ROSACEiE. 1S3 



from a long compressed base ; set:o and aciculi few and short. 

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

 on both sides, sparingly pilose above and on the veins beneath, 

 doubly dentate- serrate ; terminal leaflet oval, sub-eordate, acu- 

 minate. Flowers in a large pyramidal blunt-topped panicle with 

 corymbose branches, the upper spi-eading, the lower ascending ; 

 rachis and pedicels densely stiiily-hairy, with very numerous gland- 

 tipped seta\ aciculi, and a few unec^ual subulate declining prickles 

 from long bases. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, reflexed from the fruit. 

 In open woods. Apparently rare, but occurring from Ilauts 

 and Somerset to Carnarvon and Leicester. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



A large state of this plant is the R. Babingtonii, Bell Salter. 



Rough Bramble. 



Sub-Specibs XXVI.— RubuS rudis. Weihe. 

 Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 105. 



Barren stem arching, angular, sparingly pilose ; prickles nume- 

 rous, neai'ly equal, strong, straight or slightly hooked, somewhat 

 spreading or slightly declining from a rather small compressed 

 base ; aciculi and setse rather few and short. Leaves of the barren 

 stem quinate ; leaflets sub-coriaceous, green and roughened with 

 small points above, greenish-white-felted beneath with longer 

 hairs amongst the felt on the veins, doubly and irregularly den- 

 tate-serrate or slightly lobed-serrate ; terminal leaflet roundish-oval, 

 oval, or rhomboidal-oval, rounded or sub-cordate at the base, longly 

 acuminate or acuminate-cuspidate. Flowers in a long leafy panicle, 

 with the upper branches spreading and corymbose, the lower ones 

 ascending and sub-racemose ; rachis and pedicels felted, stiflly- 

 hairy, with rather numerous unequal gland-tipped seta3, aiul 

 unequal declining or deflexed prickles from long bases. Sepals 

 ovate-cuspidate. 



In hedges and thickets. Common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A variable form, with the leaflets often much cut, the felt 

 beneath varying from green to nearly white. The Eev. A. Bloxam 

 finds a curious small-leaved variety, microphyllus, with the terminal 

 leaflet rhomboid-ovate, cuspidate, finely and acutely doubly serrate. 



Coarse Bramble. 



