Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 241 



feme foliosse densissime hirsutae setosae ramis brevibus paucifloris 



divaricatis. 

 R. villicaulis ^. tenuis, Bab. Man. 95. 

 R. dentatus, Bah, in Uteris ad amicos. 



Stem long, arched, slightly angular, hairy; prickles rather 

 numerous and unequal, not confmed to the angles of the stem, 

 straight, yellow tinged with purple, subulate from a dilated hairy 

 base ; setae and aciculi wanting ; hairs numerous, scattered, 

 slender, spreading, white. Leaves quinate-pedate or ternate by 

 the junction of the lateral pairs, thin ; terminal leaflet nearly 

 round, acute, slightly emarginate at the base, doubly and coarsely 

 dentate-crenate-apiculate, except towards the base, which is di- 

 stantly serrate ; intermediate leaflets obovate-acute ; lowermost 

 when distinct shortly stalked, oval, acute ; all thin, dark green 

 and pilose above, light green with much more conspicuous hairs, 

 especially on the ribs, beneath ; petioles and pedicels very hairy 

 and with scattered straight slender strongly declining yellow 

 prickles with a purple base; stipules linear-lanceolate hairy. 

 Flowering shoot and panicle very hairy ; prickles slender, straight, 

 declining, yellow tinged with purple at the base. Leaves ternate ; 

 leaflets large, oval, acute, finely and nearly regularly dentate- 

 apiculate. Panicle and its branches with numerous setse which 

 are shorter than the hairs and hidden by them; about three 

 lower branches from the axils of the leaves, the rest, about eight, 

 subtended by trifid slender very hairy bracts, all spreading nearly 

 at right angles to the rachis and bearing a corymb of three or 

 four flowers, the uppermost are 1 -flowered; the lower ones about 

 two inches long, the others shortening upwards. Sepals acumi- 

 nate, densely woolly on both sides, with long hairs and a few 

 short setse interspersed. 



Gathered at Haughmont, Salop, in September 1837, in com- 

 pany with my friend the Rev. W. A. Leighton, author of the 

 justly valued ^ Flora of Shropshire.' I have named the plant in 

 his honour, being obliged to place the R. Leightoni (Lees) as a 

 variety of R. rudis, and wishing to retain his name attached to a 

 species in a genus to the elucidation of which he has so success- 

 fully devoted his talents. I also found it at Alborne, Sussex, in 

 1845. 



Obs. The peculiar toothing of the leaves is a characteristic 

 point of great value, very few species being so distinguished. R, 

 Babingtonii in the glandulose group is a similar and almost soli- 

 tary case. 



16. R. carpinifolius (W. et N.); caule ascendents suhanguloso hirto, 

 aculeis validis deflexis declinatisve, foliis quinatis coriaceis acute 

 serratis subtus viridis, foliolo terminaU ovato angusto acuminato, 



