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interspersed glands, involute on the half-ripe fruit ; petals small, 

 crumpled, not exceeding the calyx in length. Subalpine woods. 

 On the woody ascent at the back of the hotel at Capel Curig. On 

 the side of the ravine below Conant Mawr, Caernarvonshire. 



This is a very prickly bramble, with a suberect habit, the stem 

 sometimes marked with blotches; and its nearest relationship appears 

 to be with R. affinis ; but its elliptical, sharply-cut leaflets, and race- 

 mose panicle, give it a very different appearance to either that or the 

 suberect Rubi ; and it is rather comparable to R. Guntheri, among 

 the glandular group. The flowers are in general small, and the whole 

 plant weak ; yet the stem is so prickly, and the points of the prickles 

 so sharp and attenuated, that it is one of the most lacerating among 

 the whole tribe. It seems attached to subalpine spots, where only 

 I have found it, and does not fruit well, except on moist ground. 



The stem appears to be constantly suberect, but bent to the ground 

 with the flowering shoots, which mostly rise up in a fastigiate man- 

 ner ; leaves sometimes septenate ; the rachis is clothed with spread- 

 ing hairs ; the panicle flexuose, variable in length, in full luxuriance 

 long, with many alternating axillary racemes of small flowers ; floral 

 leaves ternate ; the uppermost branches clustered, single-flowered, 

 naked ; peduncles and bracts covered with long spreading hairs, with 

 a few glands on the latter ; calyces closely hairy and prickly, with 

 glands hidden in the pubescence ; the sepals patent in flower, and 

 until the fruit is half ripe, then becoming loosely reflex ; petals very 

 small, crumpled, inflex, scarcely exceeding the sepals in length ; sta- 

 mina and styles pale green ; fruit, in a half- ripe state, a brilliant red, 

 but finally intensely-polished black, oblong and irregular, of many 

 drupes. Ripe in September. 



Subdiv. vii. Rubi Suberecti. 



R. suberectus, And. Stem angular, polished, smooth ; prickles dis- 

 tant, straight ; leaves ternate, quinatc, or septenate, flexible, with pro- 

 minent veins beneath ; central leaflet cordate, acuminate, often 

 very elongate ; panicle almost simple (when the stem trails on the 

 ground), or long, with leafy, corymbose branches ; the upper flowers 

 erect, on hairy pedicels, overtopping the central one ; sepals hairy, 

 patent about the half-ripe fruit. Subalpine woods and boggy heaths. 



ft. Jissus (R. fissus, Lind.). Prickles numerous, very slender; 

 leaves more hairy ; basal leaflets sessile, or united with the interme- 

 diate, central one divided at the base ; panicle short, crowded. 



y. umbrosus. Stem firm and lofty; leaves very large ; the central 



