Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 319 



lanceolato acuminato grosse insequaliter serrato, paniculse inferne 

 ramosse (ssepe ramis duobus maximis) corymbosae superne hirtae 

 setis longis prominentihus aculeis declinatis vel subdeflexis. 

 R. rosaceus. Rub. Germ. 85. t. 36. 



Rare. a. Temngton Car, Yorkshire, Mr. Spruce. /S. Sel- 

 borne, Hants, Dr. Bell Salter ; Haugbton Vale, Mr. Sidebotham ; 

 Channel Islands. 7. Selborne, Hants, Dr. Bell Salter; Twy- 

 cross, Leicestershire, Rev, A. Bloxam ; S. Molton, Devon; Guild- 

 ford, Isle of Wight. July and August. 



Obs. 1. Observation both of the wild and cultivated plants 

 teaches us that these three varieties are only forms of one spe- 

 cies. Although believing this and the preceding species to be 

 specifically distinct, I have found very considerable difficulty in 

 defining them, so as at the same time to include all the varieties of 

 each and also distinguish the species. The leaves of this are nearly 

 always ternate, those of R. hirtus quinate, but they both vary in 

 this respect. In that the panicle is rather racemose than corym- 

 bose, the contrary being the case in R. glandulosus. Here the 

 setae are usually short, and but little longer than the hairs on 

 the panicle, and mostly equal in length (in R. Bellardi (Weihe) 

 they vary in this respect, and on foreign specimens are often 

 very variable both in length and number), in that they are many 

 of them very long and prominent and very various in length. 



Gbs. 2. Dr. Bell Salter considers my plants from the Channel 

 Islands to be R. rosaceus (Weihe), and therefore refers the R. Le- 

 jeunii of my ' ManuaP (p. 97) to that variety. They seem to me to 

 correspond far more with the figure and description of R. Lejeunii 

 (Weihe) as given in the ' Rubi Germanici.^ Similarly he refers 

 the plant found at Guildford in the Isle of Wight, and at Twy- 

 cross, Leicestershire, to R. Lejeunii, whilst I consider it to belong 

 to R. rosaceus. This shows how closely the plants are allied. 



26. R. humi/usus (Weihe) ', caule procumbente tereti hirto setose, 

 aculeis tenuissimis incequalibus multis declinatis, foliis ternatis vel 

 quinatis subtiliter inaequaliterque serratis subtus pallida viridibus 

 pilosisque, foliolo terminali cordato-o\B.to cuspidate, paniculre ra- 

 mosse inferne foliosse pilis laxis setis prominentibus aculeisque 

 longis tenuibus declinatis. 



R. humifusus, Rubi Germ. 84. t. 35. 



Stems, flowering shoots, peduncles and petioles beautifully 

 clothed with slender yellow prickles and aciculi which have a 

 purple base and pass insensibly into very long and slender and 

 very unequal setse. The lower branches of the panicle elongated, 

 ascending, 3 — 4-flowered ; the others mostly 1 -flowered. Stems 

 slender, fuscous, purple. 



Glen Falloch, Perthshire. July and August. 



