176 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



acutely serrate ; terminal leaflet obovate-oval or oval, rounded or 

 sub-cordate towards the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, 

 riowers in a narrow panicle, with short erect-spreading corymbose 

 branches throughout ; rachis and pedicels densely pilose, with 

 straight declining unequal prickles, and a few setae about as long 

 as the hairs. Calyx felted and pilose, loosely reflexed in fruit. 

 In open places in hilly districts. Apparently rare. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A doubtful plant, about which Professor Bahington and the 

 Rev. A. Bloxam do not agree : I have described specimens named 

 by the former. 



Uornheam-leaved Bramble. 



Sub-Species XVII.— RubUS villicaulis. Weike t Kfees. 



Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 101. 

 K. villicaulis & pampinosus, Bab. olim. 



Barren stem arching, angular, sparingly pilose with spreading 

 hairs ; prickles numerous, strong, short, nearly spreading, from a 

 slightly dilated much compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem 

 quinate ; leaflets thin, sub-glabrous above, pale green, softly 

 pubescent, and densely setose-hairy on the veins beneath, doubly 

 serrate ; terminal leaflet obovate or roundish-obovate, rounded or 

 sub-cordate at the base, abruptly acuminated. Tlowers in a long 

 lax panicle with spreading ascending corymbose branches ; rachis 

 and peduncles felted and stiffly-hairy, with numerous slender de- 

 clining prickles. Sepals felted, stiffly -haii-y, loosely reflexed in 

 front. 



In woods and hedges. Apparently widely distributed through- 

 out England, and also given as Scotch and Irish by Professor 

 Eabington. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



I am but imperfectly acquainted with this species, knowing it 

 only from dried specimens, having probably confounded it when in 

 the fields with some of the forms of 11. macrophyllus. Professor 

 Bahington considers 11. vulgaris (Lindley) a form of this with more 

 aciculi and strong deciduous-headed seta) on the stem. 



I'ilose-stemmed Bramble. 



