Dr. Bell Salter on three new species of Rubus. 307 



Excc])t in a few spots in the Isle of Wight, I have never yet 

 noticed this species. 



3. Rubus Babingtonii. Caule arcuato, tereti, sulcato, hispido ex 

 aculcis, ft aciculis crcbris in setas ineuntibus, sjiarsim glanduloso ; 

 foliis ternatis, rarius quinatis ; foliolis supra glabris, subtus parco 

 pubescentibus, rhomboido-cordatis, cusj)idatis, duplo et ina;quiUiter 

 mucronato- ct crenato-serratis ; stipulis lincaribus, pubescentibus ; 

 panicula foliosa, multum ramosa, versus tcrram ut surculo induta, 

 supra tomcntosa, aculeata, setosa ; foliis panicula; ternatis vol sim- 

 plicibus, ina^qualitcr mucronato-crenatis ; bracteis foliaccis, late 

 lanccolatis, pilosis glandulosis ; calycibus lanceolatis cuspidatis, 

 pilosis. 



Hub. ad Selborne j^rope Week-bill. 



This is one of the most remarkable of the genus which I have 

 yet met with. It is a bramble of extraordinary size, and I regret 

 not having measured a growing shoot, that I might give its di- 

 mensions ; the panicle is more than 2 feet in length. It is a matter 

 of difficulty to settle with which of our previous species it would 

 most naturally be grou])cd. Its prickly inflorescence, accompa- 

 nied with glands, would associate it with the Koehleri group, 

 while the very tomentose clothing of this part would more nearly 

 associate it with R. Icucostachys, from which however the presence 

 of glands at once separates it. The hispid shoot however is that 

 which best marks its true affinity, which must, I conclude, be 

 with the Rudis group, from all of which however it is distin- 

 guished by the leaves, though slightly pubescent, being green 

 beneath, and ternate instead of quinate. The peculiar margin of 

 the leaves, which are mucronato-crenate, or as Mr. Babington* 

 more minutely specifics it, " serrato-apiculate towards the base, 

 and higher up crenato-dcntato-apiculate,'^ at once distinguishes it, 

 not only from the jagged-leaved species of the Rudis group, but 

 from all other of our fruticose Ruhi, while the existence of ternate 

 leaves on a bramble of such dimensions adds to the peculiarity of 

 its appearance. The shoot, though described above as sulcate, is 

 not angular, the margins of the grooves being rounded. Not- 

 withstanding the size of the panicle, the fruit itself is remarkably 

 small. 



I have named this species after my friend I\Ir. Charles C. Ba- 

 bington, the learned author of the ' Manual of British Botany,^ 

 in acknowledgement not only of his assistance in discriminating 

 its characters, but of his successful labours, as well in this as in 

 so many other difficult genera, and indeed in the whole British 

 flora. 



* In a letter to the author of these remarks. 



