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R. pubescens seems to agree with it, especially where it is remarked 

 of the " caules florigeri," — "in inferiori parte pilosi, intra paniculam 

 vero tomentosi." The leaflets, too, are said to be " ovato-oblonga," 

 and the " margine sub-crispa " is a remarkable character of agreement, 

 bnt as the figure fails, and specimens are wanting, no certainty can 

 exist as to the plants entirely coinciding, and most probably they do 

 not. 



In this extremity, seeing that the plant before us has been always 

 wrongly referred (for I cannot recognize it as nitidus), and that it 

 is at any rate uncertain whether characterized at all in the ' Rubi 

 Germanici,' I venture to propose a name and description that shall 

 at once decide the matter, and leave nothing to doubt. As Professor 

 Lindley has been much mixed up with British brambles, yet has 

 hitherto escaped commemoration among them, and as this one in 

 particular was described by him in his Synopsis, though with a 

 wrong appellation, which I followed, it may I think properly bear his 

 name, with the following diagnosis.* 



Its locality will be with the arching and rooting Rubi, and most 

 correctly, perhaps, the last in my Sub.-div. iii. Rubi Villosi, — " Stem 

 angular, arching, closely hairy, with occasional setce. Rachis very 

 hairy." 



R. Lindleianus. (Lindley's plaited-leaved bramble). Stem angu- 

 lar, closely hairy at the base, clothed with scattered, unequal hairs 

 above ; prickles hairy, straight, with long, pale points, rather crowded, 

 but confined to the angles ; leaves 5-nate on hairy and densely prickly 

 petioles, with appressed hairs on the upper surface, canescent and pu- 

 bescent beneath, leaflets all stalked, broadly elliptical, sharply serrate 

 or jagged, crisp and plaited at the edges, cuspidate ; rachis almost 

 smooth at the base, hairy above; panicle long, densely hairy, with 

 numerous spreading, cymose branches, very crowded and divaricated 

 at the top, and leafy nearly to the summit; peduncles densely hairy, 

 closely armed with long, pale prickles; calyx shaggy, its sepals more 

 or less prickly, with glands hidden in the dense pubescence. 



No figure can be indubitably referred to as representing this 

 species. 



* Before any one takes exception at this proceeding of mine, I beg him first 

 carefully to compare my description, taken from the living plant, with that of Ruhus 

 nitidus in the Rub. Germ., p. 20, combined with the reference to the figure of R. 

 suberectus in Eng. Bot., as representing their plant, and the assertion of Esenbeck 

 that nitidus is but a variety of plicatus. Let my plant, too, be compared with their 

 figure, t. iv. 



