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than in any of the preceding. The panicle is narroAver and more 

 crowded ; the leaflets irregularly toothed and as hroad as in the 

 broadest forms of R. rhamnifoliiis, from which it further differs, 

 according to descriptions, by having the edges of the leaves in- 

 curved. 



Incurved-leaved Bramble. 



Sub-Species VIII.— Rubus imbricatus. Jiort. 



Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 89. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, angular; prickles confined to 

 the angles of the stem, small, declining, from along compressed base. 

 Leaves of the barren stem quinate ; leaflets coriaceous, " convex," 

 opaque and nearly glabrous above, paler and with scattered hairs 

 beneath ; terminal leaflet broadly ovate or roundish, cordate, 

 cuspidate; basal leaflets overlapping the intermediate, and the 

 intermediate the terminal one. Flowers in a slender las panicle 

 with elongate racemose branches ; rachis and pedicels sliglitly 

 pubescent and sparingly prickly. 



In open places in woods by the banks of the Wye below Mon- 

 mouth, in the counties of Gloucester and Monmouth. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



I have seen this plant only in a dried state in Mr. Borrer's 

 herbarium at Kew. 



Imhricated-leaved Bramble. 



Sub-Species IX.— Rubus latifolius. Bah. 

 Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 99. 



" Barren stem arcuate-prostrate angular, furrowed ; prickles 

 small, slender, compressed, slightly declining from a very long 

 compressed base. Leaves quinate, leaflets thin, pilose on both 

 sides, coarsely and doubly dentate, not felted beneath ; termuial 

 leaflet cordate-acuminate ; basal leaflets sessile, imbricate ; panicle 

 short, leafy, hairy, with ascending few-flowered corymbose branches, 

 its top and pedicels felted and hairy, its prickles slender, declining." 

 — (Bab. Man., I.e.) 



Open woods and hedges. Cramond Bridge and Collinton near 

 Edinburgh, Falls of Acharn, Perthshire, and Monmouth. 



England, Scotland. Shrub. Summer. 



Of this I have seen no specimens. 



Broad-leaved Bramble. 



