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refer to the plants themselves instead of to the figures, and have 
before us several specimens of each species. In the Rubus: fas- 
tigiatus of that work, any botanist would say there are several 
panicles, and in R. pubescens it would be acknowledged as a 
single leafy panicle. We cannot, I am afraid, rely upon it as an 
absolute character ; but the greater or less tendency of the flower- 
ing shoot to throw out branches from its lower parts, and the 
greater or less tendency to produce leaves among the flowers, may 
be of use sometimes in determining species. 
I feel rather uncertain whether we can go beyond these points 
in employing the disposition of the panicle. On looking through 
the ‘ Rubi Germanici’ we feel inclined to carry it farther, but the 
subject is not taken up by any British Batologist, and I doubt if 
it could be done to advantage: for instance, in R. carpinifolius | 
it is said of the panicle, “ desinit sursum pedunculis simplicibus,” 
and this is confirmed and farther explained by the plate, where 
the panicle ends in what is very strictly araceme. But though 
most of our botanists have a plant they call R. carpinifolius, I have 
seen no British specimens which decidedly exhibit this character, 
and it is the more suspicious since we find an approach to it in 
the not well developed panicle of several species. The form of the 
panicle has an additional value from its connection with the mode 
of growth, and we may determine with some confidence whether 
the plant is sub-erect or merely assurgent by the disposition of 
the inflorescence. 
There are some species which have a panicle, but not forming 
knots. This seems to be véry much the case with R. tomentosus, 
and we find it more or less perfectly marked among the Cesit. 
Of its value as a specific character I do not venture to pro- 
nounce. 
(To be continued.) 
Botanical Tour in the Highlands of Perthshire ; from Dunblane 
to Doune, Callander, the Trosachs, Loch Katrine, Port Men- 
teith, etc. (Continued from page 424.) 
On the 4th of July, at six o’clock in the morning, our pedes- 
trian tour actually commenced. A Gillie-truish-an-arnish (An- 
glicé, a baggage-carrier) was procured for us by our obliging host 
of the Dunblane Arms, a most comfortable house, by the way, 
