406 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 



hoary cahjx, the latter being destitute of prickles. The leaflets 

 also are larger, more pliant, and finely hairy or downy on both 

 sides in some degree, though scarcely ever hoary. The prickles 

 are all hooked. Stem purplish, a little hairy in the old part ; the 

 branches much more so, and rather acutely angular. Panicle 

 more or less compound and corymbose, apparently somewhat 

 glutinous, but not evidently glandular, nor at all bristly. Calyx 

 hoary all over, destitute of prickles and glands, moderately re- 

 flexed, sometimes finally recurved over the fruit, which is of a 

 blueish black. Petals white. 

 1 find nothing to ascertain this as the R. fruticosus of Linn. Fl. 

 Suec. which Weihe and Nees suspect it to be; neither can I 

 positively controvert that opinion. The species requires further 

 investigation. 



8. R. suherectus. Red-fruited Bramble. 



Stems angular, ascending, smooth ; branches roundish. 

 Prickles deflexed. Leaflets five, three, or seven, ovate- 

 heart-shaped, pointed, minutely hairy beneath. Clus- 

 ters simple, hairy, prickly, on lateral leafy branches. 

 Calyx slightly hairy, unarmed. 



R. suberectus. Anderson Tr.of L. Soc.v. 11. 218. t. 16. Engl. 



Bot. V. 36. t. 2572. Comp. 79. Hook. Scot. 159. 

 R. nessensis. " Hall Tr. of R. Soc. Edinb. v. 3. 20." 

 R. fastigiatus. Weihe and Nees Rub. Germ. 14, /. 2 ? 



In thickets and woods. 



On the banks of Loch Ness. Mr. W. Hall. About the Devil's 

 bridge, Cardiganshire, and in other parts of Wales, as well as 

 in the highlands of Aberdeen and Perthshire, and in Dallow 

 Gill, near Ripley, Yorkshire. Mr. G. Anderson. On the hills of 

 Forfarshire. Mr. G. Don, from himself. At Frtint, near Tun- 

 bridge Wells. Mr. E. Forster. In Ashdown forest, Sussex. Mr. 

 Borrer. 



Shrub. July, August. 



The stems, as Mr. Anderson observes, are biennial, flowering the 

 second year, and no more, like those of the Raspberry; they 

 grow nearly upright, without any support, and are about 3 or 4 

 feet high, bluntly angular, brittle, reddish, leafy, destitute of 

 hairs, but armed with scattered, deflexed, scarcely hooked, 

 prickles, much smaller than in any of the foregoing species, and 

 generally not above a line or two long ; when larger they are 

 dilated or elongated at the base. The &ower'mgstems bear several 

 lateral, alternate, spreading, simple or compound branches, 

 whose leaves are ternate, the uppermost simple, each branch 

 hairy, and more or less prickly, terminating in a long, simple, 

 bracteated, hairy cluster of 10 or 12 large, white, upright 

 powers. Bracfeas lanceolate, hairy, not hoary ,• sometimes cut 



