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XXYIL PtOSACEyE : ROSE^. 



[^Rubus, 



t. 26G4. K. leucostacbys Sm.: E. B. S, t. 2631. K macro 

 phvllus IF, et N. : E, B, S. t. 2625. 



Hedges, thickets, and woods. I7 . 7, 8.- — This and the last 



ap- 

 pear to be merely the two extremes of the same form, between which 



there are, it is to be feared, many intermediate states. 



2. (5) R. corylifdliiis Sm. {Hazehleaved B.) ; stem arched 

 rooting nearly glabrous, prickles scattered nearly equal without 

 aciculte or glandular hairs or seta?, leaflets quinate or ternate 

 without close white down underneath. E. B, t. 827. 



Hedges and thickets. Ti. 7, 8. — Scarcely distinct from the two 

 preceding, 



2. (6) ^. glandidosus Bell. ( ^^ laiidular B .) ; stem arched or 

 decumbent rooting hairy not glaucous, prickles scattered un- 

 equal with copious acicula? or seta3, leaflets quinate or ternate 

 without close white down underneath, calyx erect patent or 

 reflexed in fruit, E. B. S. t. 2883. R, Koehleri TF. et Nr 

 E. B. S. t. 2605. 



Woods, thickets, and hedges, Tj . 7, 8. 



2. (7) R. ccB^sius L. (Deivherrjj) ; stem prostrate or arched 

 rooting more or less glaucous, prickles scattered unequal with 

 (sometimes very few) set^, leaflets ternate or quinate without 

 close white down underneath, calyx closely clasping the fruit 

 E. B. t. 826. 



+ 



, Thickets, hedge-banks, and borders of fields. T2 . 6, 7 The two 



last are probably extremes of the same thing ; but if distinct, we 

 would refer the plants with stems copiously covered with acicufe or 

 set^ to the former, although the calyx almost clasps the fruit ; and 

 to the latter those with few acicula^ and seise but with a calyx clasp- 

 ing the fruit, although the stem be scarcely glaucous.^ 



^:^^ l^eojlefs ternate. Stem herbaceous or nearly so. 



3. E. saxdtUis L, (Stone B.)\ stems slender rooting herba- 

 ceous nearly unarmed, flower-shoots erect with a panicle of few 

 flowers, leaflets ternate, slightly downy. E. B. t. 2233. 



Stony mountainous places, especially in the north. 

 Rooting stems or runners annual; erect ones slender. 8 



1/.. 6—8.- 

 10 inches 



<• 1 We are almost quite convinced — practically, not only because the characters 

 taken Trom the young shoots, and disappearing when they are older and begin to 

 blossom, are not permanent, but because none of the reputed species of the shrubby 

 Brambles are either anatomically or physiologically distinct, all passing into each 

 other without any fixed assignable limit; and, theoretically, from a consideration 

 of what \& requisite to constitute a difference between the other European species 

 of BubuSi that all of the present section are mere varieties approaching on the one 

 side to B, idiz^us^ on the other to B. saxatills, with both of which many fertile ana 

 permanent hybrids may have been forme(^, and are still forming. We have, how- 

 ever, presented above (though without any attempt to give synonyms, except a 

 reference to E. Bat.) what we consider the more prominent forms or races, nuni- 

 bering them as if only (•onsl:ituting a sincle species, and have indicated how those 

 ought perhaps to be reduced to four types. ' . 



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