WOODS AND COPSES 



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Rubus Babingtonii, Bell Salt. The habitat of 

 this plant is open woods, bushy places, and 

 commons. The habit is arching, prostrate. The 

 stem has many widespreading, clustered, and 

 single hairs. The stem is fuscous, and so are the 

 unequal prickles. The large ones are numerous 

 and fairly strong, with a slender yellow point. 

 The leaflets are thick, softly hairy below. The 

 terminal leaflet is rather broad, oblong, oval, with 

 a fairly long, narrow, blunt point. The panicle is 

 broad, usually very large, long, broadly cylindrical 

 to blunt, with strong sickle-like prickles, and 

 several simple leaves, the branches mostly equal, 

 widespreading. The rachis and flower-stalk have 

 a dense, soft felt. The sepals are clothed ex- 

 ternally with long yellowish-grey hair, rising as 

 the fruit forms. The stamens are only just longer 

 than the style. The plant is characterized by the 

 soft hair on the stem and rachis, the thick, broad, 

 soft leaflets, long, cylindrical, blunt panicle, with 

 widespreading branches. The plant flowers in 

 July and August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus Lejeunei, Wh. and N. The habitat of 

 this plant is woods and hedges. The habit is 

 arching, prostrate. The prickles on the angles 

 of the stem are slender. The leaves are 3-4-lobed. 

 The leaflets are bright green, thin, hairy below, 

 the terminal one inversely egg-shaped, and rhomb- 

 oidal. The panicle is loosely pyramidal, form- 

 ing a corymb, with slender, unequal armature. 

 The rachis and flower-stalk have scattered, un- 

 equal, stalked glands, and a few gland-tipped 

 bristles. The prickles are slender. The sepals 

 are bent back, with close greenish-grey felt, and 

 many protruding stalked glands and acicles. The 

 plant flowers in July and August, and is a 

 deciduous shrub. 



Rubtis ericetorum, Lefv. The habitat of this 

 plant is woods, thickets, and commons. This 

 species is near the last, but is stronger armed and 

 more glandular. The stem is strong and sharply 

 angled, with stouter, longer prickles on the angles. 

 The leaves are 5-lobed, the leaflets have a longer, 

 narrow point, with grey felt below, and deeply cut 

 teeth. The panicle is very long, pyramidal, form- 

 ing a corymb, more prickly and glandular. The 

 petals are narrow, white or pink. The rachis and 

 flower-stalk are densely glandular and aciculate. 

 The sepals have a soft cushion of grey felt hiding 

 the purplish glands. The plant is distinguished 

 from R. Babingtonii by the more unequal arma- 

 ture, thinner, inversely egg-shaped, grey-felted 

 leaves, and pyramidal, loose panicle, with bent- 

 back, fruiting sepals, long stamens, and short 

 loose hair on rachis and flower-stalk. 



Rubus cavatifolius, P. J. Muell. The habitat of 

 this plant is bushy places, hedges, and thickets. 

 The stem is nearly smooth, and pale or reddish 

 brown, like the unequal prickles. The leaflets are 

 yellowish-green, the terminal one very broadly 

 heart-shaped to egg-shaped, with a long narrow 

 point. The panicle is nearly cylindrical, with 

 slightly narrow, blunt top, the branches wide- 

 spreading, with many narrow, simple leaves. The 

 plant is recognized by the pale-yellowish, heart- 



shaped, egg-shaped terminal leaflet, with long 

 point, and spreading branches. The plant flowers 

 in July and August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus mutabilis, Genev. The habitat of this 

 plant is bushy places. The habit is arching, 

 prostrate. The prickles are large and numerous, 

 often sickle-like. The leaflets are very long and 

 narrow, deeply cut, with close white or grey felt 

 below, the terminal one narrowed both ends, with 

 very long, narrow point, inversely egg-shaped, the 

 basal leaflet stalked, not overlapping. The panicle 

 is strongly developed, very large, nearly cylin- 

 drical. The rachis and flower-stalks have crowded 

 sunken glands, acicles, and long prickles. The 

 sepals are bent back. The plant resembles R. 

 echinatus and R. pallidus, Wh. and N. It flowers 

 in July and August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Jfubits Bloxamii, Lees. The habitat of this 

 plant is woods, bushy places, and heaths. The 

 habit is arching, soon prostrate, the stem bluish- 

 green, hairy. The larger prickles are rather 

 weak, small, widespreading, purplish-red. The 

 terminal leaflet is broadly inversely egg-shaped, 

 the leaflets convex, coarsely toothed, green, softly 

 hairy both sides, wavy at the edge, the teeth lobed, 

 deeply cut above. The panicle is long, leafy to 

 the top, broadly pyramidal, round-topped, with 

 long, ascending, distant lower branches. The 

 rachis and flower-stalks are straight, stout, densely 

 softly felted. The sepals are white-felted within, 

 widespreading, and star-like when the petals fall. 

 The carpels are very small. The species flowers 

 in July and August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubus fuscus, Wh. & N. The habitat of this 

 plant is woods and open places. The habit is 

 arching, prostrate. The stem is densely hairy. 

 The prickles are rather short, scattered. The 

 leaflets have compound, irregular, coarse teeth, 

 and are softly hairy below, the terminal one rather 

 broad, with a long point. The panicle is narrow, 

 nearly cylindrical, with nearly equal few-flowered 

 branches, with sunken stalked glands and acicles. 

 The plant flowers in July and August, and is a 

 deciduous shrub. 



Ritbus pallidus, Wh. & N. The habitat of 

 this species is hilly woods, thickets, and hedges. 

 The habit is arching, prostrate, the stem with 

 prickles usually confined to the angles, with 

 abundant, rather short, somewhat spreading hair. 

 The leaflets are long and narrow, thin, often 

 slightly felted, and soft beneath, coarsely and 

 irregularly toothed, with a long narrow point. 

 The panicle is loose, rather straggly, the upper 

 leaves narrowly egg-shaped, with a long point or 

 linear, the rachis wavy, the flower-stalk slender, 

 the terminal one of the branches often longer than 

 the lateral ones. The glands are stalked, black, 

 and the acicles small. The sepals on the unripe 

 fruit are turned back. The plant flowers in July 

 and August, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rubns scaber, Wh. & N. The habitat of this 

 plant is open woods, bushy places, and damp 

 hollows. The habit is arching, prostrate, the stem 

 round, bluish-green, downy, the prickles small, 

 strong, short, bent down, rough with small acicles, 



