194 BRITISH BOTANY. 



on both sides, smooth; leaflets cuneate at the base, oblong- 

 ovate; lower pair on short petioles, with large, sharp teeth. 

 Flowers in close, terminal and axillary clusters ; rach glandular, 

 hairy, with a few long, slender prickles. Sepals acuminate, nearly 

 as long as the petals. Fruit enclosed in the calyx. 



Woods. Shrub. July-September. 



Var. R. Borreri, Bell Salter, An. Nat. Hist, vol. xv. p. 306. — 

 Stem rounded or angular; prickles slender, deflexed, unequal. 

 Leaves of barren stem quinate, of the same colour on both sides. 

 Leaflets oblong-obovate, deeply and sharply toothed or doubly 

 toothed, lower pair not overlapping ? Flowers in branched, com- 

 pact panicles; rach shaggy, glandular? Sepals ovate, pointed, 

 very shaggy. 



15^. R. leucostachys, Sm. — R. vestitus, W. and N. Wliite- 

 sjslked Bramble.— ^.B. 2631. l.c. (15). A. 10. C. 19. Lat. 

 51-56°. 



Stem angular or rounded, clothed with white hairs or down; 

 prickles straight, horizontal, strong, equal, hairy and enlarged 

 at the base. Leaves quinate, leathery, smooth and green above, 

 soft and whitish below, shaggj' or tomentose, always with white, 

 shining hairs ; leaflets petioled, the lowest pair deflexed, obovate 

 or oblong, pointed, sharply serrated, with mucronate teeth. 

 Panicle branched and leafy below, more or less dense and narrow 

 above. Pedicels shaggy, with long and short hairs interspersed 

 with a few setse and glands (aciculi and setae) . Fruit purplish-black. 



Var. vestitus. — Leaves more or less pliable, slightly hairy 

 above, shaggy or tomentose below ; leaflets more rounded than in 

 the type. Sepals hairy, glanduliferous. 



Var. villicaulis. — Stem rather more densely hairy. Leaflets 

 obovate or oblong. 



Var. argenteus. — Stem angular, very shaggy. Leaves oblong- 

 obovate, white below. Sepals shaggy, armed with prickles. 



Var. R. Leightonianus, Bab. — Stem angular or rounded, hairy, 

 with straight, slightly deflexed prickles, which are on a dilated, 

 hairy base. Leaflets thin, roundish, doubly toothed, pale green 

 and hairy beneath. Panicle with rather distant, spreading 

 branches, densely clothed with hairs and setse (bristles bearing 

 glands). — Compare ' Phytologist,' iii. 176, where the Rev. W. A. 

 Leighton clearly shows that this is neither a species nor even a 

 variety, but the veritable R. leucostachys, var. vestitus. It is 



