Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 237 



paniculae tomentosse ramis ascendentibus. Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 

 366. 

 R. macroacanthos, Ruh. Germ. 44. t. 18. 



h. argenteus (Bell Salt. !) ; caule patente-piloso, aculeis rectis, fo- 

 liolis planis subtus molliusculis, paniculae tomentosse ramis ascen- 

 dentibus. Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 367. 



" R. argenteus, Rub. Germ. t. 19." 



Common. July and August. 



Obs. 1. I have placed both the plants of the 'Rubi Germ.^ under 

 the type of this species, but neither of those plates exactly repre- 

 sents either of our plants. The narrow leaves of the R.fru- 

 ticosus of that work agree well with the more common English 

 plant, but then they are combined with a deeply furrowed gla- 

 brous barren shoot. In our plant this form of leaf is most usually 

 found upon silky angular but scarcely furrowed shoots. Also the 

 much rounder leaves of the R. discolor (Rubi Germ.) is an at- 

 tendant upon a furrowed barren shoot and a thyrsoid panicle in 

 this country. 



Obs. 2. The panicle in var. a. and jS. has a different appear* 

 ance from that of var. y. and B. owing to its lower branches, 

 although short, spreading at nearly a right angle from the rachis ; 

 in the later varieties they are usually rather longer, but ascend 

 from a very acute angle with the rachis. 



Obs. 3. Dr. Bell Salter has given to me a form of this plant 

 under the manuscript name of var. Icevis, differing from the ty- 

 pical state in having its flowering shoot nearly without prickles. 

 It seems hardly deserving of a distinctive name ; it is probably 

 the var. inermis of Godron. The R. abruptus (Lindl.) can only 

 be considered as a state of the species, not a true variety. Such 

 forms are found in many if not all the species. 



Obs. 4. A frustratus form of this species occasionally may be 

 observed. It is almost exactly suberect, showing no tendency to 

 prolong its growing shoots so as to reach the ground, or indeed 

 to do more than very slightly curve at the summit. In all other 

 respects it resembles the typical plant. 



\.\. R. leucostachys (Sm. !) ; caule arcuate anguloso piloso-villoso, 

 aculeis sequalibus rectiusculis horizoutsilihus, foliis quinatis cori- 

 aceis planis subtus mollibus fulvo-albove-hirtis micantibus, foliolo 

 terminaU ovato rotundatove abrupte apiculato, panicula elongata 

 angusta foliosa villosa vel tomentosa. 



R. leucostachys, Eng. Bot. SuppL 2631. 



R. pubescens. Rub. Germ. 42. t. 16. 



Stem long, not furrowed, often nearly round j pubescence loose, 

 weak. Prickles numerous, hairy. Leaflets, particularly those of 

 the flowering shoot, often wavy at the margins. Flowering shoot 



