180 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



y, R. rubicolor. Blox. MS. 



Barren stem arching, very stout, prickles numerous, nearly 

 destitute of gland-tipped setae and aciculi. Leaves quinate ; ter- 

 minal leaflet oblong obovate-cuspidate. Panicle lax, many- 

 flowered ; rachis more densely setose, with numerous strong prickles 

 and a few aciculi and gland-tipped setse. 



On heaths and in woods. Not uncommon in the West of Eng- 

 land, from the Isle of Wight to Westmoreland, y near Man- 

 setter, Warwickshire (Rev. A. Bloxam), from which place he has 

 kindly furnished me with an example. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



A well-marked plant. 3 rather a weak state than a variety. 

 7, which Mr. Bloxam considers distinct, a much larger, redder, and 

 more hairy plant than a and 0, with the panicle longer and more 

 slender and interrupted, and the rachis more densely hairy, with 

 more numerous spines and gland-tipped hairs ; sepals narrower 

 and more decidedly reflexed. 



SprengeVs Bramble. 



Sub-Group IV.— EADUL^. 



Stem pubescent, with deciduous gland-tipped setse and aciculi, 

 which are situated on small points ; the latter remain and render 

 the stem rough after the setse have disappeared; prickles nearly 

 equal. 



Sub-Species XXI.— Rubus Bloxamii. Lees. 



Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 103. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, bluntly angular, with scattered 

 woolly hairs ; prickles small, straight, somewhat spreading, from a 

 slightly dilated base ; aciculi and gland-tipped setse short, numerous. 

 Leaves of the barren stem quinate or ternatc ; leaflets thin, sparingly 

 hairy above, densely so on the veins beneath, coarsely doubly 

 dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet roundish-obovate, sub-cordate at 

 the base, abruptly cuspidate. Flowers in a long leafy panicle, 

 corymbose at the top ; branches elongated, erect, or patent, panicu- 

 late ; rachis shortly and densely hairy, and Avith numerous slender 

 declining or hooked prickles and aciculi, and very numerous gland- 

 tipped setse. 



