XXVI. ROSA‘CEZ: RU‘BUS. 311 
Sect. HI. Povenrr’turem. 
Genus IX. 
dbl 
RU'BUS L. Tue Bramere. Lin. Syst. Icosandria Polygynia. 
Ideniification._ Lin. Gen., No.364.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.556.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 59. 
Synonymes. Ronce, Framboisier, Fr. ; Himbeere, Brombeerstrauch, Ger. 
Derivation. From rub, red in Celtic ; in reference to the colour of the fruit in some of the species. 
Gen, Char. Calyx flattish at the bottom, 5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamens numerous, 
inserted in the calyx along with the petals. Carpels or Achenia numerous, 
fleshy, disposed in a head upon an elevated torus. Styles lateral, near the 
apex of the carpel. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves compound, digitate, pinnate or lobed, stipulate, deciduous or sub- 
evergreen; with the leaflets usually stalked. Flowers white or pink, in 
terminal racemes. Fruit edible. 
Shrubs, deciduous, subligneous, with prickly stems ; for the most part pro- 
strate, but a few of them growing upright. Some of them, such as R. fruti- 
césus, may be considered as sub-evergeen, as they retain the greater part of 
their leaves in a green state through the winter. All the kinds popularly 
called brambles may be considered as gigantic strawberry plants; and all 
their shoots are used by thatchers, and makers of beehives, straw mats, 
&c. No less than 48 supposed species of the genus are described and figured 
in the Rubi Germanici of Weihe and Nees von Esenbeck. The number of 
species in English Botany is, in Dr. Lindley’s Synopsis of the British Flora, 
21; which, he says, may be reduced to 5, or possibly to 2, exclusive of the her- 
baceous species. In Don’s Miller, 147 are given as the total number described by 
botanists. We shall only notice such as are tolerably distinct, and which are in 
cultivation in British gardens. The propagation of the shrubby, or raspberry-like, 
species of Rubus is effected by suckers or seeds ; that of the bramble division ot 
the genus by pegging down the points of the shoots to the soil, when they will 
root, and throw out other shoots, which may again be pegged down; so that 
plants are procured from brambles much in the same way as from strawberries. 
§ i. Leaves pinnate, of 3—7 Leaflets. 
« 1, R. suBpERE’ctus Anders. The sub-erect Bramble. 
Identification. Anders. in Linn. Soc. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 556.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 534.5 Smith Eng. 
Satan Elen in his Syn. of the Brit. Flora, has given the following : — R. nessénsis Hall, 
R. plicatus W. & N., not of Suppl. to Eng. Bot. t. 2714., which is a smaller form of 2. affinis 
W.& N.; R. corylifolius Wahlen. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 2572. ; and our fig. 527. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem erect. Leaf of never more than 5 leaflets, digitate, occa- 
sionally pinnate, thin, shin- 
ing, and plaited. Flowers in 
simple corymbose racemes. 
Prickles weak. (Lindl.) 
A sub-erect shrub. Britain, 
in moist woods and by the 
sides of rivulets, chiefly 
in the northern counties. 
Stems 3 ft.to 4 ft. Flowers 
white ; June to September. \ 
Fruit pale purple ; ripe in mh 
August. 527. Radbvs euberéctus, 
