Mr. C. C. Babington on some species of Rubi. 127 



many setae and acicnli ; branches mostly axillary, ascending, 

 shorter than the leaves, bearing a corymb of 1-3 long-stalked 

 flowers ; summit corymbose ; terminal flower shortly stalked. 

 Sepals ovate with a long subulate or linear point, hairy tomen- 

 tose setose and greenish with a narrow margin of white tomentum 

 externally, whitely tomentose but purple at the base within, 

 loosely reflexed from the fruit. Petals oblong, narrowed at both 

 ends but especially below. Primordial fruit small, hemispherical. 



In woods and hedges. Twy cross, Leicestershire ; and Harts- 

 hill Wood, Warwickshire, Rev. A. Bloxam. Shawbury Heath, 

 Salop, Rev. W. A. Leighton. Islay and Loch Eil in Scotland. 



This plant has long been confused with R. villicaulii. and was 

 included with it and R. calvatus under the name of R. sylvaticus 

 in my ' Synopsis/ It is believed that the characters given above 

 will always distinguish it from them. In the shape of its leaves 

 and its very loose panicle with singularly long-stalked flowers, it 

 closely resembles R. Lingua, as represented in the ' Rubi Ger- 

 manici/ but the armature of its stem is very different. 



6. R. calvatus (Blox.) ; caule arcuato anguloso sulcato patenti-piloso, 

 aculeis crebris tenuibus compressis basi paululum dilatatis rectis 

 subpatentibus, foliis 5-natis tenuibus utrinque ririchbus in venis 

 subtus pilosis grosse dentato-serratb, foliolo tenninali ovato-acumi- 

 nato basi cordato, paniculse longae foliosse laxae hirtae brevi-setosse 

 ramis subracemosis et aculeis crebris longis tenuibus declinatis, 

 sepalis longe cuspidatis hirtis tomentosis setosis a fructu laxe re- 

 flexis. 



R. calvatus, Blox. in Kirbys Fl. Leicestr. 42 ; Bab. Man. ed. 3. 97. 

 R. sylvaticus, Blox. MS. ' 



Stem arched, angular, furrowed, very slightly hairy, of a bright 

 shining red when exposed, ultimately becoming quite glabrous ; 

 hairs patent, not clustered ; aciculi and setae very few ; subsessile 

 glands rather numerous ; prickles less strictly confined to the 

 angles of the stem than in its allies, many, slender, compressed, 

 slightly enlarged at the base, very slightly declining. Leaves 

 quinate, thin, green on both sides, glabrous above, shortly pilose 

 on the veins and rough beneath, coarsely and doubly dentate or 

 dentate-serrate ; petiole and midrib coloured like the stem, with 

 rather many long slender large-based declining or deflexed 

 prickles ; midrib with smaller prickles ; lower pair of leaflets 

 stalked, oblong, acute ; intermediate pair stalked, obovate, sub- 

 cuspidate, a little cordate at the base; terminal leaflet with a 

 rather long stalk roundly oblong or slightly obovate, subcuspi- 

 date, cordate at the base. Stipules linear-lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot long, rather angular, green, hairy ; prickles 

 . many, rather long and slender, lengthening gradually from the 



