- $18 Mr. AnpERson’s Description of a new British Rubus. 
but has not been observed till now by any botanist in this, or, as 
far as I can discover, in any other country, with the exception 
- of the quotation below. Though materially different from each 
other, they are all three nevertheless more nearly connected to- 
gether than any of them are to the Rubus casius on the one side, 
or ideus on the other, the two species between which they stand. 
I have patiently examined them in their different stages, to fix 
permanent and scientific marks of distinction to characterize 
them ; and in this attempt have endeavoured to improve the 
descriptions of the two species already defined by Dr. Smith, 
having his judicious remarks to guide me; and such further aid 
. as a constant view of the plants for several years has afforded me. ` 
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y 1. Rubus suberectus. | 
Spec. Canar. Rubus foliis subquinatis septennato-pinnatisque : 
foliolis ovatis subtus pilosis, caulibus erectiusculis: aculeis 
exiguis rectiusculis. 
Tas. XVI. 
Rubus Nessensis. W. Hall in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. iii. p. 20, 21. 
DESCR. Caules biennes erectiusculi, (sine sustentaculo) adscendentes teretes vel angulati, 
fragiles, rubicundi, ramis divaricatis ; sparsim aculeati, interdum fere inermes ; 
aculei breves rectiusculi. Folia quinata vel septennato-pinnata, subinde ternata ; 
foliolis ovatis apice acutis, lete viridibus, inzqualiter serratis ; supra glabris, 
leviusculis, subtus pilosis, Panicula laxiuscula, Corolla alba. Fructus atro- 
rubens gratissimus acinis paucis, ! 
Found by me first in autumn 1808, in the wood behind the 
Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire ; afterwards in other parts of Wales. 
I was not then aware of its being the same plant that was brought 
by Mr. Hall from the banks of Loch Ness, and so accurately de- 
scribed by him in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edin- 
burgh, which I had seen in Scotland twenty years ago; and which 
without examination I was taught to believe was a mere variety 
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