182 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



and pedicels stifHy-hairy with very numerous gland-tipped setre, 

 aeiculi, and numerous slender subulate declining or spreading 

 prickles. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, loosely applied to the fruit. 

 In woods and hedges. Apparently rare. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A doubtful plant. Professor Babington thinks it is perhaps 

 not distinct from R. Hystrix, differing chiefly in its abrupt pyra- 

 midal panicle, and more unequal prickles, the smaller ones scarcely 

 exceeding the aeiculi in length. The Rev. A. Bloxam also con- 

 siders it as very closely allied to R. Hystrix. 



Rose-fioicered Bramhle. 

 Sub-Species XXIV.— Kubus pygmaeus. Welhe. 



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

 E,. hirtus ft Menkii, Bah. olim. 



Barren stems arching-prostrate, roundish, hairy; prickles very 

 numerous, slender, declining, from a slightly dilated base ; aeiculi 

 and gland-tipped sette very numerous and unequal. Leaves of the 

 barren stem qiiinate ; leaflets green on both sides, paler below, 

 sparingly hairy below, more densely so on the veins beneath, 

 coarsely and unequally doubly serrate ; terminal leaflet oval, 

 rounded or sub-cordate at the base, acuminate. Flowers in a long 

 narrow leafy panicle, with short spreading corymbose branches ; 

 rachis and pedicels with very numerous hairs, gland-tipped 

 seta?, aeiculi and slender declining prickles. Sepals ovate-acu- 

 minate, with aeiculi and long rather-stiff hairs, loosely reflexed 

 from the fruit. 



In hedges and borders of woods. Rare, At Bridge, near Tun- 

 bridge Wells, and near Pinner, Middlesex. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



Of this plant I have only seen the specimens from Tunbridge 

 Wells, in the collection of the late Mr. Borrer, at Kew. 



Dicarf Bramble. 



Sub-Species XXV.— Rubus SCaber. WeilM. 



Bah. ir.in. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 104. 

 R. Babingtouii, Bell Sail. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, bluntly angular, furrowed, spar- 

 ingly hairy ; prickles numerous, nearly equal, short, strong, hooked. 



