Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 173 
cordate and slightly narrowed below; lateral obovate, pointed, 
narrowed below ; basal oblong, not overlapping the lateral leaflets. 
Flowering-shoot long, pubescent with lax hairs; prickles few, 
moderate, deflexed ; leaves ternate, green beneath; petioles and 
midribs with few small deflexed prickles; terminal leaflet ob- 
ovate-oblong, rather abrupt, jagged at the end. Stipules linear- 
lanceolate. Panicle narrow, compound, pubescent with lax hairs, 
not setose; prickles few, short, slightly deflexed; two or three 
lower branches axillary from ternate or 3-lobed or simply ovate 
leaves, often elongated and patent ; the other branches short and 
patent, simple or 2—3-flowered ; terminal flower sessile ; lower 
bracts foliaceous, upper ones trifid. Sepals woolly, ovate, closely 
embracing the oblong black fruit. Petals lanceolate, narrowed 
below. 
Apse Castle Wood, Isle of Wight, Dr. Bell Salter. July and 
August. 
Obs. 1. This is a very straggling plant, prostrate unless sup- 
ported by the neighbouring bushes or much shaded by trees. It 
is remarkably distinct in appearance from all its allies. 
Obs. 2. A plant found by the river-side above Cramond Bridge 
near Edinburgh probably belongs to the same species, but it has 
its terminal leaflets cordate-acute, a short panicle with fewer hairs 
and smaller and more numerous prickles, subquinate intermediate 
leaves, and stipules slightly more broadly ovate; its fruit and the 
direction of the calyx are unknown ; its petals are shortly ovate 
_ and clawed. A plant submitted to Dr. Bell Salter from Bradbury 
Wood, Cheshire, by Mr. Sidebotham, he considers to be identical 
with the plant of Cramond, but as with it, the direction of the 
calyx when in fruit is not ascertained. In Mr. Sidebotham’s 
plant the panicle is somewhat larger and more branched, by 
which it more nearly approaches the Isle of Wight or typical 
plant, while the prickles of that part are somewhat larger. A 
suberect form, similar to that noticed below (Ods. 3.), was sent 
with it from the same place. Another plant, kindly sent to me 
by the Rey. A. Bloxam, by whom it was gathered near Twycross, 
Leicestershire, in company with Mr. E. Lees, and named by the 
latter gentleman “ R. amplificatus (Lees),” is also a probable 
variety of R. Salteri. It differs from the typical specimens by 
having linear stipules; the petioles and midribs with more nu- 
merous and stronger prickles; the flowering-shoot with much 
stronger and more numerous hooked prickles, and leaves ashy 
beneath ; panicle with rather numerous and very strong hooked 
prickles, its branches nearly all axillary short few-flowered co- 
rymbose from ternate leaves, the uppermost leaf simple lanceo- 
late ; end of the panicle leafless, corymbose, terminal flower shortly 
stalked; the fruit smaller with a patent (?) calyx. This plant 
