Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 317 



slender, whilst those of the panicle are increased in strength and 

 sometimes even hooked, those of the same part in a. and ^. being 

 straight. The var. S. is well marked by its short stout decli- 

 ning or often hooked prickles accompanied by long slender ones 

 on the panicle. And the great decrease in the number of the 

 larger prickles, combined with the increased number of aciculi, 

 setse and hairs in var. 6, point out its relationship to the next 

 species. By the kindness of Mr. Lees, I possess two specimens 

 of a plant from " the western base of the Malvern Hills '^ closely 

 resembling var. e ; it is densely hairy throughout, but has very 

 few setse or aciculi on the barren stems. 



Obs. 2. A specimen received from Mr. Lees under the name 

 of R.pallidus 0.foliosus (Lees), seems to occupy an intermediate 

 station between this and the next species ; it may be described as 

 follows, and should its peculiar panicle prove constant is probably 

 specifically distinct. 



Stem procumbent (?), angular, dark purple, hairy ; setae very 

 numerous and unequal ; prickles numerous, slightly declining, 

 straight, rather strong, yellow. Leaves quinate or ternate (?), 

 opake above, hairy, soft and paler beneath ; terminal leaflet 

 broadly obovate cuspidate. Panicle very long, with numerous 

 short axillary ascending corymbose (?) branches, the three upper- 

 most extrafoliaceous and subtended by long foliaceous bracts ; 

 rachis and peduncles very hairy, and with numerous unequal 

 yellowish setse with purple heads, and straight slender declining 

 yellow aciculi and prickles ; floral leaves pilose above, soft be- 

 neath, simple and cordate-ovate, 3-lobed, or the lower ones ter- 

 nate. Calyx hairy, with numerous unequal setae and aciculi ; se- 

 pals with a long leaflike point. Plant only in bud. 



Found on the " banks of the Wye near Vaga Cottage, Great 

 Doward, Monmouthshire,^^ Mr. E. Lees. 



24. R. hirtus (W. et N.) ; caule " procumbente tereti " hirto setoso, 

 aculeis parvis tenuibus valde inaequalibus multis rectis declinatis, 

 foliis quinatis vel ternatis concoloribus pilosis subtus hirtis, foliolo 

 terminali ovato-cuspidato vel ovato-lanceolato, paniculae valde se- 

 tosse tomentosse vel hirtse aciculatse racemosae inferne foliosae setis 

 valde incBqualibus purpureis, sepalis patentibus fructuive adpressis 

 setosis. 



Setse very numerous and very unequal. Panicle with rather 

 distant axillary branches, which are somewhat corymbose and 

 short ; in a Scottish specimen the panicle is quite simple. Upper 

 part of the flowering shoot with strongly deflexed or declining 

 prickles. 



a. Jdrtus ; foliis magnis quinatis, foliolo terminali ovali cuspidato, 



panicula tomentosa. 

 R. hirtus. Rub. Germ. 95. t. 43. 



