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ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 
(R. glandulo'sus. Stems angular: brandies and foot-stalks hairy, 
with glandular bristles interspersed: prickles deflexed, partly 
hooked: leafits five to three, downy beneath: panicle and ca¬ 
lyx very prickly and hairy, with copious glandular bristles. 
Stems nearly as stout at the base as those of R. fruticosus , but not so tall. 
Calyx hairy, copiously glandular, and more or less armed with straight 
prickles. The last character, and the prominent glandular bristles of the 
branches, panicle, and calyx, mark this species well. Petals white, 
narrow. Fruit black, of numerous, rather small, grains. Calyx re¬ 
flexed. 
Glandular Bramble. R. glandulosus. Bellardi. Be Cand. In woods 
thickets, and hedges, not uncommon. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(Also nearly allied to R. fruticosus , though as yet but imperfectly under¬ 
stood, are several plants, which some foreign authors have attempted to 
discriminate as species, but which can here be only noticed cursorily to 
attract further attention : viz. 
R. plica'tus. Prickles smaller than in R. fruticosus; leafits larger, their 
under surface hoary and finely downy, but not white or cottony : 
panicle shorter and more corymbose, hairy, not white and downy, 
nor does it bear scarcely any glandular bristles, according to Smith. 
E.). 
( R. rhamnifo'lius. Prickles more slender, narrower at the base, and less 
hooked than in R. fruticosus or plicatus: leafits downy and hairy, 
with shining white hairs interspersed, beneath, but not pure white 
and cottony as in R. fruticosus: calyx spreading, not closely reflexed 
even when in fruit: segments without bristles or prickles. Sm. E.) 
R. leucosta'chys. In size and mode of growth resembling R. fruticosus 
and rliamnifolius ; but, according to Mr. Borrer, is distinguishable 
by its abundant shaggy and shining pubescence, and narrow cluster 
or panicle. Leaves more jagged, and even the old stems are rarely 
without hairs. Smith adduces, as a further peculiarity, little glands, 
scattered over the branches and stalks of the panicle and outside o* 
the calyx. E.) 
{R. nit'idus. A slender plant, with no hoariness, except about the edges 
and inside of the calyx. Leaves minutely hairy, but not hoary, with 
tion. In Jcurn. Nat. we find represented, (PI. iv. f. 3,) what may be frequently observed 
to disfigure the leaves of this plant, viz., a strongly defined line, meandering over the 
surface, with a fine intestinal-like line running through the centre. This sinuous course 
proves to he the pathway of a small caterpillar, (of the tribe Mineuses of Reaumur,) which 
lives upon the parenchyma, orpulpy substance found between the cuticles of the leaves, gra¬ 
dually increasing in size until matured for transformation to the chrysalis, when the 
insect cuts its way through the leaf, ultimately becoming a moth, remarkable for the 
brilliant metallic lustre of its wings, the fine central line being the rejectmentsof the crea¬ 
ture in the infant stages of its growth. The author of the above cited work further re¬ 
marks, “ This sadly reprobated plant will flourish greatly, where other and better fences 
languish, and then, by intertwining its long flexible runners with the weakly products of the 
hedge-row, will compose a guard, where, without it, we could with difficulty have raised 
one. Its long tendrils are much used as binding for thatching, being pegged down to pre¬ 
vent the straw coverings of ricks, and such things, being carried away by the winds. 
Badgers are said to feed much upon the fruit of the Bramble, though probably more so on 
acorns and crabs.”—The leaves of the Bramble are often spotted yellow or brown by Puc- 
cinia Rosce. Heda Rubi will also be found upon them. A double flowering variety is 
considered ornamental in plantations. E ) 
