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R. humifusus, VV. & N, Stem procumbent, sulcata, covered with 

 numerous, but very slender and elongated, setae, aciculi, and prickles ; 

 leaves ternate or quinate, glaucous, but closely pubescent, beneath ; 

 leaflets obovate, acuminate, sharply serrate ; panicle narrow, with 

 short, axillary, lower branches, densely crowded at the summit, very 

 hairy and setose, armed with excessively slender prickles j sepals 

 elongated, densely setose and hairy, closely armed with slender 

 prickles. In thick woods, rare. Harlshill, Warwickshire ; and in 

 the forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Near Caernarvon, and in Baron- 

 hill Woods, Anglesea. 



A prostrate bramble, the flowering stems rising from the ground, 

 with a foliose aspect, and glaucous-green colour. The prickles, both 

 of the stem and panicle, are long and sharp, slender as needles, and 

 quite peculiar. This is referred as var. foliosus to hirtus, by Mr. 

 Babington ; but I here coincide with Dr. Bell-Salter. 



JR. mncronatus, Blox. Stem obtusely angular, slightly hairy, with 

 a few scattered, inconspicuous setae, and few, distant, straight prickles; 

 leaves ternate and quinate, large, thin, and gi'een on both sides, hairy 

 on the veins beneath ; central leaflet broadly obovate, abruptly cus- 

 pidate ; panicle lax, wavy, leafy below, spreading towards the summit, 

 covered with long hairs and pale, weak, setae ; the uppermost flowers 

 on long, hairy, setose peduncles, armed with very long weak prickles. 

 Shady thickets, rare. Twy cross, Leicestershire ; Hartshill, Warwick- 

 shire ; also in Shropshire, according to Leighton's ' Fasciculus.' 



This is one of those anomalous forms that it is difficult to place 

 correctly without some study and observation. Mr. Leighton has 

 distributed it, in his Fascic. of Rubi, as " R. sylvaticus ;" and Mr. 

 Bloxam, in his account of the Leicestershire Bubi, considers it a 

 hairy bramble, with the above name. My observant friend, however, 

 sent it to me originally as R. lingua, TV. 8f N. ; and I described it 

 under that appellation in Steele's ' Handbook ' (1847). It appears to 

 me to be clearly a glandular bramble, green, weak, and attenuated, 

 from growing in the shade. Its upper single flowers, rising above the 

 central one, on hairy pedicels, covered with long pale setae, and still 

 more elongated needle-like prickles, give it often a remarkable ap- 

 pearance ; but, when less developed, the panicle is flexuose and race- 

 mose, as in R. Guntheri. The setose sepals become inflex about 

 the half-ripe fruit, but are finally loosely reflex. In this last particu- 

 lar, they agree with R. Menkii as well as in the ashy tomentum^ men- 

 tioned by Mr. Bloxam as clothing the rachis. 



