722 KUBDS. [CLASS XII. OIJDER III. 



i. p. 246. — R. nitidus, Weihe and Nees. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 

 405. — R. affinis, Weihe and Nees. — Liudley, Synopsis, p. 92. 



This, which is by no means an uncommon plant, we had regarded 

 as only a variety of the last species ; but Mr. Borrer, who has devoted 

 much time to the study of this genus, remarks in the English Botany 

 Supp. that " Sir J. E. Smith was misled to give it as R. nitidus, of 

 Weihe and Nees, by the writer of the present article, who, when the 

 first edition of Hooker's British Flora was published, regarded it, 

 J?, plicatus of the German authors, as a mere variety of R, sub- 

 erectus. This last opinion also he has been led to abandon by the 

 remarks of our friend Mr. W. Wilson, who has carefully availed him- 

 self of his opportunities of studying R. suherectus in its wild state. He 

 contirms the statements of Anderson and Smith, that the leaves on the 

 young stems of that plant are often pinnate, and that the truly ripe 

 fruit is not black, but deep red, ' the colour of a ripe Morello cherry." 

 In R. plicatus the fruit, whilst ripening, is as in R. suherectus, of a 

 beautiful bright red; but it is perfectly black when ripe, and the leaves 

 are never pinnate : the stalks also of the lower pair of leaflets, although 

 short, are more perceptible than in R. suherectus ; and these differ- 

 ences, in addition to the essential one of curved, not setaceous, and 

 larger and more numerous, although still small and sparingly scat- 

 tered prickles, seem to warrant the separation. In R. suherectus \\\q 

 panicle is usually unarmed ; in R. plicatus rather copiously prickly." 



Habitat. — " Forest districts of Sussex, iu heathy and somewhat 

 boggy places chiefly on the banks of streams, not rare. — Mr. Borrer. 

 Near Clady and Kilrea, County of Derry, Ireland. . Mr. Moore. 



Shrub ; flowering from June to August. 



b. Stem arched or prostrate , rooting. 



4. R. carpinifo'lius, Weihe and Nees. (Fig. 818.) Horn-beam leaved 

 Bramble. Stem arched, somewhat angled and furrowed, hairy ; 

 prickles numerous, uniform, deflexed, curved ; leaves digitate, of five 

 stalked ovate acuminate inciso-serrate leaflets, paler beneath ; panicle 

 long, compound, hairy. 



Borrer in English Botany Supp. t. 2664. — Hooker, British Flora, 

 ed. 3. vol. i. p. 247. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 93. 



Stem decumbent, or arched, several feet long, obtusely angled, and 

 slightly furrowed, clothed with soft hairs, but without any stalked 

 glands amongst them, of a dark purple colour. Prickles numerous, 

 arising from the angles of the stem, not very large, mostly deflexed, 

 and somewhat curved, dark at the base, pale yellow towards the point, 

 those on the panicle and leafstalks smaller, very slender, more strongly 

 hooked. Leaves with the common footstalk stout, obtusely angular, 

 with a pair of slender linear stipules at the base. Leaflets on short 

 stalks, three on the flowering branches, five on the stem, ovate, with an 

 acuminate point, somewhat cordate at the base, and more or less cut 

 and irregularly serrated on the margins, dark dull green above, smooth, 



