1C2 ENGLISn BOTANY. 



leaflets subsessile, roundish-ovate, the basal ones overlapping the 

 terminal ones, irregularly serrate, hoary-white beneath, those at 

 the base of the panicle often roundish-cordate and simple. Sti- 

 pules adnate for two-thirds of their length. Plowers terminating 

 the lateral branches and the main stem, in small corymbose cymes. 

 Sepals triangular-lanceolate, cuspidate. Petals strapshaped-oblan.- 

 ceolate, erect. Fruit (?) " small, bright-crimson when ripe." — 

 (Lees, /. c.) 



In stony sub-alpine woods. E-are. Ilford Bridges, near Bran- 

 don, Devon, where it was found by Mr. Lees ; Dunster, Somerset, 

 by the Rev. W. H. Colman and Professor Babington. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



A very remarkable plant, which I have only seen growing in 

 the Caml)ridge Botanical Gardens, and there in habit it is exactly 

 intermediate between the Ilas2:)berry and the Brambles. The habit 

 in dried specimens is much nearer the Raspberry, with which it also 

 agrees better in its technical characters ; but the prickles have a 

 less dilated base, the leaflets are much rounder and with the central 

 leaflet rarely stalked, as is commonly the case with R. Idaeus. The 

 floral leaves resemble the ordinary leaves of R. Chamgeraorus, while 

 the barren stem is exceedingly similar to that of the fruticose Rubi. 

 It may be a hybrid form, but I cannot think it probable that the 

 species is a variety of R. Idoeus. Mr. Lees states that he has only 

 once found the fruit, and that the petals are often multiplied to 12 

 or 16. Professor Babington informs me that he has seen on garden 

 plants of R. Leesi fine drupes, but without seeds in them. 



Lees' Ixcispberry. 



SPECIES v.— RUBUS PRUTICOSUS.* Linn. 

 Plates CCCCXLIV. to CCCCLVI. 



Rootstock slightly or scarcely stoloniferous. Stems shrubby, 

 biennial, usually arching during the first year, when they are 

 barren, frequently rooting at the extremity late in the season, 

 and flowering the second summer ; prickles comparatively large 

 and strong. Leaves stalked, digitate with 5 or 7 leaflets, or ternate, 



* I have placed the fruticose Brambles under a single super-species, because.althongh 

 the extreme forms are widely different, they arc so completely connected by intermediate 

 ones, that I find it utterly impossible to separate them into any groups answering to 

 the usual idea of a species. Professor Babingtou's long and attentive study of this 

 genus entitles him to be considered as the leading authority in Britain upon this sub- 



