ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 143 



Leaflets five or three, downy beneath. Panicle and 

 calyx very prickly and hairy, with copious glandular 

 bristles. 



fVoods, thickets, hedges. Near Newbury. Mr. Bicheno. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Panic, corymbose. Pet. white, narrow.) 



(R. nitidus. Smooth Shining B. Stems bluntly angu- 

 lar, spreading, smooth. Prickles hooked. Leaflets 

 five or three, somewhat hairy beneath. Panicle and 

 calyx sparingly prickly, without bristles. W. and N. 



17. 4. 



Thickets, woods. On Snelsmore Common, near Newbury. Mr. 



Hicheno. 

 Shrub. July, August. 

 Panic, mostly simple. Pet. broadish.) 



* * Stems shrubby, round. 



R. idcBUS, Raspberry. Stems round, erect, smooth, 

 with downy branches ; their prickles straight and 

 slender. Leaves winged, of five or three egg-shaped, 

 rather angular leaflets, very downy beneath. Clusters 

 prickly, somewhat compound. Flowers drooping. E. 

 B. 2442. G. E. 1272. 



Mountainous woods, thickets. Stokenchurch, Mungewell. Sb. 

 Near Witney. BIr. Haines, Radcliffe Library. 



Shrub. May. 



Stem shrubby, four f., branched, leafy, rough with small prickles. 

 Ls. lower ones winged, upper ones in threes only : leaf., egg- 

 shaped, sharply saw -toothed, strongly veined, green, above 

 slightly downy, snow-white, cottony beneath. Foot-stalks chan- 

 , nelled above, downy and prickly like the fl. -stalks. Pet. small, 

 greenish -white. Fruit crimson, pulpy grains numerous, set 

 with permanent styles : of a delicious perfume, and flavour. 

 The fresh Is., a favourite food of kids. 



R. corylifoliiis. Hazel-leaved B. Stems round, spread- 

 ing ; barren ones somewhat angular. Prickles scat- 

 tered, straight, bent downwards. Leaflets five or three, 

 roundish-heart-shaped ; finely hairy beneath. Panicle 

 minutely angular, as well as the bent-back calyx. E. 

 B. 827. 



Hedges, thickets. 



Shrub. July. 



Discrim. From R. fruticosus, by its roundish stem, much more 

 bi'ittle, all the prickles nearly straight. Leafl. stalkless, or 



