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



XLI. — A Synopsis of the British Rubi. 

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



[Continued from p. 247.] 



ft Aculei insequales, sparsi, in aciculos setasque adeuntibus. 



22. R.fusco-ater (Weihe) ; caule decumbente anguloso sparsim pi- 

 loso setoso, aculeis multis inaequalibus rectis, foliis quinatis opacis 

 subtus pallidis mollibus nitidis sericeis, foliolo terminali cordatO' 

 ovato acuminato undulato, infimis intermediis incumbentibus, pani- 

 culse inferne foliosse setosse ramis corymbosis. 



R. fusco-ater, Rub. Germ. 72. t. 26. 



R. Radula (Lindl.), Leight. ! 



Barren stem with numerous rather unequal moderately large 

 prickles, and more or less numerous unequal smaller ones con- 

 necting them with the small aciculi and the setae. Petioles with 

 strong declining or deflexed prickles, lower leaflets (in our plant) 

 nearly or quite sessile, terminal leaflet rather broad at the base, 

 all pale green beneath. Panicle clothed with numerous short 

 hairs and setge and long and strong prickles. Calyx patent or 

 loosely reflexed from the fruit. 



/3. candicans; caulis petiolorumque aculeis paucioribus pilis numero- 

 sioribus, foliis subtus albis, foliolo terminali rotunda obovato, in- 

 fimis petiolatis, panicula hirsuta. 



R. Radula, Lees MSS. ! 



y. echinatus ; caulis petiolorumque aculeis multis, foliis concoloribus 

 subtus duris rigide pilosis, foliolo terminali obovato, infimis petio- 

 latis, paniculas pilis longis setis aciculisque longioribus aculeis 

 crebris minimis tenuibus. 



R. echinatus, Lindl. ! 8yn. ed. 1. 94; Leight. ! Ft. Shrop. 235. not 

 Bab. 



Isle of Wight and Dorset, Dr. Bell Salter ; Shropshire ; Leices- 

 tershire, Rev. A. Bloccam. ^. Little Malvern, Worcestershire, 

 Mr. E. Lees. y. Almond Park, Salop. July and August. 



Obs. 1. I have received from my friend the Rev. W. H. Cole- 

 man a plant gathered in Mangrove Lane, Hertford, which appears 

 to be referable to the type of this species. Its leaves are almost 

 exactly cordate and cuspidate, glabrous above, very finely tomen- 

 tose beneath ; the petioles have fewer prickles. The barren shoot 

 has scarcely any hairs, few setae, very few and short aciculi ; its 

 prickles are rather numerous and mostly large and equal, but 

 there are a few very unequal and smaller. Another plant sent 

 to me by Mr. F. Adamson, who states that it is " not uncommon 

 near Gouroch '' in Renfrewshire, has fewer large prickles on its 



* Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Feb. 12, 1846. . 



