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The stems are biennial, and flower the second year, like those of the com- 

 mon raspberry, afterwards dying off. The fruit consists of a small number of 

 dark red, or blood-coloured, aggregate grains, agreeably acid, with some fla- 

 vour of the raspberry ;' whence it has been recommended by some as perhaps 

 not unworthy of cuftivation. 



2. R. AFFI'NIS Weihe $ Nees. The related Bramble. 



Identification. Weihe and Nees's Rubi Germanic!, p. 22. t. 3. and 36. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 560. ; 

 Lindl. Synops. Br. Fl., 2d ed. p. 92, 93. 



jnymes. Lindley mentions the following : R. colllnus Dec. ; R. nitidus Snntk 'n Eng. Flor., 

 ' ' s Borrer in Eng. Bat. Suppl. t. 2714. 



and 36. j Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2714. ; and our fig. 528. 



Lindley in Syn. Br. Fl. ed. 1. ; R. plicatus . 

 Engravings. Weihe and Nees's R. G., t. 3. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Stem arched, 



angled, prickly with strong re- 



curved prickles, glabrous. Leaf- 



lets 3 5 in a leaf, ovate with 



a heart-shaped base, cuspidate, 



sharply serrated, flat at the base, 



a lit.tle waved towards the tip, 



having downy tomentum beneath. 



Flowers in a compound panicle, 



the component ones cymose. Se- 



pals ovate-acuminate, externally 



naked, reflexed. Carpels large, 



blue-black. (Dec. Prod.) A low 



bramble. Germany, also of barren 



hills of Montpelier,and of Britain, 



in boggy places. Flowers white ; 



July and August. 

 Variety. 



-* R. a. 2 bracteosus Ser. R. a. y and 8, Weihe and Nees's Rubi Germ. 

 t. 3. b. Bracteas very broad, undivided. 



& 3. R. MICRA'XTHUS D. Don. The small-flowered Bramble. 



Identification. Don Prod. Fl. Nepal p 235 Dec 



Prod., 2. p, 557. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 530. 

 Synonyme. R. paucifldrus Lindley in Bot. Reg., Hort. 



528. flubus affinis. 



rus 

 to the 



Engravings. Bot. Reg., (. 854., as R. pauciflb 

 Lindl. ; and our fig. 529. representing a sprig to 

 usual scale, and figs. 530. and 531 . representing the 

 flowers and fruit of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., $c. Upright. Stem round, 



branched, and bearing awl-shaped in- 



flexed prickles, or straight prickles, and 



the branches recurved ones. Young 



branchlets rather glaucous at the ex- 



tremity. Leaf pinnate, of 5 7 leaflets, 



that are ovate or oblong, mucronate, 



doubly serrated, plaited; green and glossy 



above ; whitishly tomentose, or else glau- 



cous, beneath. Petiole and ruchis bear- 



ing prickles here and there. Petiole pilose. Stipules 



lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous. Flowers 



small, reddish purple, disposed in a 



corymbose panicle. Petals clawed, 



shorter than the sepals. (Dec. Prod.) 



A gigantic bramble. Nepal. Stems 



8ft. to 20 ft. Introd. 1822. Flowers 



bright reddish purple ; May to August. 



Fruit black; ripe in August. Naked 



young wood of a dark mahogany colour. 63 i. . niio . 



52'J, Kubus micr&iithus. 



