. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 528. Ailbus nfflnis. The stems are biennial, and flower the second year, like those of the com- mon raspberry, afterwards dying off. The fruit consists of a small number of dark red, or blood-coloured, aggregate grains, agreeably acid, with some fla- vour of the raspberry ; whence it has
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 528. Ailbus nfflnis. The stems are biennial, and flower the second year, like those of the com- mon raspberry, afterwards dying off. The fruit consists of a small number of dark red, or blood-coloured, aggregate grains, agreeably acid, with some fla- vour of the raspberry ; whence it has been recommended by some as perhaps not unworthy of cultivation. 2. S. afpi'nis Weihe 4- Nees. The related Bramble. JdmUfkation,. Weihe and Nees's Kubi Germanici, p. 22. t. 3. and 36.; Dec. Fred., 2. p. 660.; Lindl. Synops. Br. Fl., 2d ed. p. 92, 93. SynonyTnes. Lindley mentions tlje following : —R. eolllnus Dec,; R. nitidus Smith -"a Eng. Wlor., Lindley in Syn. Br. Fl. ed. 1.; R. plicatus Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 27H. Engravings, Weihe and Nees's R. G., t. 3. and 36.; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2714.; and our^. 628. Spec, Char,, ^c. Stem arched, angled, prickly with strong re- curved prickles, glabrous. Leaf- lets 3—5 in a leaf, ovate with a heart-shaped base, cuspidate, sharply serrated, flat at the base, a little waved towards the tip, having downy tomentum beneath. Flowers in a compound panicle, the component ones cymose. Se- pals ovate-acuminate, externally naked, reflexed. Carpels large, blue-black. (Dec. Prod.) A low bramble. Germany, also of barren hills of MontpeUer,and of Britain, in boggy places. Flowers white; July and August. Variet)/, -* R. a. 2 bracteosus Ser. R. „. 7 and S, Weihe and Nees's Rubi Germ. t. 3. b. — Bracteas very broad, undivided. m 3. R, MICRA'^fTHus D. lion. The small-flowered Bramble. Jdeniification. Don Prod. Fl. Nepal., d '>36 • Don Prod., 2. p. 657.; Don's Mill., 2. p, 530, ' SymmijTne. R. pauciBdrus Ltndley in Bol. Reg., Hor
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