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those of R. rhamnifolius or R. carpinifolius. The selac are irregularly 

 distributed, occurring in groups among the rigid hairs which copiously 

 clothe the stem. The leaves are rather rigid" It grows, he says, in 

 Sussex forest. Mr. Forster finds it in Essex, and it is not unfrequent 

 in the woods in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. 



9. R. macrophyVlus, Weihe and Nees, (Fig. 823.) Large-leaved 

 Bramble. " Stem somev\hat angular and furrowed ; prickles uniform 

 few, small ; leaves digitate, of three or five stalked elliptical or ovate 

 flexible leaflets; panicle repeatedly divided, somewhat corymbose." 



Borrer in English Botany, Supp. t. 2025. — Hooker, British Flora, 

 ed. 3. vol. i. p. 250- — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 93. 



"Stem rather soft and spongy, about half an inch thick near the 

 base, upright al first, then decurved, and growing often fifteen feet or 

 more in length, dull green, purplish when much exposed, covered with 

 short soft hairs, which are usually lost in the flowering slate of the 

 plant. Prickles thinly scattered on the angles of the stem, short and 

 small, horizontal or deflexed, with a thick base. Leaflets often six 

 inches long, soft and pliant, hairy, and mostly green on both sides, 

 occasionally greyish beneath, rather coarsely serrated, the central one 

 generally cordate, lower leaves of the flowering branches and many of 

 those of the barren stems ternate. Panicle hairy, with few prickles, 

 and no set(c, but small inconspicuous glands may be found both here 

 and on some parts of the stem. Cahjx segments acute, at length 

 reflexed, woolly and glandulous, with occasionally a very few prickles. 

 Petals \ih\{e, or faint pink. Fruit black and shining, of a moderate 

 size, rather loosely set." 



Habitat — Hedges, thickets, woods ; rare. Sussex. 



Shrub; flowering in July and August. 



This species we are unacquainted with, except by dried specimens. 

 It appears an intermediate state between R. Koehleri and R. coryli- 

 folius; it approaches some of the varieties of the former in habit, and 

 the downiness han not any seise amongst it, while the prickles are 

 uniform, fewer, shorter, and with a broader base; and from R. cory- 

 lifolitis it diff"ers in the leaflets being more ovate, the more elongated 

 panicle, its regular prickles, and more angular and deeper furrowed 

 stem. Lindley says it is R. corylifolitts, advancing towards the cha- 

 racters of R. rhamnifolius ; or in other words, is a transition from R. 

 corylifolius to li. fruticosus. 



10. R. corylifo'lius, Smith. (Fig. 824.) Hazel-leaved Bramble, 

 Stem roundish, decurved, with nearly straight scattered unequal 

 prickles; leaves digitate, with five roundish cordate ovate leaflets, 

 finely hairy beneath ; calyx spreading, or reflexed. 



English Botany, t. 827.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 409— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 251.— R. vutyaris, Weihe and Nees. — 

 Lindley, Synopsis, p. 93. 



