190 BRITISH BOTANY. 



8. R. Grabowskiij'Weihe? Grabowsky's Bramble. — l.c.(12). 

 Cybele. No. 13. A. 1. Leicester. Lat. 52-53°. 



Stem glabrous, or slightly downy, with blunt angles ; prickles 

 numerous, slender, straight or hooked, much deflexed, slightly 

 hairy at the base. Leaves of the barren stem quinate, of the 

 fertile ternate, on petioles furnished with numerous strongly 

 hooked prickles. Leaflets shortly petioled, rounded, cordate at 

 the base, shortly acuminate, unequally and finely serrated ; teeth 

 mucronate; midribs furnished with numerous strongly hooked 

 prickles, glabrous above, pale green and slightly hairy below. 

 Flowers in simple clusters; rach (common peduncle) very prickly ; 

 prickles very long, straight or hooked ; hairs spreading, not nu- 

 merous, except on the pedicels. 



Woods, etc. Slu'ub. August. 



9. R. nitidus, W. and N. Shinirig-stalked Bramble, — l.c. (6) . 

 A. 9. C. 16. Lat. 51-56°. 



Stem quite smooth {fere glabra = almost smooth), with blunt 

 angles, more or less prickly ; prickles of the stem deflexed, not 

 straight, compressed and dilated at the base. Leaflets all petio- 

 late, ovate or obovate or oblong, more or less acuminate, slightly 

 cordate at the base, doubly, coarsely and unequally toothed, gla- 

 brous above (on the upper surface), soft and downy underneath, 

 green on both sides. Petioles, both general and partial, thickly 

 armed with hooked, deflexed prickles, which extend along the 

 midrib of the leaflets of the barren stem. — Note. The lower pair 

 of leaflets are stalked, and do not overlap the intermediate pair 

 {Babington) . Panicle prickly, composed of divergent, horizontal 

 branches. Sepals whitish, densely shaggy, with short points. 

 Petals twice as large as the sepals. Fruit small. 



Hedges and thickets. Shrub. July-September. (See ' Phy- 

 tologist, vol. ii. p. 101-2, vol. iii. pp. 75, 360.) 



Var. R. affinis, W. and N. (see No. 7, l.c.) — (Cybele, No. 8. 

 A. 11, 17. Lat. 51-57°.) — Stem angular, with rather stouter, 

 strongly curved prickles ? than R. nitidus ; leaflets more leathery, 

 and rather tomentose on the under side ; flowers in rather more 

 erect, axillary corymbs ; sepals more acuminate. — Compare ' Phy- 

 tologist,' vol. iii. pp. 73, 325. See Leighton's ' Shropshire Flora/ 

 where there is an elaborate description of this and the other 

 Salopian Brambles. (See before, p. 189.) 



Var. R. macrophylluSy W. and N. — e.b. 2625. l.c (21). Ba- 



