]60 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



from the receptacle, consisting of a few large juicy drupes witli a 

 very tender skin, shining red when ripe. 



Among rocky debris in woods, and by the sides of streams in 

 hilly countries. Local, but occurring where the conditions for its 

 growth are found, from Devonshire, Gloucestershire, and Derbyshire, 

 to Orkney and Shetland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock woody, shortly creeping, much branched. Flowering- 

 stems angular, produced from the rootstock, 6 to 18 inches long, 

 the barren shoots (when present) from the base of the flowering- 

 stems ; the former erect or decumbent, sometimes 2 or 3 feet, and 

 quite prostrate. Leaves few ; leaflets 1 to 3 inches long, plicate, 

 variable in shape and in the dentition of the margins ; the central 

 leaflet stalked. Stipules very slightly adnate. Flowers erect, f inch 

 across, white, in a very compact corymb, more rarely with a few 

 branches beneath it so as to resemble a panicle. Calyx-segments 

 triangular-lanceolate. Fruit claret-colour, about ^ inch long, 

 consisting of seldom more than 3 or 4 drupes, containing large 

 pitted reticulated stones. Sepals reflexed in fruit. Plant pale- 

 green, underside of the leaves a little paler. Stems, petioles, 

 pedicels, and veins of the leaves clothed with short scattered 

 woolly hairs. Prickles straight, patent or slightly declining, from 

 a small compressed base. 



Stone Bramble, Roebuck-berry. 



French, Ronce des Rochers. German, Felsen Bromheeru 



This plant resembles the strawberry more than the raspberry. The fruit is very 

 small, but has a pleasant flavour when mixed with sugar to subdue its acidity. In 

 Russia the berries are fermented with honey, and made into a strong spirit. 



The Stone Bramble is the badee of the Highland McNabs. 



SPECIES III.— RU BUS ID-ffiUS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCCXLII. 

 Rootstock stoloniferous. Stem biennial, erect, round, pruinose, 

 prickly ; prickles very small and weak, those of the flowering-shoot 

 deflexed from a compressed and elongated base. Leaves pinnate, 

 with 2 pairs of leaflets, or ternate ; leaflets ovate or oval, acuminate, 

 irregularly and sharply serrated, hoary-white beneath. Stipules 

 adnate. Flowers terminating the lateral branches and the main 

 stem, in small corymbose cymes. Sepals roundish-ovate, acuminate, 

 and cuspidate. Petals strapshaped-oblanceolate, erect. Fruit sepa- 

 rable from the receptacle when ripe, consisting of numerous small 



