40 Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 



Obs. I am now convinced that the variety of R. Radula for- 

 merly referred by Dr. Bell Salter and myself to R. foliosus 

 (Weihe) is not the plant intended by that author, which (what- 

 ever may be thought of the claims of my R. hirtus f^. foliosus) 

 seems to be very closely allied to R. Menkii (Weihe). 



25. R. glandnlosus, Bell. 



e. rotundifolius ; caule subanguloso pilose setose, aculeis parvis 

 multis, /b/«o/o terminali rotundo cuspidate basi subcordato insequa- 

 liter duplicato-cuspidato-dentato , prope basin mucronato-serrato, 

 paniculse hirtse aculeis multis tenuibus rectis declinatis setis bre- 

 vibus multis ramis paucis brevibus ascendentibus apiceque pauci- 

 floris. 



Barren shoot rather angular with small numerous yellow 

 prickles ; hairs and setse abundant, the latter very short. Leaves 

 mostly ternate, thin, opake, with scattered hairs above, ashy and 

 pilose beneath ; terminal leaflet nearly round but slightly nar- 

 rowed below, in one of my specimens it is considerably narrowed 

 below ; lateral leaflets unequally bilobed (or rarely divided into 

 separate leaflets) ; all wavy at the margin ; petioles armed like 

 the stem. Hairs on the flowering shoot and panicle long, setae 

 mostly short and sunken amongst the hairs, prickles rather long 

 and very slender ; leaves ternate; branches very few, very short ; 

 sepals lanceolate with an attenuated point, setose, acicular, re- 

 flexed (?) from the fruit. 



In small quantity in the same plantation with R. glandulosus 

 y. 7'osaceiis and 8. dentatus, near Twycross, Leicestershire, Rev. 

 A. Bloxam. 



25*. E. Guntheri, Weihe. 



/3. pyramidalis ; caule procumbente,yb/i75 supra subglabris opacis : 

 marginibus deflexis, paniculce pyramidalis apice et ramis racemosis 

 rachide recta rigida. 



Stem quite prostrate, conforming itself to the inequalities of 

 the ground, angular, not furrowed, greenish purple; prickles 

 rather numerous, short, strongly declining or slightly deflexed, 

 their base thick ; hairs few ; aciculi and short setae rather nume- 

 rous. Leaves ternate, or very rarely quinate-pedate, the edges 

 bent downwards, green on both sides, opake with strongly im- 

 pressed veins and scattered hairs above, paler and with yellowish 

 hairy veins beneath ; leaflets nearly equal, terminal one obovate- 

 cuspidate with a subcordate base, lateral leaflets similar but nar- 

 rower and unequal or lobed on the lower margin ; all irregularly 

 strongly dentate-serrate-apiculate ; general and partial petioles 

 and midribs armed beneath similarly but less strongly than the 

 stem ; stipules linear, hairy, setose. 



