CHAP. XLII. 



ROSA CE^E. 7JU BUS. 



739 



and oiiry?^'. 454. 



Spec. Ckar.ySfc. Stem rather round, bejuiiig stout 

 recurved prickles, coin|M-essed at tlie base. Leaf- 

 lets 3 — 5, pinnately cut, sharply serrate, a little 

 downy beneath. Flowers in loose panicles, 

 white or rose-coloured. Sepals lanceolate, leafy 

 at the tip, tomentose, prickled, reflexed. Petals '-^ 

 wedge-shaped, 3-lobed at the tip. Carpels, 

 roundish, dark coloured. {Dec. Prod.,ii.p.55S.) 

 The appearance of this plant is that of the 

 common bramble, except in the leaflets, which, 

 from their being deeply cut, are strikingly dil- 

 ferent. Where it was first fountl is unknown ; 

 but it is, in all probability, only a variety of tlie 

 common bramble, analogous to the cut-leaved 

 variety of the elder (iSambucus nigra laciniiita). 

 Plants maybe obtained at the principal nurseries, 



-* 11. 7?. CvE^sius L. The grey Bramble, or Dcivhcrry. 



Iilentification. Lin. Sp., 706. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. S.W. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 5,j3. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t. 22. ; Hayne Abl)ild., t. 100. ; Eng. Bot.,t. 820. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Stem trailing, round, in 



many instances suffused with a grey ^^ 



bloom, bearing slender and a little re- '^^^ 



curved prickles. Leaflets 3 in a leaf, ovate, ^'^^^^ 

 doubly serrated or crenated, glabrous, or 

 obscurely ciliated. Panicle almost simple. 

 Sepals ovate-acuminate. Petals white. 

 Fruit sweet. Carpels large, few, greyish. 

 {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 558.) 

 Varieties. 



Jc R, f. 2 arvcnsis Wallr. Sched., p. 288. ; 

 R. psetido-cae^sins JVci/ie, accord- 

 ing to Em. Meyer in Litt. — Leaf- 

 lets tomentose beneath. Branches 

 puberulous. 

 -* R. r. 3 graudiflorus Ser. — Pubescent. 



Petals and sepals long. 

 -* R.c.4;wri'//o//»s Wallr. Sched., p. 228.; 

 and our ^)j. 455. — Stem ascending, 



purplish, ultimately naked. Leaves small, incisely lobcd. 

 1 — 3-flowcred. A native of herbage-covered hills. 

 -* R. c. 5fo/iis vnriegatis Hort. has variegated leaves. 

 Descrq^tion, Sfc. A low, weakly, straggling, prostrate plant, haying the 

 flowers with iilush-coloured petals, and thermit small, with few grains ; but 



these large, juicy, black, with a fine glaucous 

 bloom, and'very agreeably acid. It is a na- 

 tive of Euroiie, and the north-east of Asia, 

 in woods and hedges. By some it has been 

 proposed to be cultivated on account of its 

 A fruit. (See Encijc. of Gard., ed. 1835, p. 

 940.) This species, "or race, varies exceed- 

 ingly in different situations ; whence have 

 arisen the following varieties (12 — 16.), of 

 more marked character than those already 

 given, and which are considered by some as 

 in which form they are as follows : — 



-* 12. R. hi'rtus W. Ss- K. The hairy Bramble. 



hUntificaiion. Waldst. and Kit. Plant. Rar. Hung., 2. p. l.W. t. 141. ; Don's Mill, 2. p. 53;3. 

 Synonymes. R. villosus Ait, var. glaiiduK.su.s Ser. in Dec. Prod., 2. p. tm. ; «. glandulusus Bell. App. 



Fl. Pcdem , p. 24. ; R. hyhridus I'i/i. IMpli., ,3. p. 3.V.). 

 Engraving. Waldst. and Kit. Plant. liar. Hung., 2. p. l.W. 1. 141. 



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