6 KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 
typical,” The 3-nate 1., with large, nearly equal, finely serrate 
lts., and the very short patent-branched, few-flowered pan., are the 
most characteristic features. 
long, finely aciculate. Stam. scarcely exceeding the styles. L. of 
the barren st. 3-nate and 45-nate-pedate. Lts. green and hairy on 
both sides, wnequally serrate ; term. 8-5 times longer than its stalk, 
yvate, cordate-ovate or oblong-obovate with emarginate base, cuspidate. 
Rather polymorphic ; chiefly distinguishable by the short stalk of 
the term. lt.” Mostly confined to wooded hills. Found in great 
quantity on the hills above Tintern, 
onm., by Rev. A. Ley, a 
small prostrate plant with very long Its. and a markedly flexuose 
short pan 
80. R. airrus W. & K.—« St. prostrate from a low base, more 
rarely climbing, roundish, only indistinctly angled near the top, 
more or less hairy, densely covered with stalked glands, glandular 
bristles and acicles. L. principally 3-nate; in strong shoots mixed 
with 5-nate ones. ts. coarsely and (in their upper part) often un- 
densely hairy on the nerves beneath; term. 3-4 times as long as its 
re 
varying in shape. Flowering branches not seldom sessile, many- 
flowered ; the normal ones, on the branches of the 2-year-old st., 
‘ ng, white. am. numerous, 
rather exceeding the styles. Fr. globular, with small drupelets, 
Very polymorphic and widely distributed . . . the type does not 
occur in the W. German ranges and Switzerland, but countless 
indefinable vars, and closely related forms are to be found.” 
Hug!. Bot. Suppl. to 8rd ed. pp. 117, 118.—St. deeply striate, hairy 
e@ qd lini selc] d ariclac) yal] rel; : 
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alrs; term. roundish elliptic, with short point. Pan.- 
with long points, ultimately clasping. 
form in thickets and bushy 
(where both pan. and lts, 
