274 RUBUS SILVATICUS W. & N. 



filiformes erecti subflexuosi (6-10 cm. alti) glabri striati uniflori. 

 Folia parva (6-10 mm. longa) ; radicalia suborbicularia vel late ovalia 

 margine ciliata ; caulina ovata vel plus minus auguste lanceolata 

 obtusiuscula glabrescentia suberecta, margine integro revoluto 

 lineata, ad caulis basin conferta. Flores erecti. Receptaculum 

 anguste obconicum, siccando nigricans, nervis paullo prominentibus 

 aequidistantibus. Calicis lobi (ut in C. patula) triangulari-lineares 

 acuti erecti subfalcati, corolla \ breviores. Corolla anguste infundibu- 

 laris, undique glabra, vix ad \ incisa ; lobi late triangulares patuli. 

 Staminum squamae suborbiculares, breviter ciliatae ; filamenta 

 squamis \ longiora e basi latiore angustata ; antherae lineares, fila- 

 mentis solis 3-plo longiores. Pollen luteum. Stili pars inferior 

 glabra strictura transiens in piliferam incrassatam obtusam subaequi- 

 longam ; stigmata late linearia, stilo 10-plo breviora. Ovarium 

 vertice fere planum. Ovula parva numerosa. Capsula et semina 

 milii non visa (dehiscentiae locus dubius). Fl. Iulio. 



Syn. C. pusilla Haenke, var. ? calycina Wk. & Lge., Prodr. Fl. 

 Hisp. ii., 292. 



Hab. In Hispanic bor. montibus Cantabricis, apud Convento 

 de Arvas regni Legionensis in glareosis torrentum (Bourgeau, PI. 

 d'Esp. 1864, n. 2656 (s. nom. C. pusilla, var. ? Cosson). 



The concordance of babit which this plant shows with C. cocJi- 

 leariifolia Lamk., 1783 = (C. pusilla Haenke, 1788), is chiefly a con- 

 sequence of the fact that both are species glareosce. Most of its 

 cbaracters do not occur in any of the forms of cochleariifolia ; thus 

 the fusiform root, the dark rigid leaves with revolute borders, the 

 single erect flowers with a long receptacle and broad calyx-lobes, as 

 well as the conformation of the style, separate C. cantabrica from 

 the said species, and there remains still an uncertainty as to its 

 nearest relations. 



RUBUS SILVATICUS W. & N. 

 By T. R. Archer Briggs, F.L.S. 



So long ago as 1880, when I published the ' Flora of Plymouth,' 

 I thought it possible that a bramble mentioned therein, in the last 

 paragraph under R. villicaulis, would prove to be the R. silvaticus 

 W. & N. I had not at that time a copy of the ' Rubi Germanici ' 

 to refer to, but was led to take this view through noticing the close 

 resemblance between specimens of tbe plant in question and 

 Continental ones of silvaticus received from Dr. Focke. 



Since then, however, I have found the English plant to agree 

 fairly well in essential features with both the plate and description 

 of silvaticus in the great German work (Rubi Ger. tab. xv. p. 41). 

 Moreover, I had the pleasure last year of showing a growing bush 

 of it to Dr. Focke, and tbis led to his notice of the species in his 

 recent " Notes on English Rubi " (Journ. Bot. xxviii. p. 130, May, 

 1890). It is with great satisfaction that I find him saying in refer- 

 ence to the English plants, " Mr. Briggs showed me, near Plymouth, 



