626 ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 
11. cae'sius. (Leaves ternate, hairy beneath ; lateral ones two-lobed : 
stem prickly, prostrate, glaucous : calyx embracing the fruit. E.) 
E. Bot. 826 — FI. Dan. 1213— Dod. 742. 2. 
Stem three feet long, purplish, branched, with pendent shoots at the top. 
Prickles very fine, scattered, small, bowed back, interspersed between 
the rough points. Leaves green, not cottony, though often downy under¬ 
neath, serrated; the middle leafit egg-shaped, the lateral ones with ge¬ 
nerally two lobes. Linn. Fruit-stalks round, downy, long, with from 
one to three flowers, sometimes prickly. Fruit composed of fewer and 
larger granulations, from one to five. Woodw. Blossoms white. Fruit 
bluish black, ascescent. (Stem prostrate, rod-like, glaucous, radicating. 
FI. Brit. E.) 
Dewberry. (Welsh : Mwyarllwyn glas. E.) Woods and hedges, and 
balks of corn-fields. Mr. Woodward. S. June—July.* * 
(Var. 2. Flore pleno. Double-flowered. In fields near the vicarage at 
Keswick; also in Borrowdale. Mr. Winch. E.) 
(R. corylifo'lius. Leafits generally five, hairy beneath ; the lateral 
ones sessile ; prickles straightish ; calyx reflexed. E. Bot. 
E. Bot. 827— Schmid. Ic. 2. E.) 
Dillenius in 11. Syn. 467, seems to have been clear that there were two sorts of 
Great Bramble ; but he has not well ascertained their differences. (These 
have been more recently discriminated by Mr. Crowe, in E. Bot., where 
the plant is described as having a “ stem roundish, biennial, not truly 
shrubby or perennial, much more brittle, so that it is rejected by thatchers 
who use the other for binding thatch; all the prickles nearly straight, not 
hooked. Leajits large, always green on both sides, never white beneath, 
sometimes very exactly resembling the leaves of a hazel; the lateral ones 
sessile. Fruit earlier, of a browner black, more gratefully acid than in 
11. fruticosus , and composed of rather fewer grains.” Notwithstanding 
this attempt to establish a species, we cannot but greatly doubt these 
characteristics proving invariable. Mr. Anderson, in Linn. Tr. vol. xi. 
says the only steady scientific mark of distinction is that of the shoots of 
R. fruticosus being constantly placed on the ridge of the angle or furrow 
of the stem ; whereas those of R. corylifolius, besides being more slender, 
more numerous, and of irregular size, are indiscriminately scattered all 
over the shoot, which is generally round, rarely angled, and more spongy 
and brittle than in fruticosus. Smith adds, the glands on the calyx and 
flower-stalks also distinguish this plant. E.) 
(Var. 3. R. suherectus. Anderson. Fruit dark red, not purple. 
Linn. Tr. xi. t. 16 —E. Bot. 2572. 
The habit approaches nearest to that of R. corylifolius , with which it is 
frequently intermixed. It differs in being more upright in its branches ; 
in the leaves having often seven leaflets, (never the case with corylifolius 
or fruticosus,) which are generally more acuminated, and smoother on the 
upper surface, the undermost and uppermost pair sessile; in the aculei 
being more rare and shorter, and in the fruit being dark red, not dark 
when in flower the foot-stalks are sometimes eaten through by the minute Dermcstes to - 
went as us ; and bees frequently anticipate us by sucking the fruit with their probosces. E.) 
* (Gathered by poor people as an agreeable sub-acid fruit. E.) 
