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sottB ratlior numerous, unequal. Leaves mostly ternate, more 

 rarely quinate-pedate; leallets sub-coriaceous, Hat, opaque, and 

 sparingly pilose above, paler and more hairy or sliglitly felted 

 beneath, finely and irregularly dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet 

 oval-obovate or subrhomboidal-obovate, truncate or sub-cordate at 

 the base, acuminate-cuspidate. Flowers in a long narrow sub- 

 racemose panicle, with the branches short spreading-ascending, 

 simple or sub-corymbose; rachis flexuous and with the pedicels 

 finely felted, with the felt intermixed with longer hairs, aud with 

 short unequal gland-tipped setie, a few aciculi and slender declining 

 prickles. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, reflexed in fruit. 



In shady woods. Rare. Reported from Cornwall, Herts, 

 "Worcester, Warwick, Monmouth, and Essex. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



A form well marked by the few prickles, the flexuous rachis of 

 its narrow panicle and the narrow petals. 



Gunther-'s Bramhle. 



Sub-Species XXXIV.— RubuS humifuSUS. Wdhe. 



Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 107. 

 R. hirtus, var. a, Bah. olim. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, round, stifBy-hairy ; prickles 

 numerous, very unequal, slender, spreading or slightly deflexed, 

 from a rather long much compressed base ; aciculi and gland-tipped 

 setfe numerous and unequal. Leaves ternate or quinate-pedate; 

 leaflets thin, green on both sides, j'i^ose above, paler and 

 densely pubescent or felted beneath, where they are also stiffly- 

 hairy on the veins, very sharply and irregularly denticulate-serrate ; 

 terminal leaflet oval, rounded or sub-cordate at the base, abruptly 

 acuminate. Elowers in a leafy panicle, often sub-racemose, with 

 the branches spreading-ascending, the lower ones mostly corym- 

 bose ; rachis and pedicels felted and densely stiffly-hairy, with 

 very numerous unequal gland-tipped seta?, aciculi, and very slender 

 declining prickles. Sepals lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, with gland- 

 tipi)ed seta.', loosely reflexed in fruit. 



In woods and thickets. Rare. Reported from the counties of 

 Herts, Kent, Worcester, Warwick, Salop, and Dumfries. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



Stem with more numerous hairs, gland-tipped setae, aciculi. 



