BRITISH FLORA 



Rubus lereticaulis, P. J. Muell. The habitat of 

 this species is woods and heathland. The stem is 

 densely hairy, with crowded, spreading hairs and 

 acicles. The prickles are slender. The terminal 

 leaflet is inversely egg-shaped, rather narrow, 

 with a long narrow point. The rachis is rather 

 wavy, and the flower-stalk spreading, densely felted 

 and hairy, with crowded, unequal, sunken, black, 

 stalked glands, the longer stalked glands and 

 gland-tipped bristles few or none. The stamens 

 are nearly equal to the style. The carpels are 

 smooth. This species is intermediate between R. 

 foliosus and R. hirdis, var. rotundifolhts, differing 

 in bciifg more hairv than either and much smaller. 



Rubus ochrmhrmis, Ley. The habitat of this 

 plant is woods and rough open ground. The stem 

 is stout, rich yellow-brown, or dark-brown in 

 exposed places. The plant is very prickly and 

 nearly smooth. The prickles are crowded, short, 

 passing into minute tubercles. The leaves are 

 chiefly 3-lobed. The leaflets are nearly equal, the 

 terminal one roundish, inversely egg-shaped, with 

 a short narrow point. The panicle is long. The 

 flower-stalk is strongly ascending. The sepals are 

 turned back in flower and fruit. The stamens are 

 longer than the style. This plant recalls R. mu- 

 cronalus in the leaves and panicle, differing in 

 armature and stem. It is intermediate between it 

 and R. foliosus. 



Rubus vela/us, Lefv. The habitat of this plant 

 is woods. The stem bears scattered silky hairs 

 (hence the name vela t us). The prickles have a 

 stout base. The leaves are 3 5-lobed, with 3 lobes 

 radiating from a common centre, and 2 lateral. 

 The leaflets have short, shining hairs below, and 

 fairly even, scalloped, toothed margin. The ter- 

 minal leaflet is roundish, inversely egg-shaped, 

 with an enlarged lower side. The panicle is long 

 and cylindrical. The calyx is less deeply cleft 

 than usual, with greenish, narrow sepals clasping 

 the fruit. The stamens exceed the style. The 

 carpels are downy. The plant is intermediate 

 between the Bellaniiani and Cfesil^ distinguished 

 bv the long sepals completely embracing the small 

 fruit. 



Rubus corylifolius, Gm. (sp. coll.). The habitat 

 of this plant is thickets, hedges, and commons. 

 The habit is arching, prostrate. The stem is 

 roundish, with few or no stalked glands and 

 acicles. The prickles are awl-like, nearly equal, 

 irregularly scattered. The leaflets are fairly thick, 

 with felt below, the terminal one with a fairly long 

 stalk. The panicle is rather irregular, with few 

 axillary branches, and white felted rachis. The 

 flower-stalk and sepals are also felted. The ordi- 

 nary stalked glands and acicles are few or absent. 

 The fruiting sepals are turned back in fruit, egg- 

 shaped, with a long narrow point, erect or turned 

 back. The petals are round to egg-shaped. The 

 plant flowers in June till August. It is a shrub. 



Rubus Balfottrianvs, Blox. The habitat of this 

 plant is thickets and hedges. The habit is arching, 

 prostrate. The stem has many fine, silky hairs. 

 The stalked glands are short, fairly numerous, 

 unequally scattered. The leaflets arc thin, hairy 



below, wrinkled above, large. The stipules are 

 rather large. The panicle is spreading, loose, 

 with a wavy rachis, with unequal, scattered, 

 short, stalked glands, the branches few-flowered 

 and straggling. The flowers are usually large, 

 and so is the fruit. The sepals are narrow, erect 

 in fruit, or widespreading. The stamens are 

 short, or equal to the flesh-coloured style. The 

 fruit is handsome, inversely egg-shaped. The 

 plant flowers in July and August. The plant is a 

 shrub. 



Rubus Bucknalli, J. W. White. This species 

 grows luxuriantly in open glades and on the out- 

 skirts of aboriginal woodland, at an elevation of 

 over 600 ft. on oolitic hills. The habit is arching, 

 prostrate. The stem is greyish, densely hairy, the 

 silky hairs curved and wavy, with resinous exuda- 

 tion in the young state. The prickles are nume- 

 rous, scattered, nearly equal, straight, slender, 

 bent down or widespreading. The leaves are 

 made up of 5 leaflets. The leaflets are thick, dull- 

 green, hairy both sides, toothed or lobed, broad, 

 overlapping, heart-shaped below, the terminal one 

 broadly heart-shaped, or egg-shaped, with a long 

 narrow point. The leaf-stalks and midribs are 

 armed with hooked prickles and stalkless minute 

 glands. The stipules are linear, hairy, bristly. 

 The panicle is long, narrow, leafy, with a close, 

 blunt top, and distant, ascend ing, axillary branches, 

 shorter than the leaves. The rachis and flower- 

 stalks are armed with slender prickles, densely 

 hairy, with scattered, stalked glands on upper 

 part. The sepals are egg-shaped, narrow, glan- 

 dular, bent back in fruit. The petals are broad 

 and oval, touching, white. The anther-stalks are 

 white, and exceed the green styles. This bramble 

 is distinguished from R. Balfouriamts by the 

 angular, densely hairy and prickly stem, absence 

 of acicles and stalked glands, the long, narrow, 

 close-topped panicle, and white corolla. 



Dewberry (Rubus c&st'ns, L.). The habitat of 

 the Dewberry is thickets, hedges, damp places. 

 The habit is prostrate. The stem is round, bluish- 

 white. The prickles are weak, short, and awl- 

 like. There are few or no stalked glands and 

 acicles. The leaves are 3-lobed. The leaflets are 

 thin, irregularly cut, and lobed. The stipules are 

 usually very wide in the middle, tapering at both 

 ends. The panicle is loose, with few flowers. 

 The fruiting sepals are clasping, with long points. 

 The drupelets are few, large, bluish-white, and 

 acid. The plant is weak and slender. It fl<>\\rrs 

 in June and July, and is a shrub. 



Stone Bramble (Rubus saxatilis, L.). The 

 habitat of the Stone Bramble is moist woods and 

 rocky thickets, stony mountains. The stem is 

 herbaceous, rooting at the tip, annual. There 

 are few, weak, and scattered, or no prickles, but 

 the plant is hairy, very slender. The leaf is made 

 up of 3 leaflets. The barren stem is whip-like, 

 the flowering stem short, erect, simple, or branched, 

 with acicles, and egg-shaped stipules. The ter- 

 minal shoots form a corymb, with few flowers. 

 The flowers are small. The petals are lance- 

 shaped, erect, white, equalling the sepals. The 



