186 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



3, infestus. Bab. 



Barren stem with very numerous prickles, aciculi, and gland- 

 tipped setae. Leaflets soft, hairy only on the veins beneath ; panicle 

 broad, compact, the terminal peduncles shorter than the lateral 

 ones. 



y, M. palUdus. Weihe. 



Barren stem with rather few prickles, aciculi, and gland- 

 tipped setae. Leaflets soft, greyish, felted beneath, as well as hairy 

 on the veins ; panicle narrow, rounded at the top, with the ter- 

 minal peduncles frequently as long as or longer than the lateral 

 ones. 



In hedges and thickets. Common, and generally distributed. 

 The form 11. pallidus apparently the most abundant. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A very prickly plant. Var. y has a different aspect, from the 

 fewer prickles and leaflets felted beneath. 



Kohler^s Bramble. 

 Sub-Species XXIX.— Rubus fusco-ater. Wdiie. 



Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 106. 



Barren stemarching-prostrate, angular, hairy ; prickles unequal, 

 slightly deflexed, from a very large compressed base ; aciculi and 

 gland-tipped setse numerovis, unequal. Leaflets irregularly or 

 doubly dentate-serrate, even above, green and hairy beneath ; 

 terminal leaflet roundish ovate, sub-cordate, acuminate or acumi- 

 nate-cuspidate ; basal leaflets stalked, imbricated so as to overlap 

 the intermediate ones. Plowers in a long leafy sub-pyraraiJal 

 panicle, with short ascending-spreading corymbose branches, or 

 with the lower ones longer and sub-racemose ; rachis and pedicels 

 bristly-hairy, with numerous unequal gland-tipped setaj, aciculi, 

 and slightly declining prickles. Sepals ovate-acuminate, spreading 

 or adpressed to the fruit. 



On heaths. Rare. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



The only specimens I have seen are from Kidderminster, in 

 Mr. Borrer's herbarium at Kew. 



Brownish-black Bramble. 



