198 BRITISH BOTANY. 



Woods. Shrub. July, August. 



Var. foliosus, W. and N. — Leaves ovate or obovate, coarsely 

 and doubly toothed ; lower pair of leaflets slightly overlapping 

 the intermediate pair. Fruit small. 



23. R. scaber, Weihe. Scabrous Bramble. — l.c. (34). A. 4. 

 C. 5. Lat. 31-54°. 



Stem angular, furrowed with deflexed very unequal prickles 

 intermixed with aciculi (pricklets) and setse (glandular hairs). 

 Leaflets ovate or obovate, sharply serrated with mucronate teeth, 

 rigid, smooth, with only a few scattered hairs on the under side. 

 Panicle spreading, with long, horizontal branches. Sepals lan- 

 ceolate. Fruit small. 



Woods. Shrub. July ?- September. 



24. R. Bellardi, W. and N. Bellard's Bramble. — l.c. (33 a). 

 A. 4. C. 6. Lat. 51-55°. 



Stems rounded, armed with prickles, aciculi, and in the upper 

 part densely hairy or shaggy ; prickles small, unequal, straight, 

 slender ; hairs spreading, dense on the petioles. Leaves ternate ; 

 leaflets rounded or obovate-oblong, sharply serrated with mucro- 

 nate teeth. Panicles compound, branched, more or less dense; 

 rach shaggy with glandular hairs. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 

 spreading. 



This is now a var. of R. glandulosus. 



Woods and hedges. Shrub. July-September. 



25. R. glandulosus, Bellardi. Glandular Bramble. — e.b. 

 2883. L.c. 33. Area and range as in 24. 



Stem slightly angular or rounded, furrowed, hairy-glandular; 

 prickles slender, unequal. Leaves ternate in <y rosaceus, quinate, 

 deep-green on both sides, more or less hairy ; leaflets petiolate, 

 lower pair on the barren stem declinate, none overlapping ; ter- 

 minal leaflet ovate or obovate, or oblong, all with sharp, unequal 

 teeth. Panicle branched, leafy below ; rach hairy-shaggy, with 

 numerous setse (bristles bearing glands) and very unequal slender 

 prickles. Sepals lanceolate, glandular, and armed with small 

 prickles (aciculi). Shrub. July, August. 



Var. Lejeunii, Bell Salter, ' Phytologist,^ vol. ii. p. 135. — 

 Leaves of barren stem ternate, pliant, deep-green, finely but un- 

 equally serrated ; one of the leaves subtending a branch of the 

 panicle is broadly cordate, and one or two broadly ovate or ovate, 

 less glandular than the typical form. 



