244: Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 
with a prominent midrib which is lengthened into an acuminate 
point. Fruit small and composed of small drupes. 
{. Bloxamii ; caule anguloso lateribus planis striatis, aculeis parvis, 
aciculis setisque brevissimis, panicule ramis brevibus paucifloris 
corymbosis. 
Week Hill, Selborne, Hampshire, Dr. Bell Salter. B. Very 
abundant in a lane by Hartshill Wood, Warwickshire, but on the 
opposite side from the wood, Rev. A. Bloxam. July. 
Obs. 1. In some respects this plant approaches R. thyrsiflorus 
(Weihe), but in that the greater part of the panicle is extra- 
foliaceous, in this it is leafy to the end. From R. Kehleri, to 
which it has some points of resemblance, it is separated by the 
sectional characters. From the three following species it is 
abundantly distinguished by its stout aciculi and sete, usually 
ternate leaves and large floral leaves. The dentate-apiculate 
margin of its leaves distinguishes it from all the British species 
except R. Leightonianus, with which however it cannot be con- 
founded, that not being a glandulose plant. 
Obs. 2. The var. B. Bloxamii has a panicle of very different 
aspect from that of the typical R. Babingtonii, the branches being 
short and distinctly corymbose, the floral leaves larger, especially 
towards the summit of the panicle, and more usually pilose. The 
prickles of the growing shoot are neither so numerous nor so 
strong, the sete and aciculi are very short and more equal, the 
hairs much more numerous ; the leaves more frequently quinate. 
In one instance the terminal leaflet of a ternate leaf is subdivi- 
ding at its base as in R. suberectus, so as to form a partially pin- 
nate leaf. 
19. R. rudis (Weihe); caule arcuato procumbenteve paululum sul- 
cato aspero, aculeis subzequalibus validis declinatis in caulis an- 
gulis permulto locatis aciculis setis pilisque zequalibus multo lon- 
gioribus, folits quinatis grosse duplicato-serratis subtus albis, pa- 
niculz longze foliose superne ultra-axillaris ramis corymbosis as- 
cendentibus, sepalis lanceolatis aciculatis setosis a fructu reflexis 
petioloque adpressis. 
R. rudis, Bell Salter in Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 367. 
Stem dark fuscous. Prickles not passing into the aciculi or 
sete. Leaves dark green above; lower pair of leaflets stalked. 
Panicle mucli-branched ; prickles long, slender and nearly hori- 
zontal ; rachis usually very setose. Sepals generally ending in a 
foliaceous point, clothed with dark sete. 
a. rudis ; foliolo terminali obovato-lanceolato. 
R. rudis, Rub. Germ. 91. t. 40. 
R. Radula, Leight. Fl. Shrop. 232. 
R. Radula y. Hystrix, Bab. Man. 96. 
