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on Bromsgrove Lickey, Worcestershire. Also by the side of Llyn Cwel- 

 lyn, and near Capel Curig, Caernarvonshire. Mr. Samuel Gibson sent 

 it me from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, unnamed, nearly ten years 

 since ; and Mr. S. E. Wilson, from Cheshire. 



Perhaps the most beautiful of the British Rubi, delighting in shady 

 upland woods, often among the Vaccinium Myrtillus, where the bar- 

 ren stem trails upon the ground, throwing up numerous alternate 

 flowering shoots, densely covered with weak, but long and spreading, 

 white hairs ; yet the plant is scarcely evident to the view until the 

 small, but very deep red, flowers are unfolded. The prickles are 

 always small, not quite uniform in size, pale yellow, and often very 

 uncinate. The panicle is very hairy, with distant, leafy, cymose 

 branches below, single-flowered, with narrow, leafy bracts, above ; 

 peduncles clothed with long extending hairs, partly spreading, partly 

 accumbent, and entangled among which are a few slender, pale 

 prickles. Sometimes the panicle is excessively complicated, the 

 branches themselves becoming doubly cymose, and the central flower 

 overtopped. The sepals are elongated, densely hairy, partially 

 investing the half-ripe fruit, but at length loosely reflex ; petals small, 

 rugose, bright red, or, more rarely, white ; fruit small, of few drupes, 

 deep purplish black. 



/3. Borreri (R. Borreri, Bell-Salt.). Stem stouter, with larger and 

 more unequal prickles, and a few setae and aciculi. Leaves generally 

 quinate ; panicle corymbose, prickly ; the widely spreading branches 

 with setae far overtopped by the wavy hairs. Growing in more ex- 

 posed places than the type, and so forming taller and more luxuriant 

 bushes ; but intermediate connecting forms occur. Warwickshire, 

 Cheshire, &c. I observed it very fine, a few years since, at Burnham 

 Beeches, Buckinghamshire. 



R. macrophyllus, W. & N. In mentioning this species in a gene- 

 ral account of Rubi, I would still further indicate its distinctness from 

 my R. amplificatus, with which it is so generally confounded. The 

 latter common form is certainly not the German plant of Rub. Germ, 

 t. xii., the one now in review, and which I believe to be the real plant 

 of the Sussex forests, where 1 have studied it. R. macrophyllus has 

 its barren stem very thick, yet pithy, not ligneous, deeply sulcate, and 

 surrounded with a fringe of patent hairs ; the prickles very distant, 

 few, and exceedingly small in proportion to the size of the shrub. 

 The stem, in moist places, extends widely, and arches, but grows in 

 a suberect manner when confined. In the latter case, it is often 

 densely hairy ; while, when more exposed, there is merely a fringe of 

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