CHAP. XL1I, 



ROSA^CETE. UV y BV6. 



739 



Spec. Char.ySfc. Stem rather round, bearing stout 

 recurved prickles, compressed at the base. Leaf- 

 lets 3 — 5, pinnately cut, sharply serrate, a little 

 downy beneath. Flowers in loose panicles, 

 white or rose-coloured. Sepals lanceolate, leafy 

 at the tip tomentose, prickled, reflexed. Petals 1 

 wedge-shaped, 3-lobed at the tip. Carpels, 

 roundish, dark coloured. {Dec. P/W.,ii. p.558.) 

 The appearance of this plant is that of the 

 common bramble, except in the leaflets, which, 

 from their being deeply cut, are strikingly dif- 

 ferent. Where it was first found is unknown ; 

 but it is, in all probability, only a variety of the 

 common bramble, analogous to the cut-leaved 

 variety of the elder (*Sambucus nigra laciniata). 

 Plants maybe obtained at the principal nurseries. 



-* 11. R. c;e x sius L. The grey Bramble, 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 706. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 533. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t. 22. ; Hayne Abbilcl, t. 100. ; Eng. Bot.,t. 826. 



Spec. Char., $?c. Stem trailing, round, in 

 many instances suffused with a grey 

 bloom, bearing slender and a little re- 



or Dewberry. 



and our Jig. 454. 



fek. 



curved prickles. Leaflets 3 in a leaf, ovate, ^^^^^J^ -A % 

 doubly serrated or crenated, glabrous, or <^^-$ ^^V^J^S-\\ 

 obscurely ciliated. Panicle almost simple. ^~~~ 

 Sepals ovate-acuminate. Petals white. v$fy, w 

 Fruit sweet. Carpels large, few, greyish 

 (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 558.) jw 



Varieties. m~ 



-* R. c. 2 arvensis Wallr. Sched., p. 288. : « 

 R. pseudo-cae v sius Wcihe, accord , 

 ing to Ern. Meyer in Litt. — Leaf- jM 

 lets tomentose beneath. Branches /||& 

 puberulous. \ pi '% 



Jk R. c. 3 grandiflorus Ser. — Pubescent. ^K 

 Petals and sepals long. ^R 



«% R. cAparvifolius Wallr. Sched., p. 228.; jR 

 and ouvjig. 455. — Stem ascending, 

 purplish, ultimately naked. Leaves small, incisely lobed. Peduncle 

 1 — 3-flowered. A native of herbage-covered hills. 

 ~± R. c. 5foliis variegatis Hort. has variegated leaves. 

 Descrij)tion, Sj-c. A low, weakly, straggling, prostrate plant, having the 

 flowers with blush-coloured petals, and the fruit small, with few grains ; but 

 .^m these large, juicy, black, with a fine glaucous 

 bloom, and very agreeably acid. It is a na- 

 tive of Europe, and the north-east of Asia, 

 in woods and hedges. By some it has been 

 proposed to be cultivated on account of its 

 % fruit. (See Encyc. of Gard., ed. 1835, p. 

 946.) This species, or race, varies exceed- 

 ingly in different situations ; whence have 

 arisen the following varieties (12 — 16.), of 

 more marked character than those already 

 given, and which are considered by some as 

 species ; in which form they are as follows : — 



-* 12. R> hi'rtus W. Sf K. The hairy Bramble. 



Identification. Wal 1st. and Kit. Plant. Rar. Hung., 2. p. 150. t. 141. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 533. 

 Synonymies. R. villosus Ait., var. glandulosus Ser. in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 563. ; R. glandulosus Bell. Ami 



Ft. Pedem, p. 24. ; R. hybridus Fill. Dclpli., 3. p. 359. 

 Engraving. Waldst. and Kit. Plant. Rar. Hung., 2. p. 150. 1. 141. 



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