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BRITISH FLORA 



pale felt below, with deeply-cut, compound teeth, 

 the terminal leaflet oval, or egg-shaped, with a 

 long, narrow point. The panicle is long, the ultra- 

 axillary part cylindrical above, weakly armed, the 

 lower branches with sickle -like prickles. The 

 calyx is hairy and felted. The flowers are showy, 

 the fruit fine. The panicle and foliage are excep- 

 tionally fine. The plant flowers in July and August, 

 and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus Godroni, Lecoq. & Lamotte = argentatus, 



auct. The habitat of this species is wood borders, 



bushy places, and hedges. The habit is high- 

 arching at first, then climbing, or bending low 

 and rooting. The stem is pruinose below, hairy. 

 The prickles on stem and panicle are long and 

 rather unequal, straight or sickle-like. The leaf- 

 lets are rather leathery, shining above, greenish, 

 white-felted, with shining hairs below, 5-lobed, 

 finger-shaped, or with lobes arising from a common 

 centre with lateral leaflets, the terminal leaflet 

 with rounded or nearly heart-shaped base. The 

 panicle is loose, pyramidal, narrowed above. The 

 rachis and flower-stalk are felted, with thick, soft 

 hair. The flowers are showy, with long flower- 

 stalk, bright-pink flowers, the sepals with yellowish- 

 grey felt, and hairs loosely turned back. The 

 pink stamens are much longer than the green 

 styles. The plant flowers late. 



Rubus rusticanus, Merc. This species is found 

 in thickets and hedges, in open ground, at low 

 altitude, and by the sea-coast, being especially 

 common on the East coast. The habit is arching, 

 prostrate, climbing, rooting. The stem is fur- 

 rowed, pruinose, stellately downy. The prickles 

 have a very wide base. The leaflets are leathery, 

 oval, or inversely egg-shaped, convex, with close, 

 white-felted down below, and the terminal leaflet 

 is inversely egg-shaped, with a blunt point. The 

 panicle is long, narrow, cylindrical. The rachis 

 is furrowed, with strong, stout-based, hooked, and 

 sickle-like prickles. The flower-stalks are also 

 felted and hooked. The stamens are equal to or 

 less than the style. The sepals in flower and fruit 

 are turned back. The plant flowers in July and 

 August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus pubescens, Weihe. The habit of this 

 Rubus is high-arching at first, then low and root- 

 ing, the stem having a rather thick coat of short 

 stellate down. The leaves are 5-lobed, finger- 

 shaped, the leaflets with irregular shallow teeth, 

 grey or greenish, white-felted below, oval or in- 

 versely egg-shaped, with a long, narrow point, the 

 terminal one with an entire base. The panicle is 

 rather loose, long, felted, hairy, with widespread- 

 ing few-flowered branches, and strong hooked or 

 sickle-like prickles on the branches. The sepals 

 have an upwardly-curved tip. The plant is inter- 

 mediate between R. thyrsoideus and R. rusticanus. 



Rubus sylvaticus, Wh. & N. This is an un- 

 common species found in woods, thickets, by 

 bushy river sides. The habit is arching, pros- 

 trate, rarely climbing. The prickles are short, 

 crowded near the base of the stem, awl-shaped. 

 The leaves are 5-lobed. The leaflets are hairy 

 both sides, the terminal one slightly inversely egg- 



shaped, or oval, with entire or notched base. 

 The panicle is dense, long, with small, crowded, 

 needle-like prickles, and softly hairy rachis and 

 flower- stalk. It is not glandular. The fruiting 

 sepals are loosely turned back. The carpels are 

 hairy. The plant is like R. macrophyllus in the 

 small prickles and hairy character, and also like 

 R. uillicaulis and R. Lindleianus, but less prickly 

 and more softly downy than either. 



Rubus myricce, Focke = var. hesperius, Rogers. 

 The leaves of this species are broad, 5-lobed, 

 with 3 lobes radiating from a common centre, and 

 2 lateral ones, with very compound finely-pointed 

 teeth, the terminal leaflet roundish, egg-shaped, 

 with a long narrow point. The panicle is more 

 compound than in the type (not found in Britain), 

 more prickly, with many sunk, nearly stalkless, 

 glands on the rachis, the panicle being long, 

 pyramidal, and compound. The fruiting sepals 

 are widespreading. The plant is like R. svlva- 

 ticus and R. hirtifolius. 



Rubus lentiginosus, Lees. The habitat of this 

 species is rough, rocky, and bushy ground. The 

 habit is arching, prostrate. There are numerous 

 prickles. The leaves are 3-5-lobed, with finely 

 pointed, compound, deeply-cut teeth, thinly hairy 

 only on the nerves beneath, the terminal one oblong 

 or inversely egg-shaped, with rather narrow, 

 notched base. The panicle is rigid above, blunt, 

 forming a raceme, with 1-2 long-stalked flowers, 

 widespreading branches, and nearly stalkless 

 terminal flowers. The prickles are crowded on 

 the rachis and flower - stalks; turned down or 

 shortly hooked. The sepals are erect in fruit. 

 The stamens and style are nearly of the same 

 length. The fruit is oblong. The plant differs in 

 habit from R. nitidus, approaching R. Colemanni 

 and R. Questierii. The form of the panicle is very 

 characteristic. 



Rubus macrophyllus, Wh. & N. The habitat 

 of this plant is woods and thickets, and it appears 

 to thrive in the shade. The habit is arching, pros- 

 trate, climbing, much-branched. The leaves are 

 5-lobed, finger-shaped, often very large. The leaf- 

 lets are smooth above, softly hairy below, doubly 

 and widely toothed, the terminal leaflet oval to 

 heart-shaped, with a long narrow point. The 

 panicle is loose, normally weak, with grey felt, 

 and a hairy rachis, and flower-stalk, with weak, 

 turned-down, or rather sickle-like prickles. The 

 lower branches are very distant. The sepals are 

 shaggy, with grey felt below, strongly bent back. 

 The flowers are of medium size. The carpels are 

 smooth. The plant flowers in July and August, 

 and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus amphichloros, P. J. Muell. The leaves 

 of this species are 3~5-lobed, finely and evenly 

 toothed. The terminal leaflet is roundish to oval. 

 The panicle is long and loose. The sepals are 

 loosely turned back. Dr. Focke regards it as 

 distinct from R. amplificatus by the shape or 

 rounded outline and fine toothing of the leaflets. 



Rubus Questierii, Lefv. & Muell. The habitat 

 of this species is woods and thickets in rough 

 rocky ground. The leaves are 5-lobed, finger- 



