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branches are somewhat spreading ; lower branches frequently 

 remote, elongated, and corymbose ; rachis and pedicels finely 

 felted or pubescent, with short hairs and a few gland-tipped seta?, 

 usually confined to the uppermost branches ; prickles few, unequal, 

 slender, subulate. Sepals ovate, abruptly acuminate, mostly 

 without glaud-tipped setae, reflexed from the fruit, which is black. 



a, H. sublustris. Lees. 



Barren stem nearly round, green, tinged with red; prickles 

 slender, mostly spreading, from a short base ; leaflets felted, greyish- 

 green beneath. Rachis nearly straight, with few prickles. 



3, conjungeiis. Bab. B. Wahlbergii. Bell Salt. 



Stem round at the base, angular above, green tinged with red ; 

 prickles strong, slender, somewhat spreading, from a rather long 

 base. Leaflets densely pubescent or ashy-felted beneath. Eachis 

 nearly straight, with few prickles. 



y, purpureus. Bab. R. WaMhergii. Arrh. 



Stem angular, purple, often slightly hairy; prickles strong, 

 spreading or slightly deflexed, from a rather long base. Leaflets 

 pubescent or white-felted beneath. Rachis slightly flexuous, with 

 numerous rather strong prickles. 



In hedges and thickets. Very common, and generally dis- 

 tributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A large plant, varying considerably, but having a peculiar look, 

 which, though difficult to describe, when once known is easily 

 recognized. This sub-species flowers earlier than most of the 

 llubi, except R. csesius. The flowers are large, white or pink. 



Sazel-leaved Bramble. 

 Sub-Species xxxix— Rubus althseifolius. Hot.. 



Bub. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 109, & Fl. Camb. p. 30.3. 



R. Wahlbergii fl glabratus, Bell SaU., in Bot. Gaz. Vol. II. p. 129. 



Barren stem prostrate, roundish, with scattered hairs; prickles 

 numerous, unequal, slender, straight or slightly hooked, from a 

 rather short compressed base; gland-tipped seta; few. Leaves 

 of the barren stem ternate, with the lateral leaflets of the lower 

 leaves retrorsely 2-partite, rarely quinate ; leaflets thin, green on 



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