells, but rare. 



This bramble seldom throws out rooting shoots, and never, as far 

 as I have seen, occurs in hedges. Distinguishable at first sight from 

 the two preceding, and closely approaching the sub-erect brambles. 



B. Fruticose brambles, erect or sub-erect, not rooting. Biennial. 



vii. Rubi Suberecti. Sub-erect, with quinate or septenatc leaves. 

 JR. plicatus, W. and N. Stem sub-erect, angular, smooth, and 



