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R U B U S Kohleri.
Kohler’s Bramble.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry superior
of several single-seeded juicy grains, placed upon
a protuberant spongy receptacle.
Spec. Char. Stem decumbent, somewhat angular
and furrowed, with scattered hairs, glands, and
numerous hooked and straight unequal prickles.
Leaves digitate, of 5 stalked, ovate or elliptical,
somewhat cordate, pointed leaves. Panicle much
divided, somewhat corymbose. Calyx loosely
reflexed.
Syn. Ruhus Kohleri. Weihe $ Nees Rubi Germ.
71. t. 25. Lindl. Syn. Brit. 94.
R. glandulosus. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 2. 403. excl. the
syn. of Bellardi, and probably of DeCandolle.
(3 R. fusco-ater. Weihe & Nees Rubi Germ. 72.
£. 26. Lindl. Syn. Brit. 94.
y R. pallidus. Weihe 8$ Nees Rubi Germ. 75. t. 26.
Lindl. Syn. Brit. 94.
R. affinis. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 2. 405. excl. the syn.
I n woods, thickets and hedges, in various parts of England,
flowering in July and August, and soon ripening its
fruit.
Stems often many feet in length, but varying much from
soil and situation, decumbent unless supported, more or
less distinctly angular, and in general but slightly furrowed;
green in shady situations, never glaucous, red where exposed
; covered, in varying proportions of each, (as are also
the stalks and mid-ribs of the leaves,) with spreading simple
hairs, glands, setae, and prickles, of which some are straight