Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 171 
places in Sussex, Mr. Borrer. 8. Burnt House, Isle of Wight, 
Dr. Bell Salter. July and August. 
Obs. 1. Near the extremity of the barren shoots the prickles 
are more hooked, but as that part is usually dead and lost at the 
flowering season the prickles are then all nearly straight. 
Obs. 2. The 8. carinatus does not agree well with this spe- 
cies and may prove distinct. All its leaves, especially those of 
the flowering shoot, differ remarkably from those of the true R. 
plicatus, to which I refer many plants which would be named 
R. suberectus by numerous English botanists; the leaves of the 
flowering shoots combining with general habit to point out their 
true location. 
Obs. 3. The R. nitidus from “ Snelsmore Common near New- 
bury,” gathered by Mr. Bicheno and preserved in Smith’s herb., 
appears almost certainly to be R. plicatus ; as are also the R. sub- 
erectus from Frant and from Ashdown Forest. R. nessensis, a 
cultivated specimen from Mr. J. Mackay, and one named R. sud- 
erectus by Smith from “ Scotland, Mr. G. Don,” are R. plicatus. 
A German specimen named &. plicatus by Mr. Sonder of Ham- 
burg is the same as our plant, to which also specimens named 
R. suberectus and R. fastigiatus by Dr. Weihe belong. 
4. R. fastigiatus (W. et N.?); caule decurvo vel procumbente angu- 
loso glabro, aculeis paucis rectis declinatis equalibus in caulis 
angulis congestis, foliis quinato-digitatis planis, foliolo terminali 
cordato acuminato infimis subsessilibus intermediis incumbentibus, 
ramorum floriferorum lateralibus basi dilatatis, panicule subsim- 
plicis foliosz apice corymboso, sepalis a fructu reflexis. 
R. fastigiatus, Rub. Germ. 16. t. 2.? 
Stems very long, but (I believe) not rooting. Prickles dilated 
at the base, distant. Leaves green on both sides, pilose above, 
paler and downy beneath, flexible, large, unequally dentate-ser- 
rate. Petioles and midrib with strong hooked prickles. Panicle 
with few small straight declining prickles: floral leaves few 
simple cordate-ovate. Peduncles simple, elongate, ascending, 
downy with spreading hairs; lower ones distant axillary, upper 
corymbose ; terminal peduncle much shorter than the others. 
Leaves of the flowering shoots ternate. 
In dense woods at Jardine Hall in Dumfries-shire. August 
and September. 
Obs. This plant so closely agrees with the figure and descrip- 
tion of R. fastigiatus as given in the ‘ Rubi Germ., that it is 
considered better to retain that name for it. It differs chiefly 
by having its lower leaflets nearly sessile and overlapping the 
ce mala pair, and the almost exactly dentate margin of its 
eaves. 
