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in the original 11. Bloxamii, and the other has several race- 

 mose branches; then the plants may ultimately prove to be 

 identical. Unfortunately I have not seen authentic speci- 

 mens of R. thyrsljlorus. The plant so-named by M. Questier 

 approaches very nearly to R. Bloxamii, especially to one of 

 the above-mentioned specimens from Mr Leighton. 



A very beautiful plant, gathered at Kenilworth by Mr 

 T. Kirk in 1854, closely resembles the figure of R. thyrsi- 

 JioTus in the Rubi Germanici (tab. 34). Its panicle accords 

 almost exactly with that plate, and must have been quite as 

 large; but the sepals are rather loosely adpressed to the 

 fruit, whilst those of R. thyrsijlorus are expressly stated to 

 be reflexed from it. The leaves of the barren stem, as far 

 as I know them, are very much smaller and more finely 

 (although similarly) toothed. The stem has moderate-sized, 

 compressed, declining, scattered prickles arising from very 

 long bases, and an abundance of short rather unequal aciculi 

 and seta?, most of them also springing from enormous bases. 

 All my knowledge of this plant being derived from one 

 specimen, it is out of my power to form a satisfactory 

 02:)inion concerning it; but I am inclined to think that it is 

 more nearly allied to R. Bloxamii than to any other bramble 

 which is known to me. As I have not this specimen now 

 before me I am unable to say how nearly it resembles 

 the specimens shown to me by Mr Baker, gathered be- 

 tween Eastgate and Westgate in Weardale, Durham. They 

 are very near this species, even if they should not be joined 

 with it. Genevier considers them as closely allied to R. 

 adscitus (Genev.), but more prickly. It is probable therefore 

 that Genevier's plant is very closely allied to R. Bloxamii^ 

 from which these specimens from Mr Baker seem chiefly to 

 difier by their much fewer and more deciduous setie, and 

 much more naked panicle, of which not more than the few- 

 lowest branches are axillary. R. adscitus was described in 



