240 Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 
year’s shoot apparently from the ground—in the lower part leafy 
and clothed nearly as the barren shoot, but the prickles some- 
what smaller, and the hairs more numerous and longer. Leaves 
like those of the barren shoot but rather more hairy: upper or 
floral portion branched. Branches rather distant, slender and 
few- (about three-) flowered and spreading; one or two lower 
ones axillary from ternate leaves, which towards the summit pass 
into leafy bracts. Peduncles and calyx very hairy, with shining 
patent hairs interspersed with shaggy pubescence. Petals ovate, 
obtuse, rugose, of a very beautiful rose-pink. Stamens erect. 
Bredbury Wood, Cheshire, plentifully, Mr. Joseph Sidebotham. 
Near Congleton, Cheshire, Mr. S. HE. Wilson. 
Obs. 1. Our English plant has both the prickles and petals 
slightly more elongated than represented in the ‘ Rubi Germa- 
nici.’ In other respects both the figure and description im that 
work represent ours most faithfully. 
Obs. 2. This is one of the most beautiful as well as most di- 
stinct of our Rudi, and is a highly interesting addition to our 
flora. R. Sprengelii, with its concealed branched and creeping 
barren shoot, and its erect delicate flowering stem growing ap- 
parently from the ground, approaches most nearly in appearance 
to the herbaceous forms, but in appearance only, as it is, though 
small, weak and trailing, one of the true fruticose species, its pa- 
nicles in reality emanating froma biennial shoot. In the general 
form of the leaf and leaflets it very much resembles A. glandu- 
losus (particularly the var. rosaceus), as also in having the ter- 
minal leaflet articulated ; in the grooving of the veins above and 
their prominence beneath it resembles R. Radula, while the mid- 
rib approaches the carinated aspect of that part in the var. cari- 
natus of R. plicatus. 
The delicately slender wire-like branches and peduncles, and 
the beautifully bright tint of its flowers, formed of reticulated or 
rugose-plicate petals, render this plant remarkably beautiful. 
Obs. 3. The two kinds of hairiness on the peduncles of this 
plant are very striking: it is like the patent, parallel villosity of 
R. sylvaticus, combined with the shaggy hairiness, spreading in 
all directions, of R. leucostachys. The shining rigid patent hairs 
may be seen protruding through the tomentum. 
N.B. I am indebted for the above character, description and 
observations to Dr. Bell Salter, as I have seen no native speci- 
mens of R. Sprengelit. 
15. R. Leightonianus (n. sp.); caule arcuato subanguloso hirto, 
aculeis paulo inequalibus rectis paulo declinatis, foliis quinatis 
ternatisve duplicato-apiculato-dentatis supra pilosis subtus pallide 
viridibus hirtisque, foliolo terminali rotundato acuto, paniculz in- 
