GERMAN SIDE-LIGHTS ON SOME BRITISH RUBI 75 
Our British R. eryrartnus, the identity of which with Gene- 
vier’s plant Dr. Focke inclines to doubt, is now named R. argenteus 
Wh. &N.; while R. Lindleianus (spelt “ Lindleyanus”) is considered 
to be a race of R. vulgaris Wh. & N. 
Of ve subspecies here grouped under R. TayrsorpEvs 
a ‘species collectiva,” R. candicans Whe. (doubtfully) and R 
Jragrans Fo given as English, but not R. thyrsanthus Focke 
R. macroacantnos Wh. & N. (1825), classed as a subsp. or near 
ally of R. bifrons Vest, has two forms assigned to it: a. genuinus 
Focke, from one station near Minden, and pz. sentus Focke, from 
Jumet, in Belgium. The latter variety [Abart], here described 
(1902) for the first time, has been seen by the author from several 
English stations. For particulars the work itself should be con- 
ped ; my own very imperfect knowledge of the genus is entirely 
at fault. 
and it would surely have been better to keep up the name argentatus, 
so long as any doubt remained about the application of the name 
R. Banningii Focke (1877) is a micro-species allied to R. hedy- 
carpus; ‘*I have seen dried specimens from Norfolk, in England, 
which I could not separate from dried R. Banningii.”” ; 
R. nuompirotius Whe., treated as a subsp. of villicaulis in Handb. 
Br. Rubi, p. 86, is allowed full specific rank in the present treatise; 
while R. leucandrus Focke is needlessly renamed R. leucander. 
R. panicus Focke (written, more germanico, with a capital D), 
which Rogers makes a var. of A. hirtifolius, is here assigned as a 
bsp. to R. macrophyllus. 
_R. nespertus Rogers “ has somewhat broadly and more coarsely 
toothed leaflets, but is very like R. myrice.” 
_R. Rt subsp. Leyanus Rogers receives the new name of 
subsp. Augustint Focke, as being too near in form to R. Leyt (here 
altered to “ Leyii”) Focke; this seems to me unnecessary. 
R. Micays once more changes its name (being the plant of 
Questier, but “apparently not of Gren. & Godr.”) in favour of 
R. hypoleucos Lef. & Mill. (1859). R. adscitus Geney. was published 
in 1860, “ 
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