142 ICOSANDRTA POLYGYNTA. Rubus. 



RUBUS.' Bramble,^ Raspberry.^ 



Species of this genus, discriminated with difficulty. 

 * Stem shruhby, angular. 



Ti.Jruticosus. Common Bramble^ or Blackbe7'ry . Stems 

 angular, furrowed ; barren ones arched and lengthened 

 out. Prickles hooked. Leaves pedate, (bird-footed,) 

 of five, stalked, egg-oblong leaflets ; white and downy 

 beneath. Panicle cylindrical, twice compound. Calyx 

 bent back, unarmed. E. B. 715. Rubus. G. E. 1272. 



Hedges, thickets, woods. 



Shrub. June. 



Stems long, trailing in an arched manner, woody, purplish. Ls. 

 leaflets stalked, green, shining above. Slip, bristle-shaped. F'L- 

 patiicles terminal, downy. F'l. blush-coloured, or pink, some- 

 times w^hite. Berry violet-black, fulsome, sweet. Green twigs 

 astringent, used for dying woollen, and silk black. Ls. food for 

 silk-worms. 



R. rhamnifolius. Buckthorn-leaved B. Stems angular, 

 furrowed ; barren ones arched. Prickles bent down- 

 wards, straight. Leaves slightly pedate, of five, or 

 three orbicular, inversely egg-shaped, or somewhat 

 heart-shaped, pointed leaflets ; hoary beneath. Panicle 

 twice compound, finely hairy. Calyx spreading. W. 

 and N. 20. 6. See E. B. Suppl. 



Woods, hedges. Abundant in woods about Tangley, Oxfordshire. 

 Mr. Bicheno. 



Shrub. June, July. 



(R, leucostdchys. White-clustered B. Stems angular, 

 downy. Prickles bent downwards, slightly hooked. 

 Leaves of five or three roundish egg-shaped, or heart- 

 shaped, pointed, jagged leaflets ; hoary beneath. Pa- 

 nicle cylindrical, and, like the unarmed bent-back calyx, 

 minutely glandular. See E. B. Suppl. 



Woods, thickets. About Newbury. Mr. Bicheno. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Pubescence shaggy and shining.) 



(^K. glandulosus. Glandular B. Stems angular ; branches 

 and foot-stalks hairy, with glandular bristles inter- 

 spersed. Prickles bent downwards, partly hooked. 



' More on this Genus, and those of Rosa, and Salix, in our Supplement. R. W. 

 ^ Ang. Sax. ^ From the resemblance of the fruit to a rasp, or file. 



