404 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 



In Sir Michael le Fleming's woods at Rydall, Westmoreland, 

 where no other Eubvs grows. Mr. D. Turner. Common in 

 Sussex. Mr. Borrer. As common in Essex. Mr. E. Fursler. 

 Near Nevvbiny. Mr. Bicheno. 



Shrub. July, August. 



The barren shoots of this species, which neither Dr. Bellardi, nor 

 Professor DeCandoUe, perhaps, has examined, bear leaves with 

 :> ovate, acute, stalked leaflets; tliose eminent botanists de- 

 scribe the leaves as all ternate, which is the case with those of 

 the flowering stems only. All the stems are angular, furrowed 

 towards the top, and, as Mr. Boner observes, " nearly as stout 

 at the base as those of R.fruticosus, but not so tall." All are 

 copiously beset with scattered, unequal, deflexed, partly hooked 

 prickles, and in the upper part with glandular bristles. The 

 prickles of the footstalks and ribs of the leaves are plentiful, 

 and strongly hooked. Leaflets on the flowering stems rather 

 obovate, and more jagged ; all the leaflets are bright green 

 and smooth above ; paler and downy beneath, but not hoary 

 except when very young. Stipulas very narrow. Panicle some- 

 what corymbose, not elongated ; its lower branches spreading 

 horizontally ; all the general as well as partial stalks are 

 clothed with numerous, partly hooked prickles, abundance of 

 shaggy hairs, and of straight, unequal, glandular-tipped, viscid 

 bristles. The calyx is also hairy, copiously glandular, and more 

 or less armed with straight prickles. The last character, and 

 the prominent glandular bristles of the branches, panicle and 

 calyx, mark this species well, and prevent its being confounded 

 with a-ny variety of the leucostachys, whose glands are minute, 

 and sunk amongst its hoary pubescence. The calyx of J?, glan- 

 dulosus sometimes, when extremely prickly, terminates in leafy 

 points. Petals white, narrower than in any of the foregoing. 

 Fruit black, of numerous, rather small, grains; its calyx re- 

 flexed. 



My Swiss specimen, gathered by M. Favrod, exactly accords witli 

 our English ones in all the above marks. Yet M. Reynier, to 

 whom it was sent, considered it as a variety of the (Common 

 Raspberry, R. Idceus, and wrote a history of it, to that efl'ect, for 

 his Memoires on the Natural History of Switzerland, of whicii 

 one volume only seems to have been published. It is difficult to 

 imagine the grounds on which his opinion could be founded. 

 My excellent friend Professor DeCandolle first determined the 

 synonym of Bellardi, who quotes, with doubt, but perhaps justly, 

 R. hybridus of Villars, Dauph. v. 3. 559. 



6. R. 7iitidus. Smooth Shining Bramble. 



Stems obtusely angular, spreading, smootli. Prickles 

 liooked. Leaflets five or three, somewliat hairy beneath. 

 Panicle and calyx sparingly prickly, without bristles. 



