88 ROSACES. [Rubus. 



verted. Mostly herbaceous plants, very seldom shrubs; leaves 

 usually compound ; stipulse adhering to the petiole. 



3. RUB us. Linn. Bramble. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5. Fruit superior, of several-seeded 

 juicy drupes, placed upon a protuberant spongy receptacle.* 

 Name of uncertain origin ; perhaps from the Latin ruber, 

 or the Celtic, rub, red. Icosandria Polygynia. 



jje Leaves pinnate. 



1. R. ideeus, Linn. Raspberry. Leaves pinnate, with five 

 or three leaflets white and very downy beneath ; footstalks chan- 

 nelled ; stems nearly erect, downy and prickly ; flowers droop- 

 ing; petals as short as the calyx. Br. Ft. 1. p. 245. E. Fl. v. 

 ii. p. 407. E. Bot. t. 2443. 



Woods, ditch banks, and elevated subalpine cliffs, especially in the 

 northern counties. Devil's Glen, County of Wicklow. On the side of 

 the road called the Path, between Larne and Glenarm, and on elevated 

 rocky hills near Florencecourt, County of Fermanagh. Fl. May, 

 June. 1? . Stem woody. Leaflets somewhat cut and serrated. Fruit 

 scarlet, in a wild state. 



* * Leaves digitate or pedate. 



1 . Stem (mostly) biennial, woody. 



a. nearly erect, not rooting. 



2. R. suberectus, Anderson. Upright Bramble. Stem nearly 

 erect, not rooting, obsoletely angular; prickles uniform, few, 

 small; leaves digitate, quinate; leaflets flexible, lower pair ses- 

 sile or nearly so ; panicle simple. And. in Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. xi. 

 p. 218. t. 16. Br. Fl. 1. p. 244. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 406. E. Bot. 

 t. 2572. 



ft. Prickles more numerous and rather larger. R. plicatus, 

 W.andN.t. 1. E. Bot. Suvpl. t. 2714. R. nitidus t E. Fl. p. 

 404. 



At the upper end of Sir Francis M'Naghten's Deer Park, Nevv- 

 townlimavady, and other places in the County of Derry ; Mr. D. 

 Moore. County of Cork ; Mr. J. Drummond. Near Headford, 

 County of Galway ; Mr. Shuttleworth. <3. Near Clady and Kilrea, 



* The descriptions of the species in this difficult genus, as well as those of the 

 roses, are mostly taken from Hooker's British Flora, and were chiefly drawn up 

 by Mr. Borrer, to whom Mr. Moore sent specimens of the more doubtful 

 pecies and had his opinion of them. 



