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SJH-C. Chfir.yti'c. Stem rather round, bearing stout 

 recurved prickles, compressed at the base. Leaf- 

 lets 3 5, pinnately cut, sharply serrate, a little 

 downy beneath. Flowers in loose panicles, 

 white or rose-coloured. Sepals lanceolate, leafy 

 at the tip, tomentose, prickled, reflexed. Petals 

 \\edge-shaped, 3-lobed at the tip. Carpels, 

 roundish, Jark-eoloured. (Dec. I'n>(/.,\\. p. 55*. ) 

 The appearance of this plant is that of Un- 

 common bra'.wLle, except in the leaflets, which, a 

 from their beir.g deeply cut, are strikingly dif- 

 ferent. Where it was first found is unknown ; 

 but it is, in all probability, only a variety of the 

 common bramble, analogous to the cut-leaved 

 variety of the elder (Sambucus nigra laciniata). 

 Plants maybe obtained at the principal nurseries. 



-* 11. R. C.E V SIUS L. The grey Bramble, or Dewberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp.,70(>. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. ; Don's Mill., -2. p. 5.'>3. 



Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t. ^2. ; Hayne Abhild., t. 111). ; Eng. Bot, t. 89& ; and our Jig. 



Spec. Char., $c. Stem trailing, round, in 

 many instances suffused with a grey 

 bloom, bearing slender arid a little re- 

 curved prickles. Leaflets 3 in a leaf, ovate, 

 doubly serrated or crenated, glabrous, or 

 obscurely ciliated. Panicle almost simple. 

 Sepals ovate-acuminate. Petals white. 

 Fruit sweet. Carpels large, few, greyish. 

 (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 558.) 

 Varieties, 



Jc R. c. 2 arvcnsis Wallr. Sched., p. 288. ; 

 R. pseudo-cae\srus IVei/ie, accord- 

 ing to Ern. Meyer in Litt. Leaf- 

 lets tomentose beneath. Branches 

 puberulous. 

 -* 11. c. 3 gmndijlorus Ser. Pubescent. 



Petals and sepals long. 

 Jc 11. cAparvifolutx Wallr. Sched., p. 228.; 

 and our Jig. 455. Stem ascending, 

 purplish, ultimately naked. Leaves small, incisely lobed. Peduncle 

 1 3-flowered. A native of herbage-covered hills. 

 -* R. c. 5fo/ius L'firic<r(}lin llort. has variegated leaves. 



Description, $c. A low, weakly, straggling, prostrate plant, having the 

 flowers with blush-coloured petals, and the fruit small, with few grains ; but 



these large, juicy, black, with a fine glaucous 

 bloom, and very agreeably acid. It is a na- 

 tive of Europe, and the north-cast of Asia, 

 in woods and hedges. By some it has been 

 proposed to be cultivated on account of its 

 _\ fruit. (See Encyc. of Card., ed. 1835, p. 

 ;M6.) This species, or race, varies exceed- 

 7/ ingly in different situations; whence have 

 arisen the following varieties (12 16.), of 

 more marked character than those already 

 given, and which are considered by sonic as 

 species ; in which form they are as follows : 



Jc 12. R. HI'RTUS W. # K. The hairy Bramble. 



Identification. Waldst. and Kit. Plant. Rar. Hung., 2. p. 150. t 141. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 533. 

 Sy/ioni/iHcs. It. villosus Ait., var. {jlatuhiK.sus Ser. in Dec. 1'nxl., '-'. p. 5<w. ; It. glandulosus BcU. Aim. 



/'/. 1'edem , p. -H. ; R. liybridiis nil. Del,,/,., .',. p. 369. 

 Kngravinz. Waldst. and Kit. Plant. Kar. Hung., '2. p. 150. 1. 141. 



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