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De Candolle's Prodromus, Don's Miller t and Linda's Synopsis ; and, next, a 

 selected list of all those species and varieties, with references to the pages 

 where they have been described and figured in the preceding descriptions. In 

 giving these descriptions, those sorts which we consider to be only of interest 

 to those who are fond of multiplying botanical distinctions will be found in 

 smaller type, and may be passed over by those who do not wish to trouble 

 themselves with minute differences. 



The propagation of the shrubby, or raspberry-like, species of iambus is 

 effected by suckers or seeds ; that of the bramble division of the genus by 

 pegging down the points of the shoots to the soil, when they will root, and 

 throw out other shoots, which may again be pegged down ; so that plants 

 are procured from brambles much in the same way as from strawberries. 



Most of the raspberry kinds, and a few of the ornamental brambles, are 

 procurable, in British nurseries, at Is. 6d. a plant ; at Bollwyller, for from 

 1 franc to 1| francs ; and, at New York, for from 37^ cents to 50 cents. The 

 fruit-bearing raspberries, in the London nurseries, at \d. each. 



§ i. Leaves pinnate, of 3 — 7 Leaflets, 

 an 1. R. subere'ctus Anders. The sub-erect Bramble. 



Identification. Anders, in Linn. Soc. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 556. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 534. ; Smith Eng. 



Flora, 2. p. 406. 

 Synonymes. Lindley, in his Syn. of the Brit. Flora, has given the following : — R. nessensis Hall ; R. 



plicatus W. S( N., not of Suppl. to Eng. Bot., t. 2714., which is a smaller form of R. affinis W. $ N. ; 



R. corylifblius Wahlenb. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot, t.2572.; E. of Gard., 1835, fig. 496. 



Spec. Char., tyc. Stem erect. Leaf of never more than 5 leaflets, digitate, 

 occasionally pinnate, thin, shining, and plaited. Flowers in simple 

 corymbose racemes. Prickles weak. Is found in Britain, in moist woods, 

 and by the sides of rivulets, chiefly in the northern counties. {Lindley, Synoj)s. 

 of the Brit. Flora, ed. 2. p. 92.) This is " the most frequent species, if 

 species it be, in the upland zone." (Watson, in Outl. Geog. Distr., p. 137.) 

 The stems are biennial, and flower the second year, like those of the common 

 raspberry, afterwards dying off. They grow nearly upright, without any 

 support, and are between 3 ft. and 4 ft. high. The fruit consists of rather 

 a small number of dark red, or blood-coloured, aggregate grains, said to be 

 agreeably acid, with some flavour of the raspberry ; whence it has been 

 recommended by some as perhaps not unworthy of cultivation. 



** 2. R. affi n nis Weihe § Nees. The related Bramble. 



Identification. Weihe and Nees's Rubi Germanici, p. 22. t. 3. and 36. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 560. ; Lindl. 

 Synops. Br. Fl., 2d ed. p. 92, 93. 



Synonymes. Lindley mentions the following : — R. collinus Dec. ; R. nitidus Smith in Eng. Flor., 

 Lindley in Syn. Br. Fl, ed. 1. ; R. plicatus Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl, t. 2714. 



Engravings. Weihe and Nees's R. G., t. 3. and 36. ; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2714. 



Spec. Char., 8(C. Stem arched, angled, prickly with strong recurved prickles, glabrous. Leaflets 

 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. Sepals ovate-acuminate, externally naked, reflexed. Carpels large, 

 blue-black. {Dec Prod., 2. p. 560.) A native of Germany, also of barren hills of Montpelier, and 

 of Britain, in boggy places ; and flowers in July and August. (Lindley, Synops. Br. Fl.) 



Variety. 



Jk R. a. 2 bractcbsus Ser., R. «, y, and 5, Weihe and Nees's Rubi Germ , t. 3. b. — Bracteas 

 very broad, undivided. 



-* 3. R. fi'ssus Lindl. The cleft Bramble. 



Identification. Lindl. Synops. Brit. Flora, ed. 2. p. 92. 



Synonyme. R. fastigiatus Lindl. in his Synops. Brit. Flora, ed. 1., not of Weihe & Nees. 



Spec. Char., SfC. Stem arched. Leaves digitate, shining, frequently of 7 leaflets, that are much less 

 membranous than those of R. suber^ctus. Flowers in simple racemes. Prickles strong, numerous. 

 It differs from R. affinis W. Sf N. in its small racemes, and in its floral leaves never being large 

 and orbicular, as they are in R. aff'inis. " The only specimen with which I am acquainted," adds 

 Dr. Lindley, " is one sent to the garden of the Horticultural Society from Ayrshire." (Lindley, 

 Synops. Brit. FL, ed. 2. p. 93.) 



« 4. R. micra'nthus D. Don. The small-flowered Bramble. 



Identification. Don Prod. Fl. Nepal, p. 235. ; Dec. Prod, 2. p. 557. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 530. 

 Synonyme. R. pauciflbrus Lindley in Bot. Reg., Hort. Brit., n. 13500. 



Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 854, as R. pauciflbrus Lindl. ; and our fig. 449. representing a sprig to the 

 usual scale, and figs. 450. and 450 a representing the flowers and fruit of the natural size. 



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