CLASS xir. ORDER in.] nuBUS. 723 



or scattered over with bairs, especially along the course of the ribs, the 

 under side paler, more hairy, strongly marked with prominent ribs, 

 those on the flowering stems white. Flowers pinkish, in long narrow 

 panicles, sometimes short and compact, the branches divided, or occa- 

 sionally the panicle is almost simple, the branches are clothed with 

 close pubescence, sometimes bearing bristles also, and mostly nume- 

 rous slender prickles, nearly straight. Calyx with ovate pointed 

 downy segments, scarcely rcflexed. Stamens with slender filaments 

 and dark purple aw//te?s. Fruit small, of a few globose loose grains, 

 rarely all formed into a perfect berry. 



Habitat. — Hedges and bushy places ; Sussex, Cheshire, Lancashire, 

 North Wales. — Mr. W. Wilson. Lincolnshire. 

 Shrub ; flowering in July and August. 



This species it is probable is not a very uncommon one, but may be 

 mistaken for the following species, R. macrophi/llus, and Ji. leuco- 

 stachys ; but, as Mr. Borrer observes, it "more resembles in habit 

 some of the varieties of 72. Koehleri, from all of which it diflersde- 

 cidedly, however, by the total absence of acicular prickles and small 

 glands on the stems ;" and Lindley says it is the R. leucorstachys form 

 of R. corylifolius. 



5. R. rhamnifo'lius, Weihe and Nees. (Fig. 819.) Buckthorn-leaved 

 Bramble. Stem arched, obtusely angular, and furrowed, downy, with 

 straight horizontal or deflexed prickles ; leaves digitate, of five stalked 

 roundish or ovate leaflets, rugose, pale and hoary beneath ; panicle 

 repeatedly compound, spreading, and somewhat downy. 



Borrer in English Botany Supp. t. 2604. — English Flora, vol. ii. 

 p. 402.— Hooker, British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 248.— Lindley, 

 Synopsis, p. 92. 



Stem obtusely angular, almost round, sometimes slightly furrowed, 

 smooth, or scattered over with soft hairs, occasionally a few seta, and 

 sometimes a few glands, generally of a pinkish colour on the exposed 

 side, and the young branches green, not glaucous. Prickles scattered, 

 not very numerous, chiefly on the angles of the stem, nearly straight, 

 horizontal, or deflexed, rarely hooked, slender, and not much dilated 

 at the base. Leaves with the common footstalk rather long, and 

 stout, scarcely channeled or furrowed above, furnished as well as the 

 midribs with more or less numerous pale slender hooked prickles, 

 downy. Leaflets five on the stems, three on the branches, roundish 

 ovate, with an acuminated point, and more or less cordate at the base, 

 the terminal one almost always distinctly so, the margins mostly 

 irregularly lobed, and unequally serrated, soft and pliant, the upper 

 surface a palish green, smooth, or slightly hairy, paler and more downy 

 beneath, the upper ones white and hoary, with close netted down. Panicle 

 oblong, with two or three times divided spreading branches, clothed with 

 close down, rarely naked, and furnished with a few prickles. Bracteas 

 linear lanceolate, sometimes cleft. Flotcers spreading, white or pink. 

 Calyx with ovale acute rarely long narrow pointed segments, pale, 



