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the specimens above mentioned, to R. Kcehleri, y. pallidus, a very 

 glandulose bramble, although it is expressly stated by Smith that the 

 panicle is not at all bristly or setose, and the specimens preserved 

 distinctly negative its belonging to the glandular group. 



The true affinis of Weihe & Nees in ' Rubi Germanici,' has been 

 but recently brought before the notice of British botanists ; for mis- 

 taken by Smith and Lindley, and undescribed by Mr. Borrer, the 

 name only occurs in Mr. Babington's Synopsis as a synonym of co- 

 rylifolius, the latter, or rather my sublustris, having been mistaken for 

 it, so that this bramble is absent altogether from Mr. Babington's 

 Manual. I have brought it forward in my arrangement of the Rubi 

 in Dr. Steele's ■ Hand-book of Field Botany,' and it is satisfactory to 

 observe that Mr. Babington here coincides with me, having in the 

 Supplement to his Synopsis, No. II., identified the plant there men- 

 tioned with specimens gathered in Cowleigh Park, Malvern, where I 

 pointed it out to my indefatigable botanical friend the Rev. Andrew 

 Bloxam. I have since more fully studied this bramble, and agree 

 that its correct position is in the suberect section, as stated by Mr. 

 Babington in his Supplement. In fact, I have observed the very 

 smooth barren stems rising erect ten or twelve feet in the air before 

 bending, nor have I been able to detect any of them taking root. 

 Luxuriant specimens have the panicle very broad and compound, 

 hairy, with numerous, spreading, corymbose branches foliaceous al- 

 most to the summit. It appears to require moist ground to grow to 

 full perfection, and I observed it this year growing very high and 

 beautiful in damp thickets below Moorall's Well, Colwall, Hereford- 

 shire, where it produces fine fruit, not the case in dry situations, 

 which shows an affinity to the habit of R. suberectus. To the loca- 

 lities Mr. Babington has mentioned I can add Horsenton Wood, 

 Middlesex, and Ecclesbourne Glen, near Hastings, Sussex. That 

 R. affinis may be closely related to nitidus of Rub. Germ, is highly 

 probable, but it is altogether different in appearance and habit from 

 the bramble I have designated as Lindleianus, nor when once known 

 can they be confounded or mistaken. R. affinis is a lofty, aspiring 

 shrub, emulating its suberect congeners, but the other, it must be 

 truly stated, is really a prickly, grovelling plebeian, like others of the 

 same family, though as distinct in itself, deserving a place on the roll. 



Edwin Lees. 



Cedar Terrace, Henwick, Worcester, 

 December 4, 1848. 



