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" 2. Filament shorter, stouter, slightly silky ; connective trans- 

 formed into a cernuons ovariura-like body, shaped like the capsule of 

 some of the Hypna, with faint traces of anthers upon its sides ; beak 

 dilated into the resemblance of a stigma. 



" 3. Stalk filament-like ; ovary narrowly lanceolate, gray, silky, 

 curved ; stigma sessile, irregular, but viscid. 



" 4. Stalk rather longer than in the normal pistil ; ovary gray, silky, 

 flask-shaped ; style very short ; stigmas perfect, somewhat emargi- 

 nate." — John G. Baker ; Thirsk, near Yorkshire, May 7, 1853. 



Rubus lalifolius, Bab. 



" Whilst Rubi are under consideration, perhaps I may be allowed 

 to suggest the idea that this supposed new species, described in the 

 third edition of the ' Manual,' is a luxuriantly-developed form of R. 

 corylifolius, bearing the same relation to the type that var. pseiido- 

 Idceus bears to R. caesius, or R. Borreri, Bell-Salter, to R. Sprengelii, 

 Weihe (see Phytol. iv. 917, 918). It is recorded in the Supplement 

 to the ' Cybele' as a native of the Humber province, on faith of spe- 

 cimens collected in the hedges between Thirsk and the village of 

 Thorpfield ; so that I have had an excellent opportunity for studying 

 it in a growing state. In the extreme form, in this neighbourhood, it 

 is a large, coarse-looking bramble, rivalling R. Balfourianus or R. 

 macroacanthus in size, with a thick, furrowed, and angular barren 

 stem, green in the shade, but purplish and glabrous, like that of the 

 Nitidi, when exposed. The leaflets are exceedingly dilated, and con- 

 sequently much imbricated ; the terminal one rotundato-cordate, 

 acuminate, even occasionally broader than long, and pilose beneath, 

 as described. But gradually and imperceptibly, as we pass along, 

 the stem becomes more slender and less angular, the prickles smaller, 

 and the leaflets narrower and thicker in texture ; and without any 

 abrupt transition we arrive at the ^ conjungens^ form of R. corylifo- 

 lius ; this, again, gliding into the type of the species, with its charac- 

 teristic, round, and slightly setose stem, slender and somewhat irre- 

 gular prickles, and leaves whitish and tomentose below." — Id. 



Rubi in the North of England. 



" Probably nearly all the fruticose forms will be found to extend 

 their range to the north of the Humber ; thirty out of thirty-eight 

 species described in the third edition of the ' Manual ' having already 

 been detected by very imperfect research. In North Yorkshire, the 

 commoner species, arranged in their order of frequency, are discolor, 



