XXVI. ROHA^EM : jRU^BUS. 



Sect. III. Potenti'lle^. 

 Genus IX. 



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iJU'BUS L. The Bramble. Lin. Syst. Icosandria Polygynia. 



ent'fication. Lin. Gen., No. 364. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 556. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 59 . 



nont/mes. Ronce, Framboisier, Fr ; Himbeere, Bronibeerstrauch, Ger. 



rivation. From rub, red in Celtic ; In reference to the colour of the fruit in some of the species. 



<en. Char. Calyx flattish at the bottom, 5-cleft. Petals 5. Staviens numerous, 

 I inserted in the calyx along with the petals. Carpels or Achenia numerous, 

 |fleshy, disposed in a head upon an elevated torus. Styles lateral, near the 

 ,apex of the carpel. (Deri's Mill.) 



I Leaves compound, digitate, pinnate or lobed, stipulate, deciduous or sub- 

 evergreen ; with the leaflets usually stalked. Flowers white or pink, in 

 (terminal racemes. Fruit edible. 



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fShrubs, deciduous, subhgneous, with prickly stems ; for the most part pro- 

 late, but a few of them growing upright. Some of them, such as R. fruti- 

 'iius, may be considered as sub-evergeen, as they retain the greater part of 



iiir leaves in a green state through the winter. All the kinds popularly 

 led brambles may be considered as gigantic strawberry plants ; and all 

 ;ir shoots are used by thatchers, and makers of beehives, straw mats, 

 I . No less than 48 supposed species of the genus are described and figured 

 the Rubi Germanici ot Weihe and Nees von Esenbeck. The number of 

 ;cies in English Botany is, in Dr. Lindley's Synopsis of the British Flora, 

 ; which, he says, may be reduced to 5, or possibly to 2, exclusive of the her- 

 eous species. In Doii^s Miller, 147 are given as the total number described by 

 anists. We shall only notice such as are tolerably distinct, and which are in 

 ivation in British gardens. The propagation of the shrubby, or raspberry-like, 

 cies of i?ubus is effected by suckers or seeds ; that of the bramble division ot 

 genus by pegging down the points of the shoots to the soil, when they will 

 t, and throw out other shoots, which may again be pegged down ; so that 

 Its are procured from brambles much in the same way as from strawberries. 



i. Leaves pinnate^ of 3 7 Lea/lets. 

 JOL \. R. subere'ctus Anders. The sub-erect Bramble. 



Jdiification. Anders, in Linn. Soc. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 556. : Don's Mill., 2. p. 534. ; Smith Eng. 



)ra, 2. p. 406. 

 Sijkyrnes. Lindley, in his Si/n. of the Brit. Flora, has given the following : K. nessensis Hall ; 



IjPlicatus W. 4- N., not of Suppl. to Eng. Hot. t. 2714., which is a smaller form of R. afflnis 



4r A'. ; R. corylifBllus Wahlenb. 

 Etyvings. Eng. Bot., t. 2572. ; and oar fig. 527. 



S}i.\ Char., Sfc. Stem erect. Leaf of never more than 5 leaflets, digitate, occa- 

 pnally pinnate, thin, shin- 

 E, and plaited. Flowers in 

 jnple corymbose racemes, 

 'ickles weak. (Lindl.) 

 sub-erect shrub. Britain, 

 I moist woods and by the 

 les of rivulets, chiefly 

 the northern counties. 

 iSms 3 ft. to 4 ft. Flowers 

 (lite ; June to September, 

 flit pale purple ; ripe in 

 |gust. 



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527. niibus sobcrtctus. 



