FRENCH AND GERMAN VIEWS OF BRITISH RUBI 199 
Almost simultaneously with this notice of Dr. Focke’s recent 
work has come to our knowledge a French statement of views of 
British een oe in some Observations sur Set of British Rubi 
(Angers, 1904), by Prof. H. Sudre, who is engaged in issuing a 
totheca europea of considerable RETR: the nasal fascicle 
of whieh (Nos. 51-100) reached u t long set Though we 
Focke ee called in questio 
The order of the species has discussed is that of the Handbook 
of British Rubi. 
R. Rocersn Linton, now referred to R. ammobius Focke. Pre- 
viously to 1894 Dr. Focke referred this plant to R. opacus Focke ; 
on Devon specimens he commented, ‘A curious form, intermediate 
between R. Later nitidus, and opacus”’; and in 1895 he wrote 
that he had seen no R. ammobius Host Britain, though this name 
i h 
related in Mr. Marshall's paper, we would say first that the n 
porate is a considerable expansion of that in the Synopsis R. Gs : 
at characters now a re precisely those which help 
d form 
or even sulcate stem, dark purplish in exposure, glandular, and 
very prickly; pricklés much on curved, less equal, and not all 
confined to the angles; leaflets not imbricate when mature, evenly 
y remark 
ably elongate, narrower in proportion than in R. plicatus, and with 
an attenuate tip. Panicle weaker (like R. fissus), with shorter, 
es. 
nfortunately we have never seen R. ammobius, having asked 
for Seer in vain. M. Budre my: tg bea resemblance 
Ww 
to suppose. For the present, at all e ee it seems best to leav 
R. nemistemon. We fo Lidl ed Dr. Focke in a our 
British plant as R. hemistemon "P. J. Mueil., the name which he 
gave us for specimens from Surrey and Caithness, eabaial to 
him. With his conan: if not by his advice, our plant was ten 
years ago placed — R., plicatus as var. hemistemon P. J. Muell. 
(Journ. Bot. 1895, 47, and Lond. Cat. ed. 9), an arrangement re- 
produced in the Hanab, Brit. Rubi. ‘Is there any need to change 
