192 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Sub-Species XXXVII.— Rubus Balfoiirianus. Biox. 



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



Barren stem arching-jirostrate, round, sparingly hairy; prickles 

 few, unequal, slender, straight, spreading, from a rather short 

 slightly compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem mostly 

 quinate ; leaflets thin, green on both sides, rugose and sparingly 

 pilose above, pubescent but not felted beneath, finely and irregu- 

 larly dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet rhomboidal-ovate, rounded 

 or sub-cordate at the base, shortly acuminate or cuspidate-acumi- 

 nate; lateral leaflets sub-sessile, imbricated. Flowers in a lax 

 leafy sub-corymbose panicle, the upper branches short and nearly 

 simple, the lower longer and corymbose or racemo-corymbose ; 

 i'achis and pedicels felted, with long woolly hairs intermixed, 

 and numerous short unequal gland-tipped setae, a few aciculi, 

 and small slender slightly declining prickles. Sepals ovate- 

 acuminate, with gland-tipped setae, erect-spreading. Styles pale 

 flesh-coloured. 



In hedges. Probably not uncommon, as it occurs from Hants 

 to York. 



England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A very variable form, approaching in some of its states to 

 R. corylifolius, in others to R. cjesius, but generally a very luxuriant 

 plant, with large leaves, paler beneath. Petals pale pink; fruit of 

 rather numerous drupes. 



Balfour's Bramble. 



Sub-Species XXXVIII.— Rubus COrylifolius. Stn. 

 Plate CCCCLV. 

 Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 109. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, round or bluntly angular, nearly 

 glabrous, slightly glaucous ; prickles rather few, short, straight, 

 spreading or slightly declining, from a rather short slightly-com- 

 pressed base. Leaves of the barren stem mostly quinate, if ternate, 

 with the lateral leaflets 2-partite or -cleft; leaflets thin, green on both 

 sides, rugose and sj^aringly pilose above, paler and densely pubes- 

 cent or felted beneath, acutely and irregularly or doubly dentate- 

 serrate; terminal leaflet roundish-ovate, sub cordate at the base, 

 abruptly acuminate ; lateral leaflets svkb-scssile, imbricated. Flowers 

 in a lax rather short panicle, sub-corymbose at the apex, where the 



