191 ENGLISH BOTANT. 



both sides, uneven, and witli a few scattered hairs above, and 

 more numerous ones or greyish-green felt beneath, doubly ser- 

 rate ; terminal leaflet rhomboidal-oval or obovate-oval, rounded 

 at the base, acute or slightly acuminate ; basal leaflets of the 

 quinate leaves not overlapping the intermediate pair, nor the 

 lateral pair the terminal one. Flowers in a small lax leafy 

 panicle, with the upper branches short corymbose, the lower ones 

 longer ; rachis and pedicels felted with very short hairs, with a 

 very few short setae and slender spreading or declining prickles. 

 Sepals ovate-acuminate, with a few short gland-tipped setse, loosely 

 applied to the fruit, which is black and composed of few drupes. 



In hedges. Apparently rare, being only reported from Hants, 

 Middlesex, Cambridge, and York. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



Of this plant I have only seen two or three imperfect dried 

 specimens. 



Mallow-leaved Bramble. 



Sub-Species XL.— Rubus tuberculatus. £ab. 



Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 110, & Fl. Canib. p. 306. 

 R. nemorosns c ferox, " Leighton" Bab. oliin. 

 R. dumetorum " Blox." Bah. 



Barren stem arching-prostrate, with rounded angles, sparingly 

 hairy ; prickles very numerous, unequal, short, slender, spreading, 

 from a short slightly-compressed base ; aciculi and setae rather 

 numerous, unequal. Leaves of the barren stem quinate, or ternate 

 with the lateral leaflets 2-partite ; leaflets sub-coriaceous, green on 

 both sides, uneven, with a few short scattered hairs above, and 

 more numerous ones beneath, irregularly dentate-serrate ; ter- 

 minal leaflet roundish or roundish-ovate, sub-cordate, cuspidate 

 or acuminate-cuspidate; basal leaflets of the quinate leaves not 

 overlapping the intermediate ones. Flowers in an elongate 

 narrow leafy panicle, the upper branches very short, corymbose, 

 the lower longer and sub-racemose. Kachis felted with short haii's, 

 with very numcous unequal gland-tipped setae, aciculi, and very 

 numerous slender slightly-declining prickles. Sepals ovate- 

 acuminate, with aciculi and gland-tipped seta?, loosely adpressed to 

 the fruit, which is black and composed of few drupes. 



In hedges. Probably not uncommon. 



England, Ireland. 



