408 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 



Clusters prickly, somewhat compound. Flowers pen- 

 dulous. 



R.idaeus. Linn. Sp. PL 706. ffilld. v. 2. \08\. Fl. Br. 541. Engl. 



Bot. V. 34. t. 2442. JVoodv. t. 138. Hook. Scot. 159. Fl. Dan. 



t. 788. Ger. Em. 1272./. Malth. Falgr.v. 2. 357./. Clus. Hist. 



v.l.]l7.f. Dalech. Hist. 123./. Camer. Epit. 752. / bad. 



Ehrh. Arb. 26. 

 R. n. 1 1 08. Hall. Hist. v. 2.41. 

 R. idasus spiiiosus, fructu rubro. Raii Syn.467. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 



59./ 



In mountainous woods and thickets. 



Plentiful in Wales, Scotland, and the north of England. On 

 woody hills between Norwich and Thorpe, truly wild. Mr. 

 Borrer finds it abundantly in some of the forests of Sussex. 



Shrub. May, June. 



Root creeping. Stems biennial, erect, 3 or 4 feet high, branched, 

 round, pale or purplish, more or less besprinkled with small, 

 straight, slender prickles, frequently rather resembling bristles, 

 sometimes said to be altogether wanting; the young leafy 

 flowering-branches arc downy and simple. Leaves pinnate, 

 with 2 pair of lateral leaflets and a larger terminal one; those 

 of the upper or flowering branches usually ternate only ; all the 

 leaflets ovate, acute, serrated, or cut and angular ; green and 

 nearly smooth above ; clothed beneath with white cottony 

 down ; their ribs slightly prickly. Footstalks downy and prickly, 

 with a longitudinal furrow. Stipulas narrow, united laterally to 

 the footstalks, Fl. small, white, pendulous, in drooping, ter- 

 minal, mostly simple, clusters, whose stalks are furnished with 

 hooked prickles, such as are now and then found on the downy 

 wide-spreading calyx. Petals narrow, erect. Fruit crimson, of 

 numerous juicy grains, beset with the permanent styles, and 

 higlily fragrant, with a very deliciously perfumed sweet and acid 

 flavour, more exquisite in the wild state, in general, than when 

 cultivated. There are several garden varieties, one with a pale 

 amber-coloured /nui, and another which bears late in autumn. 



10. R. corijlifol'ms. Hazel-leaved Bramble. 



Stems round, spreading; barren ones somewhat angular. 



Prickles scattered, straight, deflexed. Leaflets fiVe or 



three, roundish-heart-sha]-)cd ; finely hairy beneatli. 



Panicle minutely glandular, as well as the reflexed 



calyx. 



R. corylifolius. Fl. Br. 542. Engl. Bot. v. 12. t. 827. Comp. 79. 



Anders. Tr. of L. Soc. i\ 1 1 . 2 1 y. Hook. Scot. 1 60. 

 R. fruticosus. Elirli. PL Off. 415. Ho^hi. Germ, for 1 800. 23 1 ; 



according to the author. 



