Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 237 
_- panicule tomentose ramis ascendentibus. Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 
366. 
R. macroacanthos, Rub. Germ. 44. t. 18. 
6. argenteus (Bell Salt.!); caule patente-piloso, aculeis rectis, fo- 
liolis planis subtus molliusculis, panicule tomentose ramis ascen- 
- dentibus. Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 367. 
“ R. argenteus, Rub. Germ. t. 19.” 
Common. July and August. 
Obs. 1. I have placed both the plants of the ‘Rubi Germ.’ under 
the type of this species, but neither of those plates exactly repre- 
sents either of our plants. The narrow leaves of the R. fru- 
ticosus of that work agree well with the more common English 
plant, but then they are combined with a deeply furrowed gla- 
brous barren shoot. In our plant this form of leaf is most usually 
found upon silky angular but scarcely furrowed shoots. Also the 
much rounder leaves of the R. discolor (Rubi Germ.) is an at- 
tendant upon a furrowed barren shoot and a thyrsoid panicle in 
this country. 
Obs. 2. The panicle in var. a. and B. has a different appear- 
ance from that of var. y. and 6. owing to its lower branches, 
although short, spreading at nearly a right angle from the rachis ; 
in the later varieties they are usually rather longer, but ascend 
from a very acute angle with the rachis. 
Obs. 3. Dr. Bell Salter has given to me a form of this plant 
under the manuscript name of var. levis, differmg from the ty- 
pical state in having its flowering shoot nearly without prickles. 
It seems hardly deserving of a distinctive name ; it is probably 
the var. inermis of Godron. The R. abruptus (Lindl.) can only 
be considered as a state of the species, not a true variety. Such 
forms are found im many if not all the species. 
Obs. 4. A frustratus form of this species occasionally may be 
observed. It is almost exactly suberect, showing no tendency to 
prong its growing shoots so as to reach the ground, or indeed 
to do more than very slightly curve at the summit. In all other 
respects it resembles the typical plant. 
11. R. leucostachys (Sm.!); caule arcuato anguloso piloso-villoso, 
aculeis zqualibus rectiusculis horizontalibus, foliis quinatis cori- 
-aceis planis subtus mollibus fulvo-albove-hirtis micantibus, foliolo 
terminali ovato rotundatove abrupte apiculato, panicula elongata 
angusta foliosa villosa vel tomentosa. 
R. leucostachys, Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2631. 
R. pubescens, Rub. Germ, 42. t. 16. 
Stem long, not furrowed, often nearly round ; pubescence loose, 
weak. Prickles numerous, ‘hairy. Leaflets, particularly those of 
the flowering shoot, often wavy at the margins. Flowering shoot 
