170 Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 
with any of our other species. It has quite the habit of R. Ideus ; 
its leaves are usually septenate by the separation of two leaflets 
from the base of the middle leafiet, they are thin, flexible and 
slightly pilose or quite glabrous ; the petioles and rachis bear a 
_ few short hooked prickles. The inflorescence is small, of a few 
solitary axillary flowers, and a small open terminal raceme. The 
floral leaves have all their leaflets narrowed to the base, not 
cordate. 
Obs. 2. R. fissus (Lindl.) seems scarcely to differ from this 
species, except by having more numerous and scattered prickles, 
the calyx of the fruit erecto-patent, and the fruit “ bright red.” 
In Lindley’s description of his R. fastigiatus (Syn. ed. 1. p. 91), 
which he declares to be R. fissus (Syn. ed. 2. p. 92), he describes 
the calyx as reflexed. It would thus seem either that he lays but 
little stress upon that character, or that, if it is of value, his R. 
fissus is not that of Leighton (Fl. Shrop. 225). The presence 
of “bright red ” fruit in Bell Salter’s R. suberectus B. trifoliatus 
shows that that cannot be depended upon as a certain distinction 
between R. suberectus and R. fissus. 
Obs. 3. A garden specimen of R. suberectus in Smith’s her- 
barium, which was given to him by Mr. Edw. Forster, is accom- 
panied by the observation, “The plant was given to me by Geo. 
Anderson, and is therefore authentic. E. FY” It is exactly our 
plant. 
3. R. plicatus (W. et N.); caule suberecto anguloso, aculeis zequa- 
libus parum deflexis in caulis angulis congestis, folits quinatis 
plicatis, foliolo terminali cordato-ovato acuminato infimis subses- 
silibus, ramorum floriferorum lateralibus rhombeo-ovatis basi dilata- 
tis, panicula subsimplici racemosa, sepalis a fructu (atro) reflexis. 
R. plicatus, Rub. Germ. 15. t. 1; Hing. Bot. Suppl. 2714. 
R. fruticosus, Arrh. Rub. Suec. 23. 
Stems 3—4: feet high, glabrous. Prickles slender, dilated at 
the base. Leaves rarely 7-nate, green on both sides, paler be- 
neath, pilose, unequally and acutely serrate; on the flowermg 
shoot generally ternate, basal leaflets dilated below especially on 
one side where they are often lobed, terminal one narrowed to its 
rather emarginate base. Petioles with hooked prickles. Pedun- 
cles simple, elongated, patent; terminal flower nearly sessile. 
Bracts lanceolate. 
f. carinatus (Bell Salt. !) ; aculeis falcatis, foliolis omnibus elliptico- 
lanceolatis basi apiceque acutis carinatis subtus venis prominenti- 
bus, panicula simplici, pedunculis longissimis, ‘‘ fructibus atro- 
rubentibus.” Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 365. 
Stony but rather damp places in the north. Somewhat boggy 
