parated from Rubus fruticosus. It is common apparently in
various parts of Europe, and has lately been discovered in
Sweden; but has been observed, as far as we are informed,
in one spot only in the British Islands, in a plantation on
Terrington Car, near Castle-Howard, Yorkshire, where it
grows among rushes, on a moist peaty soil, covering about a
rood of ground, almost to the exclusion of every other Bramble.
It was discovered, in July 1841, by Mr. Richard Spruce,
in whose company our specimens were gathered in September
1843, when but few panicles remained in flower, and of whose
notes, kindly- communicated, we have availed ourselves.
Barren stems usually arising several from the same root
and diverging in all directions, growing to the length of from
7 to 12 feet, occasionally rather more, but scarcely attaining
to half an inch in diameter; they are pithy, round, somewhat
flexuose, arched for about half their length, then prostrate,
rooting at the extremity; they throw out a few horizontal
branches near the base: fertile stem suberect, seldom more
than 18 inches high, branched nearly at right angles. The
stems are glaucous, very red on the exposed, pale green on
the sheltered side, densely beset with gland-tipped setae, intermixed
with numerous horizontal and decurved prickles,
very unequal in size, but none of them large, mostly acicular,
or but slightly enlarged at the base, others more dilated and
flattened, but scarcely longer*, and among them a few soft
hairs. Leaves ternate; the upper ones among the flowers
often simple. Common leaf-stalk shorter than the terminal
leaflet, armed and coloured like the stem, the upper side more
hairy, flattened, but not channeled except at the very base
and above the setting-off of the short ascending proper stalks
of the lateral leafletsf. Stipules long, linear, fringed, issuing
at some distance above the base of the leaf-stalk. Leaflets
large (except in the lower leaves of the branches), firm, unpolished,
of a yellowish green, often much tinged with red,
rather paler beneath; both surfaces sprinkled with shining
* (< Figura a Weiheo data eatenus mendosa, quod aculei majores in caule sterili fere nulli conspiciuntur. ’ ’ FI. Siles. 1. c.—In fact they vary much in abundance, and on some of our specimens are almost wanting.
4 Bellardi describes the lateral leaflets as sessile. We have not seen
them so.
hairs, those on the under side shorter, and confined to the prominent
ribs and veins; outline broadly ovate*, cuspidate, often
very abruptly so; serratures variable f, not deep, blunt, with a
sharp ascending or horizontal point: the middle leaflet has
occasionally a subcordate base; the lateral ones are unequalsided,
the portion below the midrib being at least a third wider
than that above it; one of the lower nerves on this side stronger
and more branched than the rest, and beset beneath with a few
small prickles, such as occur more plentifully on the midrib J :
upper leaves when simple, truly cordate, and furnished with a
similar stronger nerve or rib on each side; the uppermost have
usually a few stalked glands on the upper) surface. Panicle
not large, hairy, beset with abundance of acicular prickles and
gland-tipped setae; its branches alternate, horizontal, fewr-
‘ flowered, shorter than the subtending leaves; terminal flower-
stalk shorter than the next below it: under the upper branches
and branchlets the place of leaves is supplied by more or less
dilated or linear, trifid or simple bracteas, fringed with setae
and hairs. Calyx tomentose, setose and prickly, spreading
or decurved when in flower, closing about the young and
ripening fruit, and again deflexed when this is fully ripe ;
segments subtriangular, with a lengthened simple point.
Petals scarcely longer than the calyx §, obovate or narrowly
spatulate, crumpled, and, like the stamina, greenish white,
Fruit of moderate size, rather loosely grained, shining, black,
with a tinge of red; its taste acidulous, with a slight turpentine
flavour.
So variously has the name glandulosus been applied, that
it might be convenient to follow the example of those who
distinguish this, the plant originally called so, by another
name; but we yield to the paramount claim of priority. De
Candolle, indeed, Wallroth, Gaudin, and Koch (Syn.Fl.Germ.),
regard it as R. fruticosus /3. hybridus of Villars; but the short
* “ Quæ mme in ovato-subrotundam, tur.” FI. Siles. 1. c. nunc in auguste oblongam, muta-
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