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to Lindleiautts, which will, I believe, have to be described as a new 

 species, should it not be found to be identical with some Continental 

 one." We now find the possibility thus hinted at established as a 

 fact in tbe opinion of Dr. Focke, for he in his " Notes " (Journ. Bot. 

 xxviii. 102, 3) calls this plant R. erythrinus Genev., without ques- 

 tion. It will be seen that I had the pleasure last summer of 

 showing it to him in many spots near Plymouth, and that he also 

 saw it with the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers and myself near Daggons, 

 Dorset. It is in compliance with his expressed wish that I should 

 say something about it that I write this notice, and give the fol- 

 lowing description : — 



' Rubus erythrinus' Genev., Focke in Journ. Bot. xxviii. 102, 3. 



Stem strong, arcbing, angular, glabrous, or with few short hairs, 

 of a dull dark purplish red in exposure, shining. Prickles on tbe 

 angles, uniform, of moderate length, purplish red with yellow 

 points, strong, sbarp, slightly declining from an oblong compressed 

 base. Leaves 5-nate. Leaflets thin, bright green, shining above, 

 with very few distant hairs or glabrous, rather thickly clothed with 

 short hairs beneath ; irregularly but not very deeply dentate, or 

 dentate-serrate, flat, or very slightly waved just at the edges, some- 

 times convex ; lower oblong with short point ; intermediate 

 obovate-acuminate ; terminal long-stalked, broadly obvovate-, or 

 even oval-acuminate, somewbat cordate at the base ; petioles with 

 many strong hooked prickles, thinly hairy ; stipules linear-lan- 

 ceolate. 



Flowering shuot rather long and narrow, with few hairs on the 

 lower portion of tbe stem ; prickles on the angles, somewbat scat- 

 tered, small but strong, slender, declining. Leaves 3-nate, sometimes 

 5-nate. Leaflets thin, sinning above, obovate or oval-acuminate ; 

 lower with short point. Panicle often compound, of moderate 

 length, hairy, densely so and sometimes felted towards the top, 

 sub-pyramidal in outline, being abruptly rounded at the top ; 

 branches short and few-flowered, rather lax, separate for at least 

 two-tbirds the length of the panicle ; axillary ascending ; ultra- 

 axillary sub-patent ; lateral peduncles about equal to or exceeding 

 in length the peduncle of the terminal flower in each division of the 

 panicle ; prickles not abundant, strong, declining. Leaves some- 

 times felted beneath towards tbe top. Sepals ovate, with short 

 linear points, hairy, felted within and without, reflexed. Petals 

 large, oval, regular, pink. Filaments long, white. Anthers fuscous. 

 Styles dull yellowish green. Fruit large, black, oblong, abundantly 

 produced. 



This plant differs from JR. Lindleianus in being much less 

 prickly, in having larger and broader flat or convex leaves with 

 dentate, or obscurely dentate-serrate, divisions ; when any waving is 

 present it is only close to the edges. Also in having tbe panicle 

 more pyramidal and less cylindrical, with distant branches below, 

 and by far tbe larger number separate from one another ; in 

 hiving flowers witb pink or tinted, not milk-white, petals, and in 

 producing large fruit. 



