GERMAN SIDE-LIGHTS ON SOME BRITISH RUBI ae 
Handbook, is referred as a race to uncinatus. R. preruptorum Bab. is 
said to “‘ resemble becinggicn but does not belong to Boulay’s Vosges 
plant of the same name, w is a form of the R. Koehleri-series.” 
Objection is further taken “y cs name itself, as being too much like 
the Indian R. Griffithi; “but this pent will have been already 
described i 2 France under some other n 
R. anetosaxonicus Gelert (1888) is | defiaitaly identified. with 
R. apiculatus Wh. & N. (1825),.and has allotted to it no less than 
five soins (besides several races); of these R. omen Ms te 
Mull. is British, and possibly R. erubescens Wirtg. also. Such an 
eawialdy fount of forms is somewhat Seaidable 
= jBapius Focke (1877). ‘\ dingland t-—Dried. plants appear to 
“In Handb. Br. Rubi, ah uystrix Wh. & N. is treated _ a var. a 
fi. rosaceus; here it is given as a valid species, with the remark: 
ed England forms aes belong to this occur st freely; a 
closely related form, R. infoecundus [sic] Rogers . . . is well-mar 7 
there and i in N. France, but true R. hystria is variable in its cha- 
actors. R. adornatus P. J, Mill., regarded as a subsp. of hystria, 
stated to be eat ee to Central Europe ; sobe we pi to have the 
typical plant in W. Ireland, a slightly aavernees § oe being not un- 
mon and saad constant in England and 
Sa ‘PLINTH us Geney. is placed as a red- aa variation of 
R. Reuteri Mae which is itself ranked as one of the chief types 
(Hau pt-typen) of R. Koehleri; ; R. hostilis Mill. & Wirtg.—not here 
mentioned as British, though Dr. Focke has so named some of our 
plants—being reckoned among half a dozen Koehleri-races which 
** require further study.” R. preruptorum Boulay is said to resemble 
hostilis, ‘‘ but seems to be a sterile hybrid.’ Another ally or subsp. 
of Koehleri is R. apricus Wimm. (1857); ‘I have seen dried speci- 
mens from ae Senta which _ agree with R. apricus.” 
R. p s Gremli (1870) is termed “a series of forms not 
yet sailisiendy. iviaicated, which manifest falls into a number of 
geographically separated subspecies. The which I know best is 
the very marked subspecies R. Marshalli er with a very dense 
clothing of hair and very long needle-like prickles; it is not yet found 
within our area.”’ R. pilocar pus has “ ‘drupelets with long hairs.” 
Wh. & N. 1825) ‘aud with R. rhenanus P. J. 1858), brome is 
classed among the Glandulosi; while "R. scion A. Ley 
ited as a synonym of R. humifusus Wh At es sawvi- 
colus P. ke w het ae ota forms 0 
is 
micro-species is at present fipathelanitly examined, so that its 
limitation remains uncertain. Boulay omits it altogether; Rogers 
only includes it doubtfully ; while Genevier ascribes to it a large 
distribution in Auvergne a: nd the Pyrenees. Perhaps only a local 
variation of R. humifusus,”’ R. viridis Kalt., though likewise classed 
_48 a micro-sp. under humifusus, is said to be “a “collective species, 
embracing the forms which stand eigen R. hirtus and R. macro- — 
phyllus.” Tn addition to R. incultus Wirtg., R. flaccidifolius P. J. 
