314 Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 
XLI.—A Synopsis of the British Rubi. ! 
By Cuarzes C, Basineton, M.A., F.LS., F.G.8. &. * « 
[Continued from p. 247.] 
tt Aculei ineequales, sparsi, in aciculos setasque adeuntibus. 
22. R. fusco-ater (Weihe) ; caule decumbente anguloso sparsim pi- 
loso setoso, aculeis multis inzequalibus rectis, foliis quinatis opacis 
subtus pallidis mollibus nitidis sericeis, foliolo terminali cordato- 
ovato acuminato undulato, infimis intermediis incumbentibus, pani- 
culze inferne foliose setose ramis corymbosis, 
R. fusco-ater, Rub. Germ. 72. t. 26. 
R. Radula (Lindl.), Leight. ! 
Barren stem with numerous rather unequal moderately large 
prickles, and more or less numerous unequal smaller ones con- 
necting them with the small aciculi and the sete. Petioles with 
strong declining or deflexed prickles, lower leaflets (in our plant) 
nearly or quite sessile, terminal leaflet rather broad at the base, 
all pale green beneath. Panicle clothed with numerous short 
hairs and sete and long and strong prickles. Calyx patent or 
loosely reflexed from the fruit, 
3. candicans; caulis petiolorumque aculeis paucioribus pilis numero- 
sioribus, foliis subtus albis, foliolo terminali rotunde obovato, in- 
fimis petiolatis, panicula hirsuta. | 
R. Radula, Lees MSS. ! a 
y. echinatus ; caulis petiolorumque aculeis multis, foliis concoloribus 
subtus duris rigide pilosis, foliolo terminali obovato, infimis petio- 
latis, panicule pilis longis setis aciculisque longioribus aculeis 
crebris minimis tenuibus. 
R. echinatus, Lindl.! Syn. ed. 1.94; Leight.! Fl. Shrop. 235. not 
Bab. 
Isle of Wight and Dorset, Dr. Bell Salter ; Shropshire ; Leices- 
tershire, Rev. A. Bloram. {. Little Malvern, Worcestershire, 
Mr. E. Lees. y. Almond Park, Salop. July and August. 
Obs. 1. I have received from my friend the Rev. W. H. Cole- 
man a plant gathered in Mangrove Lane, Hertford, which appears 
to be referable to the type of this species. Its leaves are almost 
exactly cordate and cuspidate, glabrous above, very finely tomen- 
tose beneath ; the petioles have fewer prickles. The barren shoot 
has scarcely any hairs, few sete, very few and short aciculi; its 
prickles are rather numerous and mostly large and equal, but 
there are a few very unequal and smaller. Another plant sent 
to me by Mr. F. Adamson, who states that it is “ not uncommon 
near Gouroch ” in Renfrewshire, has fewer large prickles on its 
* Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Feb, 12, 1846. 
