34 Mr. C. C. Babington on the British Rubi. 



white with silky pubescence. Branches of the panicle ascending 

 and together with the summit of the rachis pilose and tomentose. 

 Prickles large from a broad compressed base, numerous; the 

 upper ones slender nearly straight and declining. Sepals densely 

 tomentose hairy and white on both surfaces ; strongly reflexed 

 from the black fruit. 



Shawbury Heath and other places in Shropshire, Rev. W. A. 

 Leighton. Great Cowleigh Park near Malvern, Rev. A. Bloxam. 

 The Torrents near Dolgelly ; and the Wrekin, Salop, Mr. Lees. 

 Glen Falloch and Loch Eil in Scotland ; and Llanberis in North 

 Wales. 



Obs. 1 . A form of this species is sometimes found with more 

 slender nearly straight and declining prickles, leaves pubescent 

 not tomentose beneath, panicle thyrsoid with simple or few 

 flowered branches, and fewer smaller and more slender prickles. 

 This is possibly the result of shade. 



Obs. 2. This plant is allied to R. cordifolius, but in that spe- 

 cies the leaves are flat and less coarsely serrate, the barren stems 

 always arching and the prickles on the panicle and flowering 

 shoot all straight and declining. It is often very like R. plicatus, 

 but the panicle of that plant wants the under coating of tomen- 

 tum, its barren stems have slender prickles, the scales at the base 

 of the flowering shoot are fuscous ; and, as well-observed by my 

 friend Mr. Leighton, the sepals of jR. plicatus are " scatteredly 

 hairy on the outside, chiefly at the base and apex, the white 

 tomentum with which the inside is entirely lined forming only a 

 narrow white line on the margins." R. nitidus also resembles 

 R. affinis, but is distinguished by its coarsely and doubly serrated 

 leaves and the patent or divaricate branches of its panicle. 



Obs. 3. Some difficulty attends the determination of the plant 

 described as R. affinis by Mr. Lees. A specimen from Great 

 Cowleigh, so named by him for the Rev. A. Bloxam to whom I am 

 indebted for it ; one from the Wrekin, and another from near 

 Dolgelly, both named R. vulgaris, for which my thanks are due to 

 Mr. Lees himself, are R. affinis. A specimen received from 

 Mr. Lees as R. affinis and gathered between Dolgelly and Traws- 

 fynydd, North Wales, seems to be a state of R. macrophyllus. 

 When characterizing R. affinis for Steele's Handbook, he placed 

 it amongst the species with stems " arching and rooting at the 

 extremity," but my observations lead me to consider that the 

 suberect section is its true place. 



8. R. cory lif olius (Sm. !); caule decurvato vel procumbente tere- 

 tiusculo glabro, aculeis subulatis rectis tenuibus, foliis quinatis 

 subtus mollibus pallidioribus marginera versus undulatis planis vel 

 decurvatis, foliolo terminali rotundato-ovato cordatove, infimis 

 subsessilibus intermediis incumbentibus , panicula subcorymbosa, se- 



