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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



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 cultivation. 



2. R. affi'nis Weike ^- Nees. The related Bramble. 



IdentMcation. Weihe and Nees's Rubi Germanici, p. 22. t. 3. and 36. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 560. ; 



Lindl. Synops. Br. Fl., 2d ed. p. 92, S3. 

 Synonymes. Lindley mentions the following : R. collinus Dec. ; R. nitidus Smith, -n Eng. Flor., 



Lindley in Sijn. Br. FL ed. 1. ; R. plicatus Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2714. 

 Engravings. Weihe and Nees's R. G., t. 3. and 36. ; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2714. ; and our^. 528. 



Spec. Char., S^c. 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 little waved towards the tip, 

 having downy tomentum beneath. 

 Flowers in a compound panicle, 

 the com|)onent ones cymose. Se- 

 pals ovate-acuminate, externally 

 naked, reflexed. Carpels large, 

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

 bramble. Germany, also of barren 

 hills of Montpeher,and of Britain, 

 in boggy places. Flowers white ; 

 July and August. 



Varietj/. 



-* R. a. 2 bracteoms Ser. R. a. y and 5, Weihe and Nees's Rubi Genu. 

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



^ 3. R. micra'xthus D. Bon. The small-flowered Bramble. 



Jdentification. Don Prod. Fl. Nepal., p. 235. ; Dec. 



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

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



Brit. n. 13.'i(iO. 

 Engravi7igs. Bot. Reg., t. 854., as R. pauciflbrus 



Lindl. ; and om Jig. 529. representing a spri? to the 



usual scale, and Jigs. 530. and .531. representing the > 



flowers and fruit of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., S^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 ; whiti-shly tomentose, or else glau- 

 cous, beneath. Petiole and rachis bear- 



528. Ribus affinis. 



b'Vi. Kiibus micrkiithu!. 



47-1. Nlibus micrknthus. 



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 



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



liright reddish purple ; May to August. 



Fruit black ; ripe in August. Naked 



young wood of a dark mahogany colour. 



531. H- niic 



