86 GUERNSEY. 
(Rubus Idaeus, L., the Raspberry, oocurs in Alderney.) 
Rubus affinis, Wh. and N. Var. Briggsianus, Rogers. 
Native. First record: Rogers, 1898. 
In several places, especially at St. Sampson’s, Cobo, Petit Bot 
Bay, and St Peter’s. Exactly the British form described in 
Journ. Bot. 1894, p. 42.* 
Rubus rhamnifolius, Wh. and N. (sp. coll.). 
Native. First record: Rogers, 1898. 
Fermain Bay. Petit Bot Bay. Very near the ordinary British 
form (2. cardiophyllus, Lefv. and Muell.) if not identical with it. 
Rubus pulcherrimus, Neum. 
Native. First record: Rogers, 1898. : 
Rather common. La Vallette. Lanes near Ville au Roi. Petit 
Bot Bay. St Peter’s. Near Vale Castle. . 
Rubus dumnoniensis, Bab. 
Native. First record: Rogers, 1898. 
Petit Bot Bay, in good quantity. Also at Rocquaine Bay and 
one or two other localities. Usually identical with our luxuriant 
British form. But a second form occurs in Sark, and also at Petit 
Bot Bay (unknown thus far in Britain) with terminal leaflet subrotund 
and strongly cordate. 
Rubus rhombifolius, Weihe. 
Native. First record: Rogers, 1898. 
Fermain Bay. 
Rubus argentatus, P. J. Muell. 
Native. First record: Rogers, 1898. 
Generally distributed, but variable: one of the most abundant 
brambles in the island. La Vallette. Lanes near Ville au Roi. 
Les Norgiots. Fermain Bay. Petit Bot Bay. St. Peter’s. Near 
Vale Castle. Var. vobustus, P. J. Muell. Here, rather than under 
the type, appear to belong forms that occur at Cobo, St. Sampson’s, 
Fermain Bay, and near St Martin’s Church: but the range of 
variation is considerable and somewhat bewildering. 
* All the information contained in these pages respecting the brambles of Guernsey 
and the smaller islands is extracted from a valuable paper on ‘The Rubi and Rosae 
of the Channel Islands,’ contributed to the Journal of Botany for March, 1898 (p. 85), 
by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S., to whom I return my grateful acknowledg- 
ments. Until Mr. Rogers visited these islands in 1897, very little was known about 
the local forms of this difficult and perplexing genus. Only five species were recorded 
by Professor Babington in the Flora Sarnica in 1839, and, in Mr. Rogers's opinion, 
‘it is probably quite impossible now to ascertain what plants he referred to under the 
names he gives.’ Mr. Rogers states that ‘in all the islands the vast majority of the 
brambles seen are practically identical with our British forms,’ and ‘no localities are 
given for the islands except those in which [Mr. Rogers] saw the plants in question 
growing.’ piete S OR 
