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KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 



almost wholly confined to angles, strongly declining from large 

 compressed base. L. mostly 3-nate. ■ Lts. subequal and remarkably 

 uniform, thin, rather finely dentate-serrate, opaque and hairy above, 

 paler and softly hairy beneath ; term, obovate-cuspidate or cuspidate- 

 acuminate, with narrow emarginate or entire base. Pan. pyramidal 

 (when large, remarkably so), racemose above; rachis and ped. 

 straight, rigid, felted and densely clothed with short white hair, and 

 purple stalked glands and acicles ; prickles few, slender, declining. 

 Sep. triangular-attenuate, patent or loosely clasping fr. Pet. very 

 narrow, white or slightly greenish white. Stam. white, exceeding 

 reddish styles. Flowering shoot frequently prostrate for a con- 

 siderable distance. Most of the branches ascending, but remarkably 

 straight and rigid, like the rachis. In woods and wood-borders 

 S.W. Engl, and Wales. ' 



Usually a very distinct and easily recognised bramble, with its 

 straight pan.-rachis and ped. purplish from the crowded glands, and 

 its rather small uniform 8-nate obovate Its. 



t> 65. R. foliosus W. & N. R. Gitntheri Bab. prius. R. ftexuosus 

 P. J. Muell., 1859 (non Lej., 1824). R. derasus Lej. & Muell. R 

 saltimm Focke, Journ. Bot. 1890, p. 183.— St. 5-gonous, striate and 

 in the stronger plants even sulcate, not glaucous, with a good many 

 subequal acicles, stalked glands and hairs, and numerous very 

 small tubercles. Prickles nearly equal, rather scattered, small, 

 strongly declining or even deflexed from a long compressed base. 

 L. mostly 3-nate, but with one or more 5-nate-pedate on most of the 

 stronger st., often large. Lts. nearly uniform in outline, with 

 crowd ed acute teeth (only occasionally double), hairy on both sides, 

 thick and white-felted beneath when younq, thinner afterwards, and 

 often only pale green ; term, broadest near the middle, and usually 



narrowing very gradually towards both ends, acuminate, round-based. 



ran. long and narrow, often forming an angle at each leaf, some- 

 times leaty throughout, and then having a considerable number of 

 ovate-acuminate simple 1. above ; branches mostly short and few- 

 flowered, generally fasciculate, erect-patent ; rachis and ped. felted 



Sili«7 a l? and T n ? subsessile P ur P le g^nds ; acicles and 

 declining prickles usually few ; upper I. white-felted beneath. Sep. 



u^1lt? fl ma i e V r f marka . bl y white-felted, glandular, aciculate, 

 usually reflexed, but occasionally patent or loosely clasping in fr. 



S, 7 lte ; about equalling the green or reddish styles. Woods 

 and bushy places ; widely distributed, locally abundant. 



In hi, ™™ ff; isab k at ,a glance, in spite of considerable variation, 

 in his paper lately published in a German Flora, Dr. Focke writes 



« In mS?^? 6 l '^rf- Ee I' E - S " MarshaU f0r the translation) :- 

 stvlrfn^ ? y locall1 f s the stam. are apt to be shorter than the 



rXxk hnt ^r? Untryt + °- be , l0nger - Tlie se P' are as a ™l e 

 pfSj pa * e , nt f n cer t ai11 foj ™s (among others, in R. derasus 



thick Wthi'vl ^ m UG i R -Sf osu ° has thick greenish barren st., 

 andwSfl J ^1^%^ beneath, a more leafy inflorescence 



-whTel flfffJ 2, fZT*?' J> MuelL and A deras ™ P - J- Muell. 



white orbing Uv I fl bj ^ more .P atent sep—are weaker, with 

 wlnte or blue-reddish fl., and greenish styles. R. saltuum Focke is 



