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sub-cordate at the base, abruptly acuminate or cuspidate. Flowers 
in a long lax panicle, leafy below, with rather short spreading 
corymbose branches, or the lower ones longer, ascending and sub- 
racemose; rachis and pedicels pilose, sometimes with a few short 
eland-tipped sets, with numerous strong, straight, and hooked 
prickles. Calyx felted and pilose. 
a, R. Saltert. Bab. olim. 
Leaflets lobed or doubly serrate. Rachis of cylindrical panicle 
nearly straight ; branches corymbose, patent, a few sunken sete on 
the panicle and calyx. Sepals erect-patent. Petals white. 
B, BR. calvatus. Blox. (in Fl. Leicester, p. 42). 
Leaflets coarsely and doubly dentate-serrate. Panicle lax, with 
the rachis flexuous, upper branches corymbose, spreading, lower 
ones ascending and sub-racemose; numerous short gland-tipped 
setze on the rachis and branches. Sepals slightly reflexed. Petals 
pink “or deep rose-colour ”’ (Bab.). 
Open woods, hedges, and on heaths. Rare. « in Apse-Castle 
_ Wood, near Shanklin, Isle of Wight; 6 in Shropshire, Leicestershire, 
and Surrey. 
. England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
? The form « I have never seen, but Professor Babington considers 
- itand R. calvatus as the extremes of one species, while the Rev. 
} A. Bloxam says: “ R. calvatus is very distinct from R. Salteri 
_ as a species.” However this discrepancy may be explained, as 
’ Mr. Bloxam has kindly sent me a specimen, on the ticket of which 
is written: ‘Sent to me as R. Salteri, and much resembling a 
- specimen so named by Dr. Bell Salter.” I should have had no 
hesitation in referring this specimen to R. Balfourianus, and 
Dr. Bell Salter Ganiodded the two. — (Bot. Gazette, Vol. II. 
| pp. 119, 120.) 
Salter’s Bramble. 
Sup-Srecres XVI.—Rubus carpinifolius. Weihe & Nees. 
_ Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 101. 
| Barren stem erect-arching angular, sub-glabrous; prickles 
numerous, slender, declining, from a long compressed base. Leaves 
of the barren stem quinate; leaflets thin, sparingly pilose above, 
_ paler and densely pilose on the veins beneath, finely and evenly 
