Eubus.'] 
XXVII. ROSACE.E : ROSE/E. 
125 
[Rubus. Sect. B. p. 123. 
As already mentioned, we intend to give here the British species 
proposed by Mr. Babington. In the Flora merely of a country or 
province, the object is to enable the student unacquainted with any of 
the species to make them out with facility, and therefore the charac- 
ters of the subdivisions of a genus and the arrangement of the species 
ought necessarily to be frequently artificial. Between some of Mr. 
Babington’s sections, as defined by him, — as between the Nitidi and 
Villicaules, and between A. and C. (our a. and c. ) of the Glandulosi, 
— we do see the practical distinction; the stem of the Villicaules 
being described as much without hair or stellate down as those of the 
Nitidi. We have, therefore, in some cases, made slight alterations; 
we do not say improvements, for our characters are still deficient in 
that precision which can only be supplied bv a purely artificial key. 
We have abridged the characters of the species, and placed them as 
much in contrast as possible ; so that the species themselves may be 
considered either as distinct ones, or only as varieties of our own, accord- 
ing to the pleasure of the reader. After the current number we have, 
therefore, referred to that number of our species under which we con- 
sider it ought to rank. The barren stem and its prickles, leaves, &c., 
are alone referred to, unless specially mentioned. 
* Sulierecti. Stem shrubby, biennial, erect, not rooting, 
a. Calyx of fruit reflexed, prickles confined to the angles of the stem. 
1. (2.) R. suberectus And. ; leaflets thin flexible, those of the flowering 
shoots all narrowed below, panicle thyrsoid. E. B. S. t. 2572. 
R. umbrosus Lees. 
2. (2.) R. plicatus W. et N. ; leaflets coriaceous, lateral ones of the flow- 
ering shoots dilated below, panicle pyramidal. E. B. S. t. 27 14. 
b. Calyx of fruit erecto-patent, prickles not confined to the angles of the stem. 
3. (2.) R .flssus Lindl. ; leaflets coriaceous, panicle corymbose. 
** Stem arched or prostrate, shrubby, rooting at the end. 
L Nitidi Stem slightly pilose, without s tellate down or set*. Prickles 
chiefly on the angles of the stem, nearly equal. 
a. Leaflets paler below and more or less pilose beneath. 
f Leaflets stalked, not imbricate, plicate, green and shining above. 
4. (3.) R. nitidus Bell Salt.; stem shining smooth, terminal leaflets ovate 
or roundish acuminate, panicle compound shining hairy with 
spreading short branches. R. Lindleianus Nees. 
tt Basal or all the leaflets sessile or shortly stalked, imbricate ; stem furrowed. 
5. (3.) R. latifolius Bab. ; terminal leaflet cordato-acuminate, panicle 
short with “ ascending few-flowered corymbose branches, its top 
and pedicels tomentose and hairy.” 
6. (3.) R. imbricatus Hort. ; leaflets opaque above, terminal one roundish- 
cordate, panicle narrow with long racemose branches very hairy 
but not tomentose at the top. 
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