WOODS AND COPSES 



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Rubus mucronatus, Bloxam. The habitat of 

 this plant is bushy places, hedges, heaths, and 

 banks. The habit is arching-, prostrate. The 

 stem is nearly round. The prickles are very 

 slender. The leaflets are thin, with simple, shallow 

 teeth, rather thinly hairy below, the terminal 

 rounded, inversely egg-shaped, with a short, 

 abrupt, blunt point. The panicle is very loose 

 below, forming a raceme above, with long, wide- 

 spreading to erect flower-stalks, with rather few, 

 very slender, turned-down prickles, and slender, 

 unequal acicles, bristles, and stalked glands. The 

 plant flowers in July and August, and is a decid- 

 uous shrub. 



Rubus mucronatoides, Ley. This Scottish plant 

 is stouter than the last. The habit is low, arched. 

 The stem is angled, with few hairs and acicles. 

 The armature is stronger, and more unequal, 

 both on the stem and rachis. The leaves are 

 3-5-lobed. The leaflets are large, with the ter- 

 minal leaflet with a long narrow point, and partly 

 lobed, coarsely toothed. The panicle is pyramidal, 

 broad, straggling, and the rachis is wavy, with 

 many unequal prickles. The large flowers are 

 cup-shaped, the narrow petals rose colour, the 

 stamens white, the sepals reflexed in flower and 

 fruit. 



Rubus Gelertii, Frider. The habitat of this 

 species is woods. The habit is arching, prostrate. 

 The stem is stout. The prickles are long, nearly 

 equal, confined to the angles. The leaflets are 

 almost leathery, large, coarsely and irregularly 

 toothed, the terminal one broadly oval, with a long 

 narrow point and heart-shaped base. The panicle 

 is strongly developed, very compound, with large 

 broad leaves, with a round-topped, ultra-axil- 

 lary part, with long, distant, strongly-ascending 

 branches like the secondary panicle below. The 

 rachis and flower-stalk have dense, grey felt, few 

 or many acicles, and short-stalked glands. The 

 sepals are reflexed in flower and fruit. The plant 

 is intermediate between R. pulcherrimus and R. 

 anglosaxonicus, but the leaflets are broader and 

 not so parallel-sided as in the latter. 



Rubus anglosaxonicus, Gelert. The habitat of 

 this species is bushy places and hedges. The stem 

 is smooth, shining as if varnished, with numerous, 

 scattered pricklets. The prickles are strong. The 

 leaves are 3-5-lobed, with 3 lobes radiating from 

 a common centre and 2 laterals. The leaflets are 

 thick, leathery, coarsely and irregularly toothed, 

 with a grey felt below, the terminal leaflet long, 

 narrow, oval, with nearly parallel sides, a short 

 point, and notched base. The panicle is narrow 

 above, with strongly ascending i-3-flowered 

 branches, the axillary leaves large. 



Ritbns melanoxylon, Muell. & Wirtg. The 

 habitat of this species is moist bushy places and 

 heaths. The stem and panicle rachis have a 

 blackish-bro%vn or dark-purple bloom. The arma- 

 ture is partly strong but very variable, some prickles 

 being stout-based. The leaflets have close, even 

 teeth, the terminal one narrowed to a short point, 

 evenly toothed. The panicle is long, nearly cy- 

 lindrical. The rachis has very unequal acicles, 



bristles, and stalked glands, the largest prickles 

 long, and strongly bent down. The plant re- 

 sembles R. mucronatus, R. uillicaulis, and R. 

 rosaceus, 



Rubus infestus, Weihe. The habitat of this 

 plant is thickets and hedges. The habit is high- 

 arching, then bent down. The stem has mixed 

 prickles, bent down, sickle-like, and hooked. The 

 pricklets, acicles, and stalked glands on the faces 

 are unequal, the prickles on the angles strong, 

 nearly equal, long-pointed, very stout-based, sickle- 

 like, and bent down. The leaflets are pale, often 

 felted below, sharply and unevenly toothed, the 

 terminal one egg-shaped, with a long point, the 

 basal one very shortly stalked. The rachis is very 

 strongly armed, the prickles more hooked, the 

 smaller arms more glandular. The sepals are 

 greyish-olive, with a white margin, widespread- 

 ing or erect in fruit. The plant recalls the Sub- 

 erecti group. 



Rubus unctnatus, P. J. Muell. This plant is 

 only found in woods. The armature is slender, 

 both prickles and pricklets, which are bent down. 

 The leaflets are thin, usually softly hairy, with a 

 grey felt below, the terminal one nearly wedge- 

 shaped, inversely egg-shaped. The stalks and 

 midribs have slender, sickle-like, and hooked 

 prickles. The panicle is very hairy, narrow, and 

 cylindrical. The rachis and flower -stalk are 

 densely, softly hairy, with many nearly sunk 

 stalked glands, and crowded acicular, sickle-like, 

 hooked, and bent-down prickles. The sepals are 

 narrow, and bent back. The plant resembles R. 

 infestus. 



Rubus Borreri, Bell Salt. The habitat of this 

 plant is hedges and commons. The habit is nearly 

 prostrate. The stem is long, yellowish-brown. 

 The prickles are very crowded. The pricklets, 

 acicles, and stalked glands are most numerous 

 below, the two last small. The leaflets are opaque 

 above, yellowish-green, paler below, soft, with 

 prominent ribs, with compound, finely -pointed, 

 deeply-incised teeth, the terminal leaflet inversely 

 egg-shaped, with a long narrow blunt point. The 

 panicle is strongly developed, with a broad, round 

 top, forming a corymb, with many unequal, sunk, 

 nearly stalkless glands, and yellowish prickles. 

 The plant is quite distinct from R. Sprengelii, and 

 nearest R. infestus, distinguished by the prostrate 

 stem, nearly equal prickles, terminal leaflet, broad 

 panicle, and yellow tint. 



Rubus Drejeri, G. Jensen. The habitat of this 

 plant is wood borders, thickets, and hedges. The 

 stem is hairy, dull-brown. The leaves are 3-5- 

 lobed, the same colour on both sides. The pricklets, 

 acicles, and stalked glands are unequally scattered 

 and of various lengths. The prickles are unequal. 

 The leaflets are thin, with irregular, shallow teeth, 

 shortly pointed, roundish, inversely egg-shaped, 

 harsh beneath. The lateral leaflets of the 3-lobed 

 leaves are enlarged. The panicle is long, narrow, 

 loose. The rachis is wavy, with soft-haired felt. 

 The prickles are various, chiefly bent down. The 

 plant is allied to R. melanoxylon and R. podo- 

 phyllus. 



