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basal leaflets sub-sessile ; lateral leaflets of the flowering-shoot 

 narrowed towards the base. Plowcrs in a nearly simple raceme, 

 or a panicle with corymbose branches; rachis and pedicels 

 sparingly pilose. Pruit dark red, with the sepals reflexed. 



In boggy woods. Reported as common in Scotland and the 

 West of England ; more rare in the South, and not recorded from 

 the eastern counties. This appears to be the only fruticose 

 bramble that reaches as far North as Orkney ; but as R. sub- 

 erectus and R. fissus are not generally distinguished, much doubt 

 rests on the distribution inferred from the localities given for 

 R. suberectus. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



Stems 2 to 8 feet high, at first erect, but trailing when weak, 

 in which case, when it flowers the second year it pi'oduces numerous 

 sliort fastigiate branches from tlie axils of the old leaves, as 

 remarked by Mr. Lees in " Phytologist " for 1853, p. 929. Leaves 

 rather flexible, green, rarely ternatc except in the flowering-shoots. 

 Fruit small, lurid red in all the fresh examples I have seen, but, 

 according to Mr. Lees, becoming at length " raven-black." 



Suh-erect Bramble. 



Sub-Species II.— RubUS fissus. LhuUey. 

 Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 97. 



Barren stem erect or sub-erect, not rooting at the apex, 

 angular with the angles obtuse, smooth ; prickles not confined to 

 the angles of the stem, numerous, small, straight, from a large 

 oblong compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem quinate, or 

 accidentally pinnate (from the central leaflet being divided into 3), 

 "with coriaceous plicate leaflets" (Bab.), rather finely serrate; 

 terminal leaflet ovate, cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex ; 

 basal leaflet sessile ; lateral leaflets of the flowering-shoot narrowed 

 towards the base, " often gibbous at the base " (Bab.). Elowers in 

 a simple raceme, or a panicle with corymbose branches ; rachis 

 and peduncles S2:)aringly pilose. Fruit dark red, with the sepals 

 "erect-patent" (Bab.). 



On boggy heaths. Apparently not uncommon ; for although 

 in the " Manual " Professor Babington apparently restricts the 

 name R. fissus to the plants found at Almond Park and West 

 Felton, Salop, and Londonderry, Ireland, yet in the Kew IlerbariuGi 

 he applies that name to others from Argyleshire, Cumberland, 



