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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



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Spec. Char., $c. Upright. Stem round, 

 branched, and bearing awl-shaped inflexed 

 prickles, or straight prickles, and the 

 branches recurved ones. Young branch- 

 lets rather glaucous at the extremity. Leaf 

 pinnate, of 5 — 7 leaflets, that are ovate or 

 oblong, mucronate, doubly serrated, plaited, 

 green and glossy above, whitishly tomen- 

 tose, or else glaucous, beneath. Petiole ^ 

 and rachis bearing prickles here and there. 

 Petiole pilose. Stipules lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, membranaceous. Flowers small, 

 reddish purple, disposed in a corymbose 

 panicle. Petals clawed, shorter than the 

 sepals. Fruit black. Closely related to 

 the R. distans of D. Don. {Dec. Prod., ii. ^ 



native of Nepal, introduced in 1822; growing to the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft., 

 and flowering from May to August. It is easily distinguished from all the 





p. 557.) A gigantic bramble, a 



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other brambles in British gardens, by its 

 nearly erect, strong, smooth, dark maho- 

 gany-coloured shoots, and by its very long 

 pinnate leaves. The flowers are small, and 

 the petals are of a bright reddish purple, 

 ^ and shorter than the sepals. The fruit 

 "iWfel^ ^^ is of a blackish purple, of the middle 



|j . size ; depressedly spherical, and covered with a fine 



bloom. The grains are fleshy, with a sweet subacid 

 taste. This species throws up suckers sparingly ; but its magnificent shoots 

 arch over after they get to 6 ft. or 8 ft. in height, and grow branching and 

 flowering on every side, till they reach the ground, when their extreme points 

 strike root, and form new plants. A plant in the Horticultural Society's Gar- 

 den, in 1834, was 10 ft. high, with shoots nearly 20 ft. long. 



« 5. R. di'stans D. Don. The distsmt-leafleted Bramble. 



Identification. Don Prod. Fl. Nepal, p. 256. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 557. ; Don's Mill, 2. p. 530. 



Synonyme. Jt. pinnatus D. Don in Prod. Fl. Nepal, p. 254. 



Spec. Char., S(c. Stems round, bearing stout, compressed, recurved prickles. Leaves pinnate, re- 

 sembling those of the hemp plant. Leaflets lanceolate, acutely serrated, distant, whitely tomen- 

 tose beneath, and having numerous nerves. Stipules linear, at the tip subspathulate. Racemes 

 corymbose. Peduncles short. Sepals tomentose, ovate, somewhat acuminate, as long as the petals. 

 Carpels downy. (Dec. Prod., 2. p. 557.) A native of Nepal, introduced in 1818, growing to the 

 height of 6 ft. or 8 ft, and flowering in June and July. We have never seen the plant. 



sk 6. R. strigo'sus Michx. The strigose Bramble. 



Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 297. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 346. ; Dec. Prod., 2. 

 p. 557. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 531. 



Synonyme. R. pennsylvanicus Poir. Did., 6. p. 246. 



Spec. Char., tyc. Stem round, very hispid. Leaves pinnately cut; those of the barren branches of 

 5 lobes, those of the fertile ones of 3. Lobes oval, unequally serrated, obtuse at the base, beneath 

 lineated, and hoarily tomentose ; the odd one, in most instances, almost heart-shaped. Flowers 



about 3 upon a peduncle. Peduncle and calyx hispid. Petals white, 

 ? longer than the calyx. {Dec. Prod., 2. p. 557, 558.) A native of 

 North America, on mountains from Canada to Virginia ; flowering 

 in June and July. According to Pursh, it is an upright shrub, with 

 fruit very agreeable to eat. There is a plant ;in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, to which the name of 11. pennsylvanicus is at- 

 tached : but, it being in a weak state, we are not certain that it is 

 the same species. 



■it 7. R. occidentals L. The Western, or Ameri- 

 can, Bramble. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 706. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. ; Don's Mill., 2. 



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 Synonyme*. Ii. virginiynus//or<. ; Ii. idaj'us fructu nlgro Dill. 

 Engraving. Sloane Jam., t. 213. t. 1. ; Dill. Hort. Elt., t. 247. f. 319. ; 



and our fig. 451. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. The whole plant is pretty glabrous- 

 Sterns round and whitish. Prickles recurved- 



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