76 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
“The name R. tevcostacuys has hitherto been an aggregate 
conception, need which in England, besides R. vestitus, R. Godronii 
in particular and the many connecting-links between R. vestitus on 
the one hand, R. rusticanus and other large species on the other, 
d 
: t been 
to a definitely eae species ; so that it cannot replace the 
name of R. vestitus.” doubt a similar “koa could be brought 
against some of our shor accepted es; and I suspect that 
British botanists will adhere to someon ad which has priority. 
Rf. lasioclados Focke is placed as a s subsp. D. under vestitus. 
R. eymnostacnys Geney., treated as a var. of leucostachys in 
Handb. Br. Rubi, is now ccioeine red iy Dr. Focke to be a good 
species (with a subsp. R. ma — sos J. Lange), and placed between 
R. pyramidalis and R. Bore 
R. ozsscurvus Kalt. 845), agin, has full imme rank accorded 
to it, aved is divided into tw ioe aeons The first, R. insericatus 
P.J. Mill. (1858), is identified with R. Newbouldii Bab. (*‘ according 
to specimens from Rogers”). But waspouias is hardly the same as 
what Dr. Focke has named obscurus from England and Ireland—a 
prosen nt wi 
Am .. e “less Nae a forms” allied to R. Menxer Wh. & N. 
—itself divided into five races—is mentioned R. propexus Krider, 
(1887), which “can only fe distinguished from thé English R. mnol- 
lissimus ( as described by Rogers, Journ. Bot. 1894, 45) ) by its numerous 
ands.” From my experience of mollissimus, I should have thought 
it referable to ie a Agpreccaee group; and Mr. Rogers now classes 
it under R, hirtifoli 
R. EcHINATUS Lindley Be is ser displaced by R. discerptus 
P. J. Mill. on the ground of momen seminudum, perhaps 
unnecess ang 
_ Under R. Basinetonn occurs the rest note :—‘ Rogers dis- 
tinguishes R. phyllathyrine aS a separate var a appears to 
me to oss simply a question of local and individual variations.” But 
a plant already recorded in 1900 for ses fie 2 and Welsh vice- 
counties seems hardly open to this objecti 
R. macrostacuys P, J. Miill., nee as a var. of R. fuscus in 
Handb. Br. Rubi, is here treated as a good species HOTT ae Baling 
ocke : 5 
in Britain from Sprowston, Norfolk, and referred + “Som to the 
Bellardiant, being as ty be a es to fi. seaber, and R. fuscus 
Wh. & N. (as a race) to R 
R. unernatus P, J. Mii iL, peo immediately before R. Borreri 
Bell Salt. by Rogers, is now considered by Focke to be a su subsp. of 
it; and R. Grifithianus Rogers, soiatiied by seven pages in the 
