190 ENGLISH BOTAXY. 



and slender prickles, than in the allied species; panicle rather 

 small, frequently simple ; petals broad. 



Trailing Bramble. 



Sub-Species XXXV.— Rubus foliOSUS. Weike. 



Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 108. 

 Iv. liirtus, var. y, Bab. olim. 



Barren, stem arching-prostrate, slightly angular, sparingly 

 hairy ; prickles rather numerous and slender, slightly hooked or 

 deflexed, from a rather long much compressed base ; aciculi and 

 gland-tipped setaj few, unequal. Leaves pedate-quinate ; leaflets 

 sub-coriaceous, green on both sides, opaque and sparingly pilose 

 above, paler and densely pubescent or felted beneath, where 

 they are stiflly-hairy on the veins, finely irregularly denticulate- 

 serrate ; terminal leaflet roundish-ovate, cordate, cuspidate-acumi- 

 nate. Flowers in a long very leafy narrow compact panicle, with 

 short spreading-ascending branches ; the upper ones simple or 

 corymbose, the lower sub-racemose ; rachis thick, slightly flexuous 

 and as well as the pedicels very densely stiffly-hairy, the hairs inter- 

 mixed with rather numerous aciculi, gland-tipped sette, and slender 

 spreading or declining prickles. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, stifiiy-hairy, with gland-tipped setaj and aciculi, loosely 

 reflexed from the fruit. 



On heaths and in woods. P^are, and apparently confined to 

 Warwickshire. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



Of this form, the only specimens I have seen are some kindly 

 given me by the Eev. A. Bloxam, from Aunesley coalfield lleath, 

 near Atherstone. The panicle leafy up to the top and the very 

 thick rachis give the plant a very peculiar aspect. Professor 

 Babington considers it closely allied to R. humifusus, but the stem 

 is much less thickly clothed with hairs, gland-tipped setie, aciculi, 

 and prickles. 



Leafy-flowered Bramble. 



SuB-SrECiES XXXVI.— RubuS glanduloSUS. Bellard. 

 Plate CCCCLIV. 

 Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 108. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, nearly round, very hairy ; 

 prickles unequal, small, weak, slightly hooked or declining, from 

 a small compressed base; gland-tipped setae' and aciculi numerous, 



