The lower leaves have their leaflets frequently combined.
Flowering stem rough with acicular prickles, the flowers in
alternate axillary branches to its termination. Peduncles
downy, almost unarmed, the flower-stalks more or less armed
with slender prickles, and subtended by ternate or cordate
floral leaves, which are very pale green or whitish beneath.
Calyces downy, slightly armed. Sepals 5-10, with a reflexed
point. Petals numerous, narrow, white. Styles few, the
carpels generally abortive, and no fruit produced.
This Rubus extends itself much by runners, and throws up
numerous barren shoots in a garden; but scarcely ever, either
in a wild or cultivated state, does it produce any fruit. Once
only has a single ripe drupe fallen under our notice, which
was bright scarlet and very small.
First found by Edwin Lees, F.L.S., in a wood near Ilford
Bridges, about three miles from Lynmouth, Devon, in 1843.
It was afterwards detected by the Rev. W. H. Coleman at
the base of a rocky hill at Bonniton, near Dunster, Somerset,
where it grows in considerable abundance. We have also
found it by the side of a stream that flows into Lake Winder-
mere, between Troutbeck and Bowness, Westmoreland.
Though allied to Rubus Id<mss to which it was originally
referred as a variety, we have never observed the slightest
disposition in the foliage to assume the pinnate division; and
hence the ternate strawberry-like leaves of the barren stem,
and the cordate bracts conspicuous among the flowers, give this
really beautiful plant a remarkable aspect. Though generally
growing as a dwarf, the Westmoreland plant was as tall as
any cultivated raspberry.—E . L e e s .