Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 245 
B. Leightonii (Bell Salt.!); foliolo terminali rotundato-obovato 
abrupte cuspidato. Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 367. 
R. Leightoni, Lees in Leight, Fl. Shrop. 233. 
y. Reichenbachii (Bell Salt.!); foliolo terminali subrotundo, caule 
hirsuto aciculis setisque paucis. Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 368. 
R. Reichenbachii, Rub. Germ. 87. t. 37. 
d. attenuatus ; foliolo terminali obovato longissime acuminato subtus 
pallide viridi. 
R. echinatus, Bab. Man. 96. not. Lindl. 
Hedges in the south. #. Shropshire; y. Isle of Wight, Dr. 
Bell Salter; 5. Somersetshire, Shropshire and Leicestershire. 
July. : 
Obs. 1. After much consideration I have formed the same 
opinion as Dr. Bell Salter upon this and the following species. 
The usually very setose rachis of the much-branched panicle, and 
the coarsely serrate and even jagged leaves distinguish this plant 
from the following, although occasionally one or the other cha- 
racter is wanting. In var. £. the leaves are usually rather finely 
but yet irregularly serrate, and in some forms of var. a. the rachis 
has a few sete. Jn all the forms the sepals are very strongly re- 
flexed from the fruit, and even closely adpressed to the peduncle ; 
they are also clothed with numerous dark setz and have gene- 
rally a leafy point. 
Obs. 2. The vars. y. and 6. have very much the appearance of 
being distinct species, and would be so considered did not inter- 
mediate states occur. Var. 6. is remarkable for having its leaf- 
lets gradually narrowed into a long jagged point, the base being 
occasionally narrowed in a similar manner. An incorrectly named, 
and supposed authentic specimen caused me formerly to consider 
this as R. echinatus (Lindl.), which I have now ascertained to be- 
long to R. fusco-ater of Weihe. 
Obs. 3. A Silesian specimen named R. Kehleri from Gra- 
bowski, one of the authors of the excellent ‘ Fl. Silesiz,’ does not 
agree with the description in that work, and appears to be a much 
less prickly form of my var. attenuatus of the present species. 
20. R. Radula (Weihe) ; caule arcuato procumbenteve anguloso as- 
pero, aculeis inzequalibus tenuibus basi dilatatis sparsis aciculos et 
setas pilosque ineequales crebros longe excedentibus, foliis quinatis 
inequaliter argute serratis, foliolis acuminatis, panicule longz 
_ foliose superne ultra-axillaris ramis brevibus corymbosis, sepalis 
, ovatis tomentosis a fructu laxe reflexis. 
R. Radula, Bell Salter in Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 367. 
Stem green or greenish purple. Prickles mostly large, but a 
few smaller passing insensibly into aciculi. Leaves dark green 
above, paler beneath ; lower pair of leaflets stalked. Panicle 
