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R U B U S suberectus.
Red-fruited Bramble.
1C0SANDR1A Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry superior,
composed of several single-seeded grains.
S pec. Char. Leaves pinnate, with five or seven ovate
leaflets, hairy beneath ; upper ones ternate. Stems
ascending. Prickles minute, nearly straight.
S yn. Rubus suberectus. Anderson in a paper to the
Linn. Soc.
R. nessensis. Hall in Tr. of R. Soc. of Edinb.
v. 3. 20.
T h is new Rubus, first found near Loch Ness, has since been
observed in other parts of Scotland. Mr. G. Anderson, to whom
we are obliged for clearly ascertaining its specific characters, has
gathered it not only in the highlands of Aberdeen and Perthshire,
but also in Wales, and near Ripley, Yorkshire. Mr. G. Don
noticed it on the hills of Forfarshire. Where this species abounds,
it is often intermixed with corylifolius, t. 827, which it most
nearly resembles in habit, though perhaps more allied in reality
to the Rasp-berry, t. 2442.
The stems are biennial, growing tolerably upright without support,
brittle, reddish, with spreading branches; their prickles
scattered, nearly straight, and peculiarly small. Leaves pinnate,
with five or seven leaflets; the upper ones with but three; all
roundish ovate, sharply serrated, light green on both sides;
smooth and almost even above ; hairy beneath. Panicle racemose,
rather lax. Petals white, narrow-obovate. Calyx finally
reflexed. Fruit deep red, not purple, usually of but few perfect
grains, of a very agreeable flavour, resembling, in some degree,
the R. Idceus, and being later than that fruit, Mr. Anderson
suggests that the R. suberectus might prove not unworthy of
cultivation.