202 BRAMBLE, RASPBERRY, ETC. 



into numerous forms impossible to define here. The 

 ordinary long shoots are flung over hedges, &c. in large 

 arcuate sweeping curves, and are green touched with red 

 and violet, passing to grey. The suckers are straight and 

 erect, weak, and full of pith. There are commonly two 

 prickles near together beneath each node. Leaf-bases 

 not prominent. Buds closely imbricate. 



Other species of Rosa are, R. rubiginosa, Sweet Briar, 

 Eglantine, with curved prickles and glandular hairs ; and 

 R. arvensis, Field Rose, much like R. canina but more 

 trailing, &c. 



tt Buds long, pointed, with loosely imbricated 

 hairy scales; twigs angular; leaf-base pro- 

 jecting and scar oval. 



Rubus fruticosus, L. Blackberry, Bramble (Fig. 103). 

 Here, again, the species is cut up by specialists into nu- 

 merous sub-species and varieties impossible of treatment 

 here. The long arcuate shoots are flung over hedges, &c., 

 and frequently root at the tips, and are green touched with 

 violet-brown or red. There are sometimes two buds in 

 the axil, and the subulate stipules may remain attached 

 to the leaf-base. In some cases the leaves remain through- 

 out the winter, and the plant is sub-evergreen. 



Rubus Idceus, the Raspberry (Fig. 104), has thinner, 

 more rounded and erect shoots, with thinner and straighter 

 prickles, or none, and touched with a bluish bloom. Buds 

 greenish to olive-brown, standing out on projecting leaf- 

 bases, bearing narrow crescentic leaf-scars, showing 3 leaf- 

 traces. Bud-scales keeled and ciliate. There are often 

 2 buds superposed, the upper dominant. Twigs often 

 contorted and striate, rounded, tawny yellow to greenish 

 brown or olive. 



** Prickles straight or nearly so, mingled 

 with bristles and glandular hairs. 



