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patent hairs. The leaves are ternate, as well as quiuate, but mostly 

 the latter, not always very large ; but the leaflets have a 'peculiar 

 white tomenhiin heneath,^' that distinguishes them from R. araplifica- 

 tus ; the intermediate and terminal leaflets being nearly of the same 

 size, but with a v^'avy, irregular outline, and very coarse serratures. 

 The large panicle appears often almost unarmed ; and, if the branches 

 are short, the floral leaves rise far above them ; but in full luxuriance 

 it is long, with wide-spreading, leafy branches, densely hairy, and with 

 numerous pale, weak prickles ; glands being often concealed amidst 

 the spreading hairs. The lower axillary branches have large, ternate 

 floral leaves (also with a pallid silvery aspect beneath), which are much 

 reduced in size upon the ascending ones ; so that near the summit of 

 the panicle they are quite lanceolate ; but the uppermost branches 

 are naked. Calyces reflex in flower and fruit, their sepals densely 

 hairy, sometimes prickly ; the fruit round, very small, of few drupes, 

 and of an intensely polished black. In woods and forest thickets, 

 rare. Chiefly in the South of England. St. Leonard's Forest, Sus- 

 sex ; and at " The Shorden," a wood near Hastings. Near Ilfra- 

 combe, Devon ; and in Cowleigh Park, near Cradley, Herefordshire. 

 Also in Glamorganshire, and by the lower Llanberis Lake, Caernarvon- 

 shire. (The specimen distributed in Leighton's Fascic. of Rubi as 

 " R. macrophyllus" is only R. amplificatus). 



Subdiv. v. Rubi Candicantes. 



jR. thyrsoideus, Wimm. Stem sulcate, almost glabrous, with very 

 few fascicled hairs ; prickles numerous, strong ; leaves quinate, 

 smooth above, silvery pubescent beneath ; the leaflets all stalked, 

 middle and basal elliptical, central one oblong, all very sharply ser- 

 rate, cuspidate ; panicle long, thyrsoid, with numerous axillary 

 branches, distant below, gradually shorter and very crowded at the 

 summit ; peduncles shaggy with hairs, armed with falcate prickles ; 

 calyces tomentose, tawny, loosely reflex in fruit. Hedges and 

 thickets, but not common. 



&. macroacanthus. Stem and petioles densely armed with falcate 

 prickles ; rachis covered with stiff" hairs ; panicle pyramidal, with 

 numerous, many-flowered, corymbose branches, gradually shortening 

 to the summit ; peduncles, calyces, and under side of leaves white, 

 with a thick investiture of stiff" white hairs. 



* " Foliola," observe W. & N., in their detailed description of R. macrophyllus, 

 " in latere supcriori saturate viridia parum pilosa, in latere inferiori sub-tomentosa, 

 pallide viridia, coriacea." — Ruh. Germ. p. .35. 



