166 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Westmoreland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Sussex. In a recent 
letter he adds various localities, from Forfar to the East High- 
lands. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
This plant ought probably to be combined with R. suberectus, 
as is done by Mr. Lees. Mr. Bloxam makes this note on my 
specimens of R. fissus:—‘* I cannot see much difference between 
R. suberectus and fissus.”’ Indeed, the larger and more numerous 
prickles and usually thicker leaflets appear to be the only differences 
between them. 
From the specimens named R. fissus by Professor Babington, 
in the Herbarium of the late Mr. Borrer at Kew, it is evident that 
he has relinquished, as distinctive, the characters taken from the 
consistence of the leaves and the direction of the fruit-calyx, as the 
plant from North-east Yorkshire, collected by Mr. Mudd, and sent 
by Mr. Baker, which agrees in these points with the normal state 
of R. suberectus, he there names R. fissus. 
Lesser sub-erect Bramble. 
Sus-Species I1I.—Rubus plicatus. Weihe & Nees. 
Prats CCCCXLYV. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 97. 
Barren stem sub-erect, angular with the angles very obtuse, 
smooth; prickles confined to the angles of the stem, strong, hooked 
or nearly straight from a large oblong base. Leaves of the barren 
stem quinate; leaflets rather thin, plicate, sparingly pilose beneath, 
finely and sharply irregularly dentate-serrate ; ‘ terminal leaflet 
cordate acuminate, basal leaflets usually sub-sessile; lateral leaflets of 
the flowering shoot rhomboidal-ovate, dilated at the base” (Bab.). 
Flowers in a raceme or panicle with rather short sub-corymbose 
branches; rachis and peduncles sparingly pilose. Fruit black when 
ripe, with the sepals reflexed. 
In heathy places and in woods. Not very common, but widely 
distributed from Hants, Sussex, and Devon to Aberdeen, according 
to Professor Babington in ‘Cybele Britannica,” Vol. III. p. 3389, 
though the last locality may belong to R. fissus. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
Prickles considerably larger, more hooked, and less uniform in 
size than in R. suberectus and fissus. Fruit larger and becoming 
quite black. | 
Professor Babington in the Kew Herbarium has confined the 
name RK. plicatus to plants which have the terminal leaflet ovate, 
