RUBUS. 95 
subglobose; torus subsessile.—Valley of the Wye below Mon- 
mouth, plentiful. Mr. Hort. Sh. VI. VII. ; 
11. R. ineurvatus (Bab.); st. angular, prickles strong patent 
or declinig much enlarged and compressed at their base, 1. 5- 
nate coriaceous shining above very soft and grey beneath margins 
incurved and wavy, term. lt. cordate-ovate acuminate, pan. nar- 
row compact leafy below with short patent corymbose branches 
very hairy and tomentose at the top, prickles strong but slender 
deflexed, fr.-sep. ovate-attenuate.—St. purple, strong; prickles 
purple, tip yellow. lL. coated with thick strong soft grey velvet 
beneath. Base of fl.-shoot hairy. Pet. elliptical, pmk. Styles 
flesh-coloured below. Primordial fr. hemispherical; torus ovate. 
—Heaths and open woods. Lilanberis, N. Wales. Milford, 
Pemb. Shrewsbury. Ambleside. Sh. VII. VII. E. 
12. R. rhamnifolius (W. and N.); st. angular furrowed, prickles 
patent or declining, /. 5-nate coriaceous thick flat opaque above 
grey tomentose beneath, term. It. ovate or cordate-cuspidate, 
basal lts. stalked not imbricate, pan. pyramidal compact above 
with distant axillary few-flowered racemose branches below to- 
mentose, prickles strong declining — E. B, 2604. R.G.6. R. 
cordifolius R. G. 5.—St. bright red. Prickles yellow or tipped 
with red. IL. with hard shining grey or nearly green tomentum 
beneath, finely and equally serrate. Pet. roundish, white. Styles 
greenish. Primordial fr. oblong, very large ; drupes many, black, 
dullish, rather flattened, insipid— Hedges and thickets. Sh. VII. 
VIII. 
iv. Villicaules. St. pilose (hairs often deciduous), often stel- 
lately downy (i. e. with very short stellate hairs, often ad- 
pressed), with scattered subsessile or slightly stalked glands 
or avery few sete. Prickles chiefly on the angles of the 
stem, rarely a few scattered smaller ones. Sepals reflexed 
(in all except R. Balfourianus and R. Sprengelii). Basal 
leaflets stalked and not imbricate (i.e. not overlapping the 
intermediate pair) (in all except L. Balfourtanus). 
13. R. Grabowskii (Weihe) ; st. arched angular nearly glabrous 
with a few hairs and subsessile glands on the young shoots, 
rickles many nearly equal (a few smaller) declining from a large 
frase, 1. 5-nate opaque above ashy and downy beneath unequally 
dentate, term. It. broadly cordate cuspidate on the fl.-shoot very 
broad below, pan. long compound prickly leafy below, branches 
ascending racemose-corymbose few lower axillary upper gradually 
shorter, rachis hairy, prickles very large hooked, sep. hairy and 
tomentose with sunken yellow sete and aciculi—st. ultimately 
purple, prickles on its end deflexed; I have not seen seta upon 
it.—Cadeby, Leicestershire. Sh. VIII. 
14. R. thyrsoideus (Wimm.) ; st. angular furrowed subglabrous, 
prickles declining or hooked, J. 5-nate coriaceous grey hairy and 
