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tatc-scrrate ; terminal leaflet i-oundish or broadly obovatc-cuspidatc. 

 Flowers in an clont^atc panicle with very short few-flowered 

 spreading lateral branches ; rachis and pedicels felted and densely 

 stifUy-hairy, having long slender spreading or slightly declining 

 prickles and a few aciculi and gland-tipped sette. Sepals felted 

 and stiffly-hairy. 



a. 

 Trickles nniform, confined to the angles of the stem. Terminal 

 leaflet rounded or slightly narrowed towards the base. 



0, R. vestitus. Weihe. 



Prickles unequal, scattered ; leaflets roundish, cordate. 



In hedges and thickets. Not uncommon, and generally distri- 

 buted in England. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A well-marked form, easily known from the two preceding by 

 its densely hairy stem and much broader leaflets, and by having 

 the Iblt intermixed with numerous stilf hairs, which are especially 

 abundant on the veins of the leaves beneath and on the branches 

 of the panicle. 



Long-clustered Bramble. 



Sub-Species XIII.— Rubus Grabowskii. Weilie. 



Plate CCCCXLIX. 



Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 100. 



R. carpinifolius, Borrer in E. B. S. No. 2664. 



Barren stem arching, angular, sub-glabrous ; prickles numerous, 

 rather strong, deflexed, from a large slightly compressed base. 

 Leaves of the barren stem quinate; leaflets sub-coriaceous, plicate, 

 glabrous and opaque above, grey-felted beneath, with longer 

 hairs interspersed, pilose on the veins, finely and irregularly denti- 

 culate ; terminal leaflet roundish or transversely ovate, cordate at 

 tlie base, abruptly cuspidate. Flowers in an elongate leafy 

 panicle, with short ascending branches, the upper ones corymbose, 

 the lower sub-racemose; rachis with scattered hairs, pedicels 

 densely felted and pilose, having very numerous long, slender, 

 slightly-declining prickles. Sepals felted and pilose. 



In hedges and thickets. Rare. At Cadebv, Leicestershire. The 



