Mr. C. C. Babinffton on tlie British Rubi. 17 



II. — A Supplement to " A Sijnopsis of tlie British Rubi J' No. I. 

 By Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. &c.t 



The publication of my Synopsis of the British Rubi has already 

 resulted in the discovery of several additional British forms of 

 this difficult but beautiful genus. These I purpose publishing 

 at intervals as time vi^ill allow me to determine them with accu- 

 racy. 



25. R. glandulosus. Bell. 



Z. dentatus; caule subanguloso pilose setoso, aculeis parvis paucis, 

 foliolo terminali ovato cuspidate basi cordate insequaliter apicu- 

 \dlo-dentato, paniculse hirtse aculeis paucis tenuibiis rectis decli- 

 natis setis brevibus multis apice et ramis paucis brevibus distan- 

 tibus divaricatis paucifleris corymbesis. 



Whole plant of an ashy green colour. Barren stem rather 

 angular with small not very numerous yellow prickles ; hairs and 

 setae abundant, nearly equal, short. Leaves very like those of 

 R. Bellardi but dijfferenfc in colour, thinner, much less hairy 

 (with scattered hairs on both sides), the terminal leaflet cordate 

 at the base J ; petioles armed like the stem, except that the 

 prickles are deflexed (this is also the case in the R. Bellardi 

 from Terrington Car — in the ^ Eubi Germ.^ they are represented 

 straight). On the flowering shoot the hairs are more numerous 

 relatively to the setae than on the barren stem ; both are very 

 short ; prickles few, scattered, short, very slender. Leaves all 

 ternate, the uppermost 1 — 8 excepted, which are usually simple. 

 Branches few-flowered, subcoi^mbose; panicle corymbose at the 

 end ; sepals lanceolate with an attenuated point, setose, acicular, 

 reflexed from the fruit. 



Abundant near Twycross, Leicestershire, Rev. A. Bloxam, 

 from whom my specimens were received. 



Obs. Very closely resembling the typical R. glandulosus {R. 

 Bellardi), but diiFering remarkably in its colour, the dentition of 

 its thin leaves and its fewer prickles and aciculi, and more nu- 

 merous hairs on the barren stem. N.B. A specimen of this 

 bramble will be found in Bloxam's ' Fasciculus of Rubi.' 



25*. R. Gunieri (Weihe) ; caule subanguloso sparsim pilose et se- 

 tose, aculeis insequalibus nonnullis validis sed brevibus rectis decli- 

 natis multis, /o/i<5 ternaiis vel quinatis insequaliter dentate -serratis 

 concoloribus supra glabris subtus ad venas pilosis pallide viridibus, 

 foliolo terminali late obovato cuspidate, paniculce thyrsoidecd hirtse 



f Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Dec. lOth, 1840. 

 X The leaves are almost invariably ternate, but rarely a quinate leaf 

 occurs. 



Ann. 5f Mag. N. Hist. Vol. xix. 2 



