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and stalked glands (but so small as to be inconspicuous) on the lower 

 part. Prickles very crowded, unequal and scattered, though placed 

 chiefly on the angles, and there more nearly equal, rather slender, 

 chiefly falcate, with some declining ones intermixed, from com- 

 pressed base. L. 5-nate-pedate or digitate. Lts. subcoriaceous, 

 dull or yellowish green above, much paler, soft with shining short 

 hairs, and not unfrequently ashy-felted beneath, with wavy compound 

 and at times almost lobate- serrate edges, the teeth being crowded, 

 long, acutely pointed, and occasionally patent or recurved; temn. obovate 

 cuspidate-acuminate, considerably narrowed to the rounded nearly 

 entire base; interm. obovate, unequal-sided, often gibbous below; 

 bas. very shortly stalked ; petioles, petiolules and (to some extent) 

 midribs strongly armed with hooked prickles. Pan. with broad 

 rounded ultra-axillary top composed of few-flowered patent or divari- 

 cate branches, sessile or shortly-stalked term, fl., and usually 1-3 

 floral 1. ; the two or three axillary branches being few-flowered, 

 distant and ascending, usually exceeded by the 3-nate 1., and when 

 lengthened becoming remarkably erect, so preserving the cylindrical 

 outline of the pan. ; the rachis densely hairy and felted above, with 

 many slender prickles (like those on st.) and unequal stalked glands 

 mostly exceeded by the long patent hairs. Sep. felted, aciculate 

 and glandular, patent or clasping fr. Pet. rather large, obovate, 

 clawed, white or pinkish. Stam. white, exceeding greenish styles. 

 Commons and hedges ; locally abundant in S. Engl. (Wight, Dors., 

 Somers., Glost.). A very early flowerer. 



The above description, drawn mainly from fresh Dors, plants, 

 agrees exactly with Salter's beautiful specimens (Wight) in the 

 Borrer Herbarium at Kew. It seems a well-marked bramble, 

 distinct from all Sprengelii forms, and best placed in this group. 



49. R. Drejeri G. Jensen, Flor. Dan. 3023 (1883).— St. angular, 

 of a pale yellowish brown, and looking almost as if varnished, usually 

 with rather few scattered hairs ; sometimes nearly as much armed 

 as in the Koehleriani, at other times (especially in shade) hardly 

 more than in ordinary R. mucronatus ; stalked glands usually few, 

 and, like the more numerous acicles, unequally scattered ; the 

 larger prickles (chiefly on the angles) strong, declining or deflexed 

 from long compressed base. L. usually large, 5-nate-pedate. Lts. 

 subglabrous above, paler, with very short hairs beneath, felted 

 when young and on pan., sharply and almost simply serrate ; term. 

 subrotund- ovate acuminate, with remarkably rounded even outline, sub- 

 cordate or round-based ; petioles and petiolules strongly armed and 

 coloured like st. Pan, chiefly ultra-axillary, narrowing to the top, 

 and sometimes simply racemose above ; rachis hairy, very glandular, 

 with many rather weak declining prickles. Sep. narrow, acuminate, 

 greenish-felted, aciculate and glandular, mostly patent or clasping 

 in fr. Pet. obovate attenuate. Stam. far exceeding styles. Woods 

 and bushy places (Heref., Wilts, Dev., Cornw., &c). 



When not growing in deep shade, a well-marked plant, from its 

 light yellowish colour, the rounded formal outline of its acuminate 

 Its., and the decreasing ultra-axillary pan. I follow Dr. Focke in 

 putting it into this section. He considers it allied to E.fusco-ater. 



