154 ROSACE*. [Blibvf:. 



X. RuBus,* Linn. Bramble. Raspberry. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5. Fruit superior, of several single- 

 seeded juicy drupes, placed upon a protuberant spongy receptacle. 



* Stem erect, biennial. 



Group i. SuBERECTi, Lindl. Stevi upright, biennial ; leaves pin- 

 nate or digitate (fruit variable in colour). 



1. R. idanis, L. Common Raspberry . Stem prickly-setose, 

 leaves pinnate, leaflets tomentose beneath, flowers drooping, petals 

 erect. E. B. t. 2442. Br. Fl. pp. 119 and 584. 



/3. trifoliatus. Stem shining, leaves ternate. 



Thickets and moist heaths, frequent. /3. Less common. Fl. May, June. Fr. 

 July, August. Ij . 



E. Med. — In a marshy wood near the Medina, above Blackwater, in conside- 

 rable plenty ; in the Parsonage Lynch, Newchurch ; Bordwood Lynch ; abun- 

 dantly in a boffgy thicket about a quarter of a mile West of Walklands, also in 

 Horringford withy-bed, W. A. B. In Appuldurcombe park, A. Hamhrough, Esq. 

 St. George's Down, O. Kirkpatrick, Esq. On the cliff between Foreland fann 

 and Lane-end, Bembridge. In sandy hollows in Moreton-lane, Brading. With 

 pale or amber-coloured fruit, in a withy-bed by Shide Mill, as I learn from 

 a servant of Dr. Bell-Sailer, W. A. B. Also with pale fruit, on Apse heath. 



/3. In Moreton-lane, by Brading. 



Leaflets S—7, white beneath. Fruit very pulpy, usually scarlet, rarely amber- 

 coloured. Prickly seta usually dark red, pale in the plants bearing amber-coloured 

 fruit. Plant spreading by suckers. 



As Mr. Borrer finds the Wild Raspberry abundantly in the Sussex forests, there 

 is no reason fur supposing it to be otherwise than indigenous to the Isle of Wight, 

 though, like the Red and Black Currant, most plentiful in the colder parts of 

 Britain and the continent. Honest Gerarde tells us the fruit is " in taste not 

 very pleasant," an opinion rather at variance with the prevailing one of the pre- 

 sent day, and we suspect of his own age also. W. A. B. 



2. R. suberectus. And. Eed-frtdted Bramble. Stem without 

 hairs or setse round, prickles straight small few or many, leaves 

 pinnate or digitate, leaflets cordate acuminate, flowers erect, petals 

 spreading slightly exceeding the calj'x. E. B. t. 2572. Br. Fl. 

 p. 584. Fl. Dan. xii. t. 1992 ? W. A. B. 



p. trifoliatus. Prickles few, leaves ternate. 



Boggy heaths and wet places, not frequent. FL June, July. Ij. 



* [It had hmg been an understanding between our lamented author and his 

 friend Dr.'Bell-Saller, that the latter gentleman should supply, when required for 

 publication, the genus Rubus for the ' Flora Vectensis.' As subsequently to this 

 promise Dr. Bell-Salter has contributed an abridged synopsis of the genus, pub- 

 lished as an appendix lo the last edition of the ' British Flora,' the Editors, by 

 quoting from this supplement, and adding the localities he has supplied them 

 with, have been able to carry out the understanding of the author without depart- 

 ing from the uniformity of their plan in the publication of his work. The Editors 

 prefer making this general statement, rather than that the whole genus should be 

 enclosed in brackets or marked as quotations, and the very few remarks or localities 

 recorded by the author they have authenticated with his initials. — Edrs.'] 



