ROSACEA. 181 



In woods. Rather rare ; principally in the south and west mid- 

 land counties. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



A largo coarse plant with a very compound panicle, sometimes 

 2 or 3 feet long, and leafy nearly to the summit. Stem with very 

 numerous stout rather short prickles. 



Bloxani's Bramble. 



Scb-Species XXII.— Rubus Hystrix, Weihe. 

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



Stem arching-prostrate, bluntly angular, stiffly-hairy ; prickles 

 very numerous, unequal, small, straight, somewhat spreading, from 

 a rather small much compressed base ; aciculi and gland-tipped 

 setie numerous. Leaves quinate orternate; leaflets sub-coriaceous, 

 green on both sides, sparingly hairy above, densely so beneath, 

 especially on the veins, sharply and iri'Cgularly or doubly serrate 

 or dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet broadly oval or obovate-oval, 

 rounded at the base, acuminate-cuspidate. Flowers in a long leafy 

 panicle with the branches short, spreading or the lower ones ascend- 

 ing, corymbose ; rachis densely pubescent and stiffly-hairy, with very 

 numerous unequal gland-tipped setae and aciculi, and numei'ous 

 unequal slender subulate somewhat spreading or declining prickles. 

 Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, " loosely adpressed to the fruit." — 

 (Bab.) 



In hedges and thickets. Not uncommon in England. 

 England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



Hedgehog Bramble. 

 Sub-Species XXIII.— Rubus rosaceus. WeUie. 



Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 104. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, angular, hairy; prickles very 

 unequal, rather small, straight, slightly declining, from a rather long 

 compressed base ; aciculi and gland-tipped setae numerous. Leaves 

 quinate or ternate ; leaflets rather thin, green on both sides, spar- 

 ingly pUose above, densely so on the veins beneath, unequally and 

 sharply serrate ; terminal leaflet oval or oval-obovate, sub-cordate 

 at the base, acuminate-cuspidate. Elowers in a leafy sub-pyramidal 

 truncate panicle, with the upper branches spreading, simple or 

 corymbose, the lower ascending and sometimes racemose ; rachis 



