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ON SOME SCOTTISH RUBI. 



near Cramond Bridge in L. ; and I have received dried specimens 

 of it in most of my Scottish Eubus parcels. Other distinctive 

 characters which may be added to my description of this form in 

 Jourji. But. 1894, 44, are — Stem hairy, with crowded long short- 

 based straight prickles, and petals white or very faintly pinliish, 

 narrow, long-clawed. IL Selmeri seems to be the commonest fruti- 

 cose bramble in Scotland, as in most parts of the British Isles. 

 Wherever, in the five counties I visited last July, I saw brambles 

 in considerable quantity, I invariably came on this; and usually 

 as one of the most conspicuous, as always one of the most easily 

 recognized forms. For this var. therefore I abstain from giving 

 localities in detail. 



Ii. rho)nbifuliiis Weihe. I think certainly a strong form of this 

 in one place between L. Vennachar and Callander (W.P.). 



SiLVATICI. 



It. iiiacruphi/llus W. & N. (sp. collect.). Not seen in good quantity, 

 nor in typical form. W.P. On a plant occurring between Callauder 

 and Lake of Monteith, which I thus named somewhat hesitatingly, 

 Dr. Focke writes, "/?. viticrophi/llns: a small and very hairy variety, 

 corresponding to a similar variety of R. pi/raniidalis." M.P. J3et\veen 

 Killin and L. Tay, for some distance along a steep and partially 

 shaded bank, occurs a large handsome form with glandular panicle 

 and ascending sepals. Here also Dr. Focke agreed with me in 

 giving this name in an aggregate sense, adding the note, "leaves 

 tapering towards the base as in E. HchlechtendaUi, sepals patent 

 after flowering. Somewhat off type." S. Garguunock, wood-border. 

 A weak shade form. 



R. hirtifoUus Muell. & Wirtg., var. danicus Focke. Dr. Focke 

 accepts this name that I gave to a frequent and very handsome 

 Scottish bramble, for which I as yet know no certain English 

 locality, though I have so named Westmeath specimens collected 

 by the Eev. E. F. Linton in 1895. The following is Dr. Focke's 

 note on my W.Perth specimens: — " This is indeed my Ruhus 

 danicus, which I put as a variety under R. hirti/ulius Muell. & Wirtg. 

 It is a plant that is nearly intermediate between R. macruphyllus 

 and R. pijrainidalis. Terminal leaflet much more rounded than in 

 either species." It seems to me much nearer to var. Schlechtendalii 

 than to typical viacrophijlliis, though distinguished from both 

 without difficulty by the ascending sepals (common to it and to 

 R. hirtifoUus) and the very differently shaped terminal leaflet. 

 This more roundish cuspidate-acuminate terminal leaflet is also 

 one of the characters by which danicus is distinguished from typical 

 Jiirtifulius, together with the more hairy under surface of the leaves 

 and the luxuriant panicle with more conspicuously hairy rachis and 

 more showy flowers. The bracts are usually somewhat gland- 

 ciliate, and the pedicels occasionally a little glandular; but generally 

 it seems a more nearly eglandular plant than the type, though that 

 also, like many of its allies, is variable in this respect. The petals 

 are white, and the sepals reflexed in flower, but quickly becoming 

 patent. W.P. Common ; Callander, L. Earn, Lake of Monteith, 



