Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 171 



places in Sussex, Mr. Borrer, /S. Burnt House, Isle of Wight, 

 Dr. Bell Salter. July and August. 



Obs. 1. Near the extremity of the barren shoots the prickles 

 are more hooked, but as that part is usually dead and lost at the 

 flowering season the prickles are then all nearly straight. 



Obs. 2. The fi. carinatus does not agree well with this spe- 

 cies and may prove distinct. All its leaves, especially those of 

 the flowering shoot, differ remarkably from those of the true R. 

 plicatus, to which I refer many plants which would be named 

 R. suberectus by numerous English botanists ; the leaves of the 

 flowering shoots combining with general habit to point out their 

 true location. 



Obs. 3. The R. nitidus from " Snelsmore Common near New- 

 bury," gathered by Mr. Bicheno and preserved in Smith's herb., 

 appears almost certainly to be R. plicatus ; as are also the R. sub- 

 erectus from Frant and from Ashdown Forest. R. nessensis, a 

 cultivated specimen from Mr. J. Mackay, and one named R. sub- 

 erectus by Smith from " Scotland, Mr. G. Don," are R. plicatus. 



A German specimen named R. plicatus by Mr. Sonder of Ham- 

 burg is the same as our plant, to which also specimens named 

 R. suberectus and R. fastigiatus by Dr. Weihe belong. 



4. R. fastigiatus (W. et N. ?) ; caule decurvo vel procumbente angu- 

 loso glabro, aculeis paucis rectis declinatis aequalibus in caulis 

 angulis congestis, foliis quinato-digitatis plants, foliolo terminali 

 cordate acuminato infimis subsessilibus intermediis incumbentibus, 

 ramorum floriferorum lateralibus basi dilatatis, paniculae subsim- 

 plicis foliosae apice corymboso, sepalis a fructu reflexis. 



R. fastigiatus. Rub. Germ. 16. t. 2.? 



Stems very long, but (I believe) not rooting. Prickles dilated 

 at the base, distant. Leaves green on both sides, pilose above, 

 paler and downy beneath, flexible, large, unequally dentate-ser- 

 rate. Petioles and midrib with strong hooked prickles. Panicle 

 with few small straight declining prickles : floral leaves few 

 simple cordate-ovate. Peduncles simple, elongate, ascending, 

 downy with spreading hairs ; lower ones distant axillary, upper 

 corymbose; terminal peduncle much shorter than the others. 

 Leaves of the flowering shoots ternate. 



In dense woods at Jardine Hall in Dumfries-shire. August 

 and September. 



Obs. This plant so closely agrees with the figure and descrip- 

 tion of R. fastigiatus as given in the ' Rubi Germ.,' that it is 

 considered better to retain that name for it. It difi'ers chiefly 

 by having its lower leaflets nearly sessile and overlapping the 

 intermediate pair, and the almost exactly dentate margin of its 

 leaves. 



