RUBUS. 



linear, fometimes throe-cleft, braBeas. Berries of few 



grains, with large wrinkled feeds. Perhaps this ought to 

 be arranged among the herbaceous fpecies, near faxatilis 

 hereafter described. 



1 8. R. trivialis. Common American Dewberry. Mi- 

 chaux Boreali- Amcr. v. i. 296. Purlh n. 8. — " Leaves 

 ternate, or quinatc, oblong-oval, acute, unequally ferrated, 

 rather downy. Stems trailing. Flower-ftalks folitary, 

 elongated, rough, like the footllalks, with recurved prickly 

 briftles. Stipulas awl-fliaped. Petals obovate, thrice the 



calyx." — Common in old fields, from New 

 land to Carolina, blbflbming in May and June. 

 Flowers large. /Jerries black, large, very agreeably fla- 

 voured, known by the name of Dewberries. Puiflj. 



19. R. flagellar is. Long Trailing American Bramble. 

 " Willd. Enum. 549." Purfh n. 9. ( R. trivialis ; Ait. 

 ii. 7. Purflj.) — Leaves ternate, unequally ierrated, fmooth 

 on both fides. Stems trailing, round, befet, like the foot- 

 llalks, with recurved prickles. Chillers terminal, lax, (len- 

 der, downy, of few flowers. — Native of fields and landy 

 woods, from Virginia to Carolina, flowering in June and 

 July. Purjb. Very nearly akin to R. hifpidus, n. 17, but 

 the leaves are fmnller, and the flan is rather prickly than 

 briftly. The hooked prickles on the footjlalhs are few, and 

 widely fcattered. Petals more orbicular than in the lall ; 

 whether they accord with thole of hifpidus, we have not ma- 

 terials to determine ; but we are greatly inclined to think 

 the prefent is but a variety of that fpecies. 



20. R. inermis. Smooth American Bramble. " Willd. 

 Enum. 548." Purflin. 10. (" R. hifpidus ; Walt. Carol. 

 149 ?") — " Leaves ternate, ovate, acute, unequally ferrated ; 

 downy beneath ; the lateral leaflets fomewhat cut. Stem, 

 footllalks, and flower-llalks unarmed. Stipulas narrow- 

 awl-(haped." — Native of Pennfylvania. We have feen no 

 fpecimen of this fpecies, nor did Mr. Purlh bimfelf meet 

 with it in America. 



21. R. parvif alius . Small leaved Indian Bramble. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 707. Willd. n. 9 ; excluding the fynonym of Rum- 

 phius, which has no affinity to this fpecies, but rather belongs 

 to our fraxinif Jius, n. 2. Leaver ternate, wrinkled, rounded, 

 cut, and crenate ; fomewhat hairy above ; downy and fnow- 

 white beneath. Branches and footilalks downy, with fliort 

 hooked prickles. Stem round. Panicle:; downy and hairy, 

 of few flowers. — Gathered by Olbrck in China. A infer- 

 able fpecimen from him, without flowers, exills in the Lin- 

 na:an herbarium ; but we have very complete ones collected 

 by Dr. Buchanan, at Chitlong in Nepaul, April io, 1802. 

 Their firlt appearance accords very mm with our 

 Common Ralpberry, but the leaflets are all te: 



not pointed, crenate rather than ferrated, as well as n 



wrinkled; and their upper furface, though gn 



with extremely foft hairs, feeling like velvet. The flow 



though few together, are panided rather than (imp! 



nofe ; their very woolly calyx is dellitute of long pointi , 



lhe\r Jla/is are hairy a 1 , will as woolly. We"!'.. 



of the fruit. The fhort.but (trpngand hooked, pricilesmi 



over afford an eflcntial dillinction between thl i, and 



R. 'ulcus. 



22. R. fanclus. Bramble of tin' 1 [oly Land. Si 

 Dec. 15. t. 8. Willd. n. 10. ( R. cretiens triphyllus, 

 Bore parvo ; Tourn. Cor. 43. Pococke's Trav. v. 2. pt. 2. 

 190.) — Leaves ternate, or (imple, downy . be- 

 neath. Brancliesand footltalks downy, with ho. iked prickles. 

 Stem angular. Panicles downy, many-flowered. Native 

 of Crete and Palcllnir. Tbj I has a general 1 ■" mblance to 

 our Britifh R. fruticofus, but has fmaller, more rounded, 



and fewer leaflets. The flowers, and whole plant, are alfo 

 of fmaller dimenfions. We do not however profefs to be 

 well acquainted with the limits of thefe two fpecies, nor has 

 the prelent one been properly inveftigated. 



23. R. jamaicenfis. Jamaica Bramble. Linn. Mant. 7c. 

 Willd. n. 11. Swartz Obf. 205. (R.n. 1; Browne Jam. 

 242. R. foliis longioribus, fubtus molli lanugine obduftis et 

 incanis, flore et fruftu minoribus ; Sloane Jam. v. 2. 109. 

 t. 213. f. 1.) — Leaves ternate, or pedato-quinate, pointed, 

 fharply ferrated ; white and finely downy beneath. Branches, 

 footltalks, and flower-llalks downy, with hooked prickles. 

 Panicles lax. — Native of Jamaica ; frequent in the moun- 

 tains of St. Mary's, and thofe beyond mount Diable, towai At 

 St. Ann's, but feldom feen in any other part of the ifland. 

 Browne. Sloane jullly remarks, that any arguments in fa- 

 vour of the coldnefs of the air in parts of Jamaica, or Hif- 

 paniola, where this bramble occurs, prove nothing, becaufe 

 it is a different fpecies from our European one. Pofiibly 

 however they may be more nearly related than ha wis aware. 

 The pubefcence of the back of the leavi -, though very 

 fine, foft, and white, is often approach din particu- 

 lars by that of our fruticofus, even on the fame Hem, with 

 leaves that are almoll green underneath. The infertion of 

 the (talks of the fourtli and filth /... 1 prefent, 

 upon thofe of the next pair, making a pedate leaf, is charac- 

 teriltic of the Jamaica Bramble, but even this is occafionally 

 to be detected in our's. The flower and fruit are laid to be 

 fmaller than in fruticofus. In the Linnxan fpecimen the 



flowers are double, quite as large as thofe of the latter. 

 The ribs of the leaflets are prickly in both ; nor are the fer- 

 ratures at all more deep in one than the other. 



24. R. rofeus. Red-flowered Peruvian Bramble. Poirct 

 in Lamarck Didl. v. 6. 245. — Leaves ternate, or fimple, 

 fmooth. Stipulas oval, obtufe. Flowers axillary, nearly 

 folitary. Calyx fmooth, (lightly fringed. Stem, flower- 

 ftalks, footllalks, and ribs of the leaves very prickly. — 

 Gathered by Dombey in Peru. The Branches, according to 

 Poiret, are woody, ftriated, fmooth, zigzag, prickly. 

 Leaves very large, mollly ternate, oval or lanceolate, un- 

 equal, fmooth on both fides ; a little paler beneath. The 

 terminal leaflet is four or five inches long, and three bioad. 

 Stipulas large, almolt half embracing tiie flem. Flower- 



1 . plentifully furnilhed with ilrong, reddifh, re- 

 d prickles. Calyx large, with bluntly-pointed feg- 

 ments, a little fringed at the margin. Petals role-coloured, 

 roundifh, fhorter than the calyx, furnifhed with claws. 

 We have feen no fpecimen, but the above description leaves 

 no doubt of this being a • I diftinft fpec ■ 



25. R. urticetf alius. Nettle-leaved Peruvian Bramble. 

 1'' ire't in Lamarck Dift. v. 6. 246. — Leaves ternate, or 

 fimple, ovate, fharply i rrated ; filk) beneath. Stem, 

 ilower-llalks, footllalks, and ribs or the leaves denfely 

 hifpid and fomewhat prickly. Panicles compound, n: 

 flowered. Calyx filky.- Gath < I al Lima by Dombey, 

 from whom we have . .. This i laid to be of very 

 lofty growth. Th« . narkable, like 

 all the Jlalks, tor a denfe rulty coal larfc 

 ])lu(h, among which I Ei .. (hort h ; | ii kli arc iu- 

 terfperl 1!. The leaflets u large, denfely, fharply, and 



lly ferrated; in 1 irm ovate, or fomewhat 

 elliptical; their upper (ide grei i, 1 inutely downy; the 

 under very denfely covered with fhming filky pubefcence, 

 which is faiil by Dombey to be of a filverj whitenefs when 

 I. Ih, though rather tawny in our fpecimen. Stipulas almoll 

 fetaceous. Panicle large, denfe, many-flowered. Brai 

 ovate, filky externally, as well as the' calyx. Petals minute, 



white. 



