166 ENGLISU BOTANY. 



Westmoreland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Sussex, In a recent 

 letter he adds various localities, from Forfar to the East High- 

 lands. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



This plant ought probably to be combined with R. suberectus, 

 as is done by Mr. Lees. Mr. Bloxam makes this note on my 

 specimens of R. fissus : — " I cannot see much difference between 

 II. suberectus and fissus." Indeed, the larger and more numerous 

 prickles and usually thicker leaflets appear to be the only differences 

 between them. 



Prom the specimens named R. fissus by Professor Babington, 

 in the Herbarium of the late Mr. Borrer at Kew, it is evident that 

 he has relinquished, as distinctive, the characters taken from the 

 consistence of the leaves and the direction of the fruit-calyx, as the 

 plant from North-east Yorkshire, collected by ]\Ir. Mudd, and sent 

 by Mr. Baker, which agrees in these points with the normal state 

 of R. suberectus, he there names R. fissus. 



JLcsser sub-erect Bramble. 



Sub-Species III.— Rubus plicatUS. WeUie Ji Nees. 

 Plate CCCCXLV. 

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



Barren stem sub-erect, angular with the angles very obtuse, 

 smooth ; prickles confined to the angles of the stem, strong, hooked 

 or nearly straight from a large oblong base. Leaves of the barren 

 stem quinatc; leaflets rather thin, plicate, sparingly pilose beneath, 

 finely and sharply irregularly dentate-serrate ; " terminal leaflet 

 cordate acuminate, basal leaflets usually sub-sessile; lateral leaflctsof 

 the flowering shoot rhomboidal-ovate, dilated at the base" (Bab.). 

 Elowers in a raceme or panicle with rather short sub-corymbose 

 branches ; rachis and peduncles sparingly jjilose. Eruit black when 

 ripe, with the sepals reflexed. 



In heathy places and in woods. Not very common, but widely 

 distributed from Hants, Sussex, and Devon to Aberdeen, according 

 to Professor Babington in " Cybele Britannica," Vol. Ill, p. 339, 

 though the last locality may belong to R. fissus. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub, Summer, 



Prickles considerably larger, more hooked, and less uniform in 

 size than in R, suberectus and fissus. Eruit lai-ger and becoming 

 quite black. 



Professor Babington in the Kew Herbarium has confined the 

 name R. plicatus to plants which have the terminal leaflet ovate, 



