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



with any of our other species. It has quite the habit of R. Idceus ; 

 its leaves are usually septenate by the separation of two leaflets 

 from the base of the middle leaflet, they are thin, flexible and 

 slightly pilose or quite glabrous ; the petioles and rachis bear a 

 few short hooked prickles. The inflorescence is small, of a few 

 solitary axillary flowers, and a small open terminal raceme. The 

 floral leaves have all their leaflets narrowed to the base, not 

 cordate. 



Obs. 2. R.fissus (Lindl.) seems scarcely to difi'er from this 

 species, except by having more numerous and scattered prickles, 

 the calyx of the fruit erecto-patent, and the fruit " bright red." 

 In Lindley's description of his R. fastigiatus (Syn. ed. 1. p. 91), 

 which he declares to be R. fissus (Syn. ed. 2. p. 92), he describes 

 the calyx as reflexed. It would thus seem either that he lays but 

 little stress upon that character, or that, if it is of value, his R. 

 fissus is not that of Leighton (Fl. Shrop. 225). The presence 

 of " bright red " fruit in Bell Salter's R. suberectus ff. trifoliatus 

 shows that that cannot be depended upon as a certain distinction 

 between R. suberectus and R. fissus. 



Obs. 3. A garden specimen of R. suberectus in Smith's her- 

 barium, which was given to him by Mr. Edw. Forster, is accom- 

 panied by the observation, " The plant was given to me by Geo. 

 Anderson, and is therefore authentic. E. F." It is exactly our 

 plant. 



3. -K. plicatus (W. et N.) ; caule suberecto anguloso, aculeis sequa- 

 libus parum deflexis in caulis angulis congestis, foliis quinatis 

 plicatis, foliolo terminali cordato-ovato acuminate infimis subses- 

 silibus, ramorwm ^or//(?rorMm lateralibus rhombeo-ovatis hasi dilata- 

 tis, panicula subsimplici racemosa, sepalis a fructu (atro) reflexis. 



R. plicatus. Rub. Germ. 15. t. 1 ; Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2714. 



R. fruticosus, Arrh. Rub. Suec. 23. 



Stems 3 — 4 feet high, glabrous. Prickles slender, dilated at 

 the base. Leaves rarely 7-nate, green on both sides, paler be- 

 neath, pilose, unequally and acutely serrate ; on the flowering 

 shoot generally ternate, basal leaflets dilated below especially on 

 one side where they are often lobed, terminal one narrowed to its 

 rather emarginate base. Petioles with hooked prickles. Pedun- 

 cles simple, elongated, patent ; terminal flower nearly sessile. 

 Bracts lanceolate. 



/3. carinatus (Bell Salt. !) ; aculeis falcatis, foliolis omnibus elllptico- 

 lanceolatis basi apiceque acutis carinatis subtus venis prominenti- 

 bus, panicula simplici, pedunculis longissimis, " fructibus atro- 

 rubentibus." Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 365. 



Stony but rather damp places in the north. Somewhat boggy 



