RUBUS. 101 
25. E. B.S, 2605.—In the typical plant (a and 8. ed. 2) the term. 
It. varies from gradually acuminate to abruptly cuspidate, the 
prickles often nearly cover the st., branches of pan. often with 
very many straight slender prickles. Prickles of pan. all straight 
and slender, or a few of the largest hooked and broad-based, 
rarely nearly all so— Hedges and thickets. Sh. VII. VIII. 
b. Basal Its. subsessile, usually imbricate. 
31. R. fusco-ater (Weihe ?); st. arched or decumbent angular 
slightly hairy, prickles many subpatent straight from a com- 
pressed base unequal, aciculi and setee many, 1. rugose above pale 
green beneath, term. lt. cordate-ovate acuminate, pan. long nar- 
rowish leafy naked above with short erect-patent subracemose 
branches, prickles strong longest about the middle of the fi.-shoot, 
hairs aciculi and sete mostly short and equal.—R. G. 26 ?—L. 
mostly soft beneath. I believe R. Schleicheri (Leight., not 
Weihe) is a form of this.—8. aculeatus ; prickles from a very 
large base declining, 1. grey and tomentose beneath, term. It. obo- 
vate, basal Its. stalked not imbricate, leafless top of pan. with 
short few-flowered divaricate branches, prickles very many, hairs 
aciculi and sete many unequal.—y. R. Colemanni (Blox.); 
prickles nearly equal often with deciduous glandular tips, hairs 
aciculi and setz very few deciduous, basal Its. not quite sessile 
not imbricate, leafless top of pan. with short few-flowered divari- 
cate branches, prickles many, aciculi and sete rather few.— 
Hedges and thickets. 8. near Monmouth. y. Leicestershire and 
Warwickshire. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 
C. L. 3-nate or 5-nate-pedate ; basal Its. stalked, not wmbri- 
cate. Prickles passing rather abruptly into acicult and 
sete. 
32. R. pyramidalis (Bab.); st. decumbent roundly angular, 
prickles many short strong with avery large base much declining 
straight or slightly hooked, hairs few, aciculi and sete nearly 
equal short strong, 1. 3-nate rarely 5-nate-pedate green and pilose 
on both sides dentate-serrate, Its. of 3-nate 1. nearly equal with 
decurved edges, term. lt. obovate cuspidate, pan. pyramidal leafy 
below its top and branches tomentose racemose, ‘prickles slender 
straight, hairs and unequal sete many, rachis straight and rigid. 
—R. Menkii var. Lees !|—St. quite procumbent, |. paler and more 
pilose beneath. Pan. remarkably pyramidal; uppermost branches 
1-flowered. Sep. with long setaceous points, their base adpressed 
to the fruit. Pet. very narrow, often numerous.—Llanberis, 
N. Wales. Culbone, Somerset. Sh. VI. VITI. 
33. R. Giintheri (Weihe); st. decumbent roundly angular, 
prickles weak unequal declining, aciculi sete and hairs nearly 
equal short, 1. 3-nate or 5-nate-pedate green and pilose on both 
