CHAP. XLII. 



ROSA^CEJE. fllTBUS. 



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are ripened before those of 7?. fruticosus and r.^wNfc 457 



its allies. The young shoots of the current 



year sometimes take root at the extremity; 



and country nurses and quacks formerly used 



to pretend to cure children of the hooping- 

 cough, by drawing them through the arch thus 



formed by the stem. (Eng. Bot., ii. p. 409.) 

 According to Dr. Lindley, the following 



British kinds of jRubus may be associated 



with R. corylifolius Smith, either as related 



species, or as varieties : 



R. niacrop/ii/llus Weihe & Nees, Eng. Bot. 

 Suppl., t. 2625. The large-leaved Bramble. 



R. carpinifolius Weihe & Nees. The Horn- 

 beam-leaved Bramble. 



R. ficsco-ater Weihe & Nees. The brownish- 

 black Bramble. 



R. K&hleri. Weihe $ Nees ; Eng. Bot. Suppl., 

 t. 2605. ; R. pallidus Weihe $ Nees, ac- 

 cording to Lindley's Sun. Holder's Bramble. 



R. glandufbsus Smith. The glandulous-brist\ed Bramble. 



R. rudis Weihe & Nees; R. echinatus of ed. 1. of Lindl. Synops., and our 

 H. B., No. 28335. The rough Bramble. 



R. diversifolius Lindl. Synops., ed. 1.; R. diversifolius Weihe, Hort. Brit., 

 No. 28330. The diverse-leaved Bramble. 

 Dr. Lindley has given brief distinctive characters of each of these kinds in 



his Synopsis of the British Flora, ed. 2. ; to which work, and to our Hortus 



Britannicus, the reader is referred for more particulars respecting them. 

 * 18. R. (c.) AGRE'STIS Waldst. fyKit. The Field Bramble. 



Identification. Waldst. and Kit. Plant Rar. Hung., 3. p. 297. 1 268. ; Dec, Prod., 2. p. 559. ; Don's 



Mill, 2. p. 533. 



Engraving. Waldst and Kit. Plant. Rar. Hung., 3. t 268. 

 Spec. Char., tyc. Stems suffruticose, procumbent, indistinctly angled, with straight, bristle-like 



prickles. Leaflets 3 5, roundish, lobed in a dentated manner, unequally serrated, hairy above, 



tomentose beneath. Calyx whitely tomentose and hispid, with glanded hairs. (Dec. Prod., ii. 



p. 559.) A native of long neglected fields of Hungary and Transylvania. Seringe asks whether it 



may not be a variety of R. tomentbsus, or rather of R. corylifolius. 



19. R. SPECTA'BILIS Ph. The showy -flowered Bramble. 



Identification. Ph. Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 348. t 16. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 559. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 533. 



Synonynie. R. ri&fblius Willd. Herb., according to Steven. 



Engravings. Ph. Fl. Amer. Sept., t 16. ; Bot Reg., t. 1424. ; Bot Cab., t. 1602. ; and our fig. 458. 



Spec. Char., $c. Stem not bearing prickles, glabrous. Leaf 

 of three leaflets, that are ovate, acute, doubly and unequally 

 serrated, downy beneath. Flowers of ^ ,, 

 an agreeable purplish colour, produced 

 singly on terminal peduncles. Sepals 

 oblong, rather abruptly acuminate, 

 shorter than the petals. (Dec. Prod.,u. 

 p. 559.) An elegant shrubby bramble, 

 growing to the height of 4 ft. or 5 ft., 

 with subflexuose, round, smooth 

 branches, and large dark-purple odo- 

 riferous flowers, which appear in April and May, and are succeeded by large 

 dark-yellow fruit, of an acid and somewhat astringent taste, which make ex- 

 cellent tarts. It is a native of North America, on the banks of the Colum- 

 bia, and was introduced in 1827 by Mr. Douglas. It merits a place in, 

 every collection, both as a flowering shrub, and for its fruit. 



* 20. R. /LMIFO N LIUS Sckott. The Elm-leaved Bramble. 



Identification. Schott in Jsis, 1818, fasc. 5. p. 821. ; Lk. Enum., 2. p. 61. ; Dec. Prod., 2, p. 560. ; 

 Don's Mill., 2. p. 534. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Stem decumbent, very prickly, frutescent Branches very red. Leaflets 3 5, 

 oval, rather heart-shaped, acutely and doubly crenated, tomentose beneath, without prickles. 

 Flowers of a beautiful rose colour. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 560.) A native of Gibraltar, on the moun- 

 tains ; said to have been introduced in 1823. It flowers from June to September. 



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