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R U B U S macrophyllus.
Large-leaved Bramble.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry superior,
of several single-seeded grains, placed upon a
protuberant spongy receptacle.
Spec. Char. Stem arched, somewhat angular and
furnwed, hairy, with thinly scattered small uniform
prickles. Leaves digitate, of 3 or 5 stalked
elliptical or ovate leaflets. Panicle repeatedly divided,
somewhat corymbose. Calyx at length
reflexed.
Syn. Rubus macrophyllus. JVeihe § Nees Rubi
Germ. 35. 1 .12.
A N woods, thickets, and hedges, in Sussex, rather rare. In
general appearance it most resembles that variety, as we
esteem it, of R . Kohleri, which has been named R . pallidus ;
but it is well distinguished by the small uniform prickles,
and the want of glands on the stem, except those minute
inconspicuous ones which are found, perhaps, on almost
every species of Rubus. The small prickles distinguish it
from R . rhamnifolius also, from which it further differs by
the copious fine hairs of the barren stem, the longer and
more flexible leaves, and indeed the whole aspect of the
plant.
Stem about half an inch in diameter, upright at first,
afterwards decurved and growing to the length of 10 or 15
feet, simple or but little branched the first season, rather
soft and spongy, obtusely angular, more or less deeply, often
slightly, furrowed, dull green, not glaucous, tinged where
exposed to the sun with dull purple; the hairs which cover
it soft and pale, spreading in the lower, accumbent in the