and subulate, others deflexed and often curved, and in
different degrees dilated at the base. Leaves frequently
somewhat pedate, from the partial union of the lateral
stalks. Leaflets usually thin and flexible, flat, varying in
shape, sometimes almost lanceolate, cordate at the base,
especially the broader middle one, irregularly serrated,
sometimes deeply jagged, often terminated by a long taper
point; upper side deeply sulcate in general above the
nerves, as if partly folded, more or less hairy, not shining,
mostly pale green; underside more hairy, and paler, occasionally
grey or even hoary. Leaves of the flowering
shoots mostly ternate. Panicle large, twice or thrice compound
; its branches divaricated, variously hairy, glandular,
and prickly, as is likewise the calyx, which is bent back
more or less whilst in flower; often more spreading when
in fruit; its inside usually stained with red; its points either
short and acute, or elongated and leafy. Petals generally
small, white or pale pink, crumpled, often irregularly jagged,
varying from strap-shaped with a slender claw, to obovate
or almost round. Berry black, shining, acid; grains numerous,
rather small, often unequal.
Sir J. E. Smith, misled by an imperfect specimen, (in this
genus peculiarly deceptive,) published the plant before us
as the R . glandulosus of Bellardi, a species which appears
from the original description, confirmed in Rubi Germanici,
to have its leaves all ternate. The authors of that work
have distinguished as species several varieties, as we think
them, of the R . JKohleri. Two of these we quote above,
referring to our y, with Mr. Forster’s concurrence, the
JR. ajfinis of Smith. R . rudis of Weihe and Nees, and the
plant which, after Waldstein and Kitaibel, they call R. hir-
tus, we have not seen of British growth.
The trivial name which we adopt is given to the first of
the quinate-leaved uRubi glandulosi ” in the German work;
the authors wishing to commemorate by it the attention
paid by one of their coadjutors, a Silesian clergyman, to the
Brambles of his country.—W.B.