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and serrated. Panicle leafy, long and flexuous. Peduncles 

 downy and densely liairy. Sepals downy, incurved about the 

 flowers and immature fruit. 



Thickets. Shrub. July ? — ' Phytologist,' vol. iv. p. 822. 



5. R. imbricatus, Hort., An. of Nat. Hist. vol. ii. ser. vii. 

 A. 1. C. 2. Lat. 51-53°. 



Stem angular, furrowed, purplish-red ; prickles small, deflexed 

 on a long (broad) base. Leaflets roundish -cord ate, cuspidate, 

 imbricate (overlapping each other) . Panicle narrow, leafy below. 

 Fruit roundish. 



Valley of the Wye, near Monmouth ; plentiful. Shrub. June- 

 August. 



6. R, rhamnifolius, W. and N. Buckthorn-leaved Bramble. 

 E.B. 2604. L.c. (11). Cybele,.No. 12. A. 10. C. 15. Lat. 

 51-56°. 



Stems angular, furrowed. Prickles uniform, straight, deflexed 

 on very broad bases ; prickles on the petioles curved, much de- 

 flexed. Leaves ternate or quinate. Leaflets on the barren stems 

 oblong or obovate, pointed, petiolate, lowest pair deflexed, those of 

 the fertile stem sessile, all ovate-oblong or rhomboid, finely and 

 sharply toothed, more or less hairy on both sides, w^hitish below, 

 green above. Flowers in rather dense, panicled clusters at the 

 base; dense, and on short peduncles on the upper part, open, 

 and on long, axillary peduncles. Sepals ovate, shortly acumi- 

 nate, densely shaggy on both sides, reflexed, about half as long 

 as the petals. — Shrub. July, August. 



Var. R. cordifolius, W. and N., differs from R. rhamnifolius 

 in its rather more flexible and greener leaves, terminal leaflet 

 slightly cordate at the base, rounded, and shortly and sharply 

 acuminate. — This is rather a synonym of R. rhamnifolius than 

 the name of a variety. 



7. R. afdnis, W. and N. Related Bramble. — l.c. (7). Cy- 

 bele, No. 8. A. 11. C. 17. Lat. 51-57°. 



Stem angular, hairy ; prickles slender, deflexed, slightly 

 curved. Leaflets ovate, coarsely serrated, dark green above, 

 paler beneath, more or less hairy on the under side. Flowers in 

 a long, straggling panicle. Fruit of many large, black grains. 



Woods. Shrub. August ? 



Compare Leighton in ' Shropshire Flora,' p. 226. This is en- 

 tered in deference to the authors of the London Catalogue. 



