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lets roundish, ovate, sharply serrated, smooth and even above. Pa- 

 nicle rather lax, racemose. Petals rather large, white, obovate. CaL 

 at length reflexed. Fruit of few perfect grains, deep red, agreeable 

 in flavour, and somewhat resembling that of R. idaus. In habit re- 

 sembling R. roryrifolius f but more upright j leaves having often 

 7 leaflets (never the case with the other two) which are generally 

 more acuminated and smoother on the upper surface, the under- 

 most and upper pair sessile ; the prickles more rare and shorter, 

 the fruit dark red, not purple, And. 



3. R. ccesius (Dew-berry), leaves ternate very pubescent or hairy 

 beneath the lateral ones much lobed externally, stem prickly 

 rounded prostrate glaucous, cal. embracing the fruit. Lightf. 

 p. 264. E. B. /.S26. 



HAB. Under hedges and waste places in the Lowlands, but not very 

 common, Lightf. Between Dalkeith and Perth-head, 9 m. from 

 Edinb., rare, Maugh. Fl. July. I? . 



Stems weak, glaucous -green, subherbaceous. Leaflets rotundato- 

 ovate, cut, slightly lobed at the margin and serrated, the lateral 

 ones with large lobes on the outside. Pet. white or reddish. Fruit 

 rather large, of a few black berries, covered with a blue bloom, of an 

 agreeable subacid flavour. 



4. R. corylifolius (hazel-leaved Bramble), " leaves of about 

 5 ovate leaflets hairy beneath, steins rounded diffuse, with scat- 

 tered nearly straight prickles." And. in Linn. Trans, v. 11. 

 p. 219. E.B.t.S'27. 



HAB. Hedges and borders of fields, occasionally ; banks of the Clyde 

 about Carmyle, Hopk. Hedges and moors, common, D. Don. 

 Rosslyn woods, &c., Mr. Greville. Fl. July. J? . 



Stems very long, trailing (18 20 feet, And.) fragile and spongy, 

 reddish, rarely angled, every where having slender straightish 

 prickles. Lea/tets hairy, soft beneath. Fruit atroviolaceous, hemi- 

 sphserical, of an agreeable acid j berries few, rather large, rounded. 

 Cal. of the fruit reflexed. The only steady mark of distinction be- 

 tween the present plant and R.fruticosus, notwithstanding that their 

 general appearance is so dissimilar, is that in R.fruticosus the 

 prickles are constantly placed on the ridge of the angle or furrow 

 of the stem, whereas those of R. corylifolms, besides being more 

 slender, more numerous and of irregular size, are indiscriminately 

 scattered all over the shoot, which is generally round, rarely angled 

 and more spongy and brittle than R.frutic. And. 



5. R.fruticosus (common Bramble), " leaves of about 5 petiolated 

 leaflets hoary with pubescence beneath, prickly upon the an- 

 gles of the stem, prickles hooked." And. Linn. Trans, v. 1 1. 

 p.. 221. Lightf. p. 264. E. B.t.7\5. 



HAB. Woods and hedges. Frequent about Glasg., Hopk. Mr. Ander- 

 son observes that it is seen in the N. of Britain, and that he never 

 saw it in Aberdeenshire or Perthshire, where it gives place to R. sub- 

 erectus. Fl. July. F? . 



Stems long and very stout, with large and mostly hooked prickle*. 





