or not at all arched; the under side usually shaggy with
copious, shining, mostly yellowish hairs, and sometimes
pale green, sometimes hoary, sometimes white. Minute
sessile glands are sprinkled among the pubescence both
of the stem and of the panicle-branches. In the latter
situation they vary in abundance, and sometimes a few
setae, “ seldom projecting so far as the copious hairs,”
are found. The calyx-segments are broad with a short
acute point, white with down, like the panicle, and
sprinkled with sessile or short-stalked, often very inconspicuous,
glands, and less generally with a few small
prickles. The petals and stamina are often of a fuller pink
than is usual in our other species, R. fruticosus excepted.
The berry is purplish black, without bloom, of rather
looser and less depressed grains than that of R. fruticosus,
and of a sweet taste when quite ripe.
There is a Bramble of strong growth, referable,we think,
to this species, in which the stem is less shaggy, but grey
with appressed starry hairs ; the prickles are very strong,
long, and straight; the leaflets flatter, rounder, more heart-
shaped, very white and less hairy beneath; the flowers
somewhat smaller, often white. Mr, Forster finds this
variety in Epping Forest, and it is not more rare than the
other in Sussex, especially in the forests. We believe it
to be the R . diversifolius of Lindley, Syn. Brit. p. 93.
We can refer neither of these forms to any of the Rubi
described by Weihe and Nees von Esenbeck. We had suspected
that their R . vestitus might be the same species, but
an authentic specimen, for which we are indebted to Mr.
Lindley, proves it different. W. B.