350 24. ROSACEA. 



Babingtom marks it only as a suspected settler. Smith re- 

 ports it " certaiuly wild " in Hertfordshire ; but it would 

 seem to be very local in that county, for the Authors of the 

 ' Report ' print the name in italics as that of a species 

 wliich they have not met with, nor yet had sent to them by 

 any other botanist. Mr. Babington says, " Woods in the 

 south ; " while the Flora of Yorkshire has it, " in Teesdale, 

 frequent;" and Sir W. C. Trevelyan informs us that it is 

 " not unfrequent about Wallington ; " though rarely fruiting 

 there. It would thus seem to have become wild both in 

 the south and in the north of England, in low and in 

 elevated places. 



RUBUS ARCTICUS, Llmi. 



Area [10**** 15 16]. 



Incognit. Supposed to have been foi-merly found in the 

 Isle of Mull, and on Ben y Gloe, in Perthsliire ; but gene- 

 rally given up as a British species, mitil the Botanical So- 

 ciety of Edmburgh reported the discovery of it, " near the 

 head of Glen Tilt, by Mr. J. Robertson, Gardener, Kin- 

 fauns." Subsequently it was again reported, that "the 

 veiy imperfect state of the fragment of a specimen exhi- 

 bited, left great doubt whether the discovery ought yet to 

 be fully relied on." Several years ago, a specimen of the 

 very plant, beyond all doubt, was sent to me as having 

 been gathered on a moor in Yorkshu-e ; but I could neither 

 obtain nor hear of any second specimen, and felt no doubt 

 respecting the origin of that one specimen from a botanic 

 garden in another county. 



