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figure* in Rubi Germanici, the cuspidate and crisped leaflets, the less 

 angled stems and the absence of remarkably long prickles in the pa- 

 nicle, and, I may add, a decided and obvious difierence in the general 

 appearance and habit of the plant, which I have found frequently 

 about Poole in Dorsetshire, quite distinguish it both from the Sel- 

 bome plant, and all the other forms of R. Koehleri. 



Whether Lindley intended by R. fusco-ater the plant of Weihe and 

 Nees, or Babington's variety of this name, 1 do not certainly know, 

 though I have reason to believe he intended the latter. This, I know, 

 by reference to his herbarium, is not the Poole plant above spoken of, 

 and which I believe there can be no doubt is identically the same, 

 which the authors of the species intended by fusco-ater, but that it is 

 the plant given as \a,Y. fuscus in my list, and to which variety I have 

 given this name, because it appears equally evident, both that it is 

 the plant which Weihe and Nees intended by their R. fuscus,t and 

 that it cannot properly be held as truly and specifically distinct firom 

 R. Koehleri. It is to be readily distinguished from the true ftisco-ater 

 by the narrowness and distinctness of the leaflets, from the normal 

 Koehleri, by the absence of the long straight prickles in the panicle, 

 and lastly, from the var. apiculata, to which it most nearly approach- 

 es, by the cuspidate leaflets and larger serratures. 



E. rosaceus (W. & N.) is the next name on our list. Though no 

 Rubus by this name has appeared in our British books, yet I cannot 

 altogether assert that it is new to our Flora, it being, as I have ascer- 

 tained by comparison, identical with the Channel Island plant given 

 by Mr. Babington in his Manual as R. Lejeunii. As however, his — 

 the only British — description, does not appear quite to characterize 

 the plant distinctly, I add the following modification of it. 



Stem slender, arched and rooting, angular, hairy, setose, abounding 

 with glands ; jrrickles numerous, slender, straight, deflected, very un- 

 equal and passing insensibly into setae. Leaves ternate, or occasion- 

 ally quinato-pedate ; leaflets stalked, obovate or obovato-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, hairy above, rather downy beneath, coarsely and unequally 

 sen'ated. Panicle with long straight prickles, decompound, with two 

 principal branches below, and tapering above. Calyx long, with a 

 foliaceous point, reflected in fi-uit. Bachis, peduncles and hracteas 

 densely covered with red glands. 



This is, indeed, a most truly beautifiil plant ; the petals are long, 



* Rubi Germanici, tab. xxvi. f Ibid. p. 73, tab. xxvii. 



