RUBUS. 



beneath. St'iptilas linear. Flowers in pairs at the end of 

 each branch, drooping. Segments of the calyx broad- 

 ovate, very downy, with fhort naked tips. Petals broad 

 and roundifh, as long as the calyx. Of the fruit we are 

 ignorant. 



10. R. flrigofus. Rough-ftalked American Bramble. 

 Michaux Boreali-Amer. v. I. 29". Purfh n. 3. (R. pen- 

 fylvanicus ; Lamarck Dift. v. 6. 246.) — " Leaves pinnate, 

 of five, or three, oval, pointed leaflets ; downy and white 

 beneath. Stem eredt, very briftly, without thorns. Flowers 

 axillary, folitary ; their ftalks and calyx hifpid." — Native 

 of the mountains from Canada to Virginia, flowering in 

 June and July; berries very agreeably flavoured. Purjh. 

 The branches, flalks, and ribs of the leaves, Jlower-falks and 

 calyx, are all very hifpid, but not prickly. Micht 



11. R. Commerfonii. Commerfonian Bramble. Poiret in 

 Lamarck DicL v. 6. 240. — " Leaves pinnate, of feven, or 

 five, leaflets, fmooth on both fides. Stem prickly. Flowers 

 terminal or axillary, nearly folitary. Calyx with long 

 points." — Found by Commerfon in fhady mountainous parts 

 of the ifland of Java. Poiret lays it has fome relationfhip 

 to R. ideeus, but the leaflets are finaller, fmooth on both 

 fides, and the flowers larger. Prickles nearly ftraight, fcat- 

 tered. Leaflets narrow, cut and ferrated ; the odd one 

 fometimes lobed. Foot/talks cylindrical, prickly. Petals 

 white, roundifh, fcarcely longer than the calyx. Fruit red- 

 difh, the fize of rafpberries, but with a much lefs agreeable 

 tafte and fmell. We have feen no fpecimen. 



12. R. occidentalis. Virginian Rafpberry. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 706. Willd. n. 5. Ait. n. 2. Porih n. 6. ( R. idseus, 

 fruftu nigro, virginianus ; Dill. Elth. 327. t. 247.) — Leaves 

 ternate, taper-pointed, doubly ferrated ; downy and white 

 beneath. Footltalks nearly cylindrical ; prickly and glau- 

 cous, like the ftem. Prickles hooked, duffers terminal, 

 very prickly. — Native of rocky mountainous fituations, 

 from Canada to Carolina, flowering in May and June. 

 Cultivated in Chelfea garden, before the year 1696, accord- 

 ing to Plukenet. The Jleni is round, confpicuous for its 

 peculiarly fine glaucous bloom, even in a dried ltate. Leaves 

 all ternate, the fide leaflets often furnifhed with a lateral 

 notch, or lobe. Prickles on the fawer-fla/is remarkably 

 numerous, and hooked. Petals fmall, white, commonly 

 emarginate. Fruit bhck, fometimes red, fweetifh, but not 

 highly flavoured. Seeds wrinkled. 



13. R. triphyllus. Three-leaved Japanefe Bramble. 

 Plumb. Jap. 215. Willd. n. 6. — Leaves ternate, rounded, 

 cut and coarfely ferrated ; entire at the bafe ; downy and 

 white beneath. Branches, footllalks, and flower-ftalks hairy 

 and prickly. Flowers fomewhat racemefe. — Gathered by 

 Thunberg in Japan. Stem round, fmooth, purplifh, with 

 flender, fpreading, wavy tranches, which are hairy and mi- 

 nutely prickly. Leaflets rounded, broad and abrupt, nearly 

 fmooth above, of a thin and pliant fubftance. Flowerflalks 

 .cry fhaggyjuft under the calyx, which is downy and white, 

 with long taper points. Petals erec\, obovate, crenate, with 

 long claws. This fpecies is in reality more akin to our 

 Rafpberry than any other, though perhaps fufficiently dif- 

 t;n£t. We have no knowledge of the fruit. 



14. R. iomentofu:. Velvet-leaved Bramble. Willd. n. 7. 

 Sm. Prodr. Fl. Graec. Sibth. v. 1. 349. (R. etneus, tri- 

 folius rectus candicans ac pilofus ; Cupan. Panphyt. v. 1. 

 t. 149.) — Leaves ternate, or quinate, obovate, unequally 

 ferrated, all over hoary, very (oft and downy ; paler be- 

 neath. Stem and footltalks with hooked prickles. Panicle 

 downy, many-flowered. Bra£teas linear-lanceolate, fome- 

 times three-cleft. — Native of Germany, Switzerland, the 

 neighbourhood of Constantinople, and the country about 



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mount Etna. We know no figure of this fpecies, except 

 in the very rare old work of Cupani, where it is extremely 

 well reprefented, nor does any iyltematic author but Will- 

 denow defcribe it. Botanifls have molt unaccountably con- 

 founded it with the common R. frulicofus, from which, and 

 every other known fpecies, it is diftinguilhed by the pecu- 

 liar and uniform foft pubefcence of its leaves, equalling 

 that of the Marfh Mallow. The leaflets vary in fhape, but 

 are always contracted towards their bafe. They are ufually 

 three, the lateral ones fometimes lobed at the lower edge. 

 We have a fpecimen with five diitindt leaflets, the lower- 

 moft pair lmallelt, growing out of the partial footltalks 

 of the next. r rhejlem is angular, doway, with manv uni- 

 form, rather fmall, ftrongly hooked prickles, fuch as oceu: 

 alfo on the footftalks. Flowers large and abundant, with 

 obovate, white, fpreading petals, twice as long as the 

 calyx, whofe fegments are ovate, finely downy, with 

 fmall points. The bradeas are more pale and mem- 

 branous than in fruiieofus. Stipulas linear, very narrow, 

 hairy- This fpecies is unknown in England, either wild 

 or cultivated. 



15. R. cuneif alius. Wedge-leaved American Bramble. 

 Purfli n. 5. ( R. parvifolius ; Walt. Carol. 149.) — " Leaves 

 digitate, of three or five obovate-wedge-fhaped leaflets ; 

 unequally toothed upwards, plaited, entire at the margin, 

 revolute ; downy beneath. Stem, footftalks, and flovver- 

 ftalks downy, with fcattered recurved prickles. Cluflers 

 terminal, panicled ; the partial flower-ltalks divaricated, 

 and almoft naked." — In fandy fields and woods, from New 

 Jerfey to Carolina, flowering in June and July. A drag- 

 gling briar, of a grey afped ; the berries hard and dry. 

 Pur/L. Not having feen this plant, we have given, as 

 nearly as poffible, a tranflation of Mr. Purfh's fpeciiic cha- 

 racter, though we do not quite understand what regards 

 the leaves. 



16. R. ellipticus. Oval-leaved Indian Bramble. — Leaves 

 ternate, elliptical, finely ferrated ; downy and hoary be- 

 neath : the lower ones fimple, fomewhat three-lobed. Stem 

 and footltalks hifpid, downy, and prickly. Panicle denfe, 

 hairy. — Gathered by Dr. Buchanan, in January and April 

 1802, about the Itony banks of rivulets in Nepaul. This 



Jhrub is ten or twelve feet high, with long, climbing, an- 

 gular, zigzag, leafy branches, not oi.lv clothed with foft 

 down, and copious rigid prominent bridles, hut alfo bear- 

 ing fcattered, hooked, ftrong, though not large, prickles. 

 The footftalks are fimilarly furnifhed Leaflets much re- 

 fembling thole of a common Brovins Role in fhape and 

 lerratures, but rather larger, and only tLrce to each leaf ; 

 fmooth above; their under furface grey or whitifh with 

 fine down ; the veins parallel, llraight, (trongly marked. 

 Stipulas fetaceous. The lower laves, and fmall axillary 

 ones, are fimple, occafionally three-lobed; Panicle termi- 

 nal, denfe, fhorter than the leaves, compound. Flowers 

 not very numerous. Call downy. Petals white, longer 

 than the calyx. Berries yellow, pleafantly flavoured. Seeds 

 wrinkled, numerous. 



1 7. R. hifpidus. Briftly American 'Bramble. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 706. Willd. n. 8. Ait. n. 3. Purfh 11. 7. — Leaves 

 ternate, ftrongly ferrated, fmooth on both fides. Stems 

 trailing, round, hifpid as well as the footftalks. Cluflers 

 terminal, flender, fomewhat hifpid, of few flowers. — Ga- 

 thered in Canada by Kalm, wh ^fe lpeeimen is before us. 

 The flems are very long and trailing, clothed with copious, 

 brown, reflexed bridles, without prickles, as are alfo .the 



footftalks. Leaflets of a Aiming green ; the middle one 

 obovate ; the others dilated, and often lobed at the outer 

 edge ; all acute, unequally ferrated. Flowers few, with 



linear, 



