312 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
The stems are biennial, and flower the second year, like those of the com- 
mon raspberry, afterwards dying off. The fruit consists of a small number of 
dark red, or blood-coloured, aggregate grains, agreeably acid, with some fla- 
vour of the raspberry ; whence it has been recommended by some as perhaps. 
not unworthy of cultivation. 
2. R. arFrnis Weihe § Nees. The related Bramble. 
Identification. Weihe and Nees’s Bun Germanici, p. 22. t. 3, and 36.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 560.5 
syne ioe patos thy flowing; —B. clans Daeg tig Sih a Bag or, 
Poli Ag SWreike and Nees’s R. &., t. 3. and 36.; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2714.; and our fig. 528, 
Spec. Char, §c. Stem arched, 
angled, prickly with strong re- 
curved prickles, glabrous. Leaf. 
lets 3—5 in a leaf, ovate with 
a heart-shaped base, cuspidate, 
sharply serrated, flat at the base, 
a little waved towards the tip, 
having downy tomentum beneath. 
Flowers in a compound panicle, 
the component ones cymose. Se- 
pals ovate-acuminate, externally 
naked, reflexed. Carpels large, 
blue-black. (Dec. Prod.) A low 
bramble. Germany, also of barren 
hills of Montpelier, and of Britain, 
in boggy places. Flowers white ; 
July and August. 58, Rubus affinis. 
Variety. : 
* R. a. 2 bractedsus Ser. R.u. y and 6, Weihe and Nees’s Rubi Germ. 
t. 3. b. — Bracteas very broad, undivided. 
2 3. R.micra‘NTaus D.Don. The small-flowered Bramble. 
Identification. Don Prod. Fl. Nepal., p. 235.; Dec. 
Prod., 2. p. 557.3; Don’s Mill, 2. p- 530, 
Synonyme. KR. paucifldrus Lindley in Bot. Reg., Hort. 
Brit. n. 13500. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 854., as B. paucifldrus 
dndl. ; and our fig. 529. representing a sprig to the 
usual scale, and he . 530. and 531. representing the 
flowers and fruit of the natural size. 
Spec, Char., §c. Upright. Stem round, 
branched, and bearing awl-shaped in- 
flexed prickles, or straicht prickles, and 
the branches recurved ones. Young 
branchlets rather glaucous at the ex. 
tremity. Leaf pinnate, of 5—7 leaflets, 
that are ovate or oblong, mucronate, 
doubly serrated, plaited; green and glossy ie 
above ; whitishly tomentose, or else glau- ou 
cous, beneath. Petiole and rachis bear- SAS Abus BUCER HS 
ing prickles here and there. Petiole pilose. Stipules 
lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous. Flowers 
small, reddish purple, disposed in a 
corymbose panicle. Petals clawed, 
shorter than the sepals, (Dec. Prod.) 
A gigantic bramble. Nepal. Stems 
8ft. to 20ft. Introd. 1822. Flowers 
bright reddish purple ; May to August. 
Fruit black; ripe in August. Naked 
90. Ribas sucrGathuse young wood of a dark mahogany colour. 
