22 SUPPLEMENT TO NOTES ON RUBI. 
Focke! Synop. 257. — Stem (its direction unknown to me) 
angular, with scattered hairs or subglabrous. Prickles saiiiel 
unequal, declining or subfalcate. Asicali ait sete unequal, more 
or less abundant. Leaves 5-8-nate, coarsely and doubly serrate, 
ath; 
petiole not channelled and, as well as the midrib, beneath with 
many hooked prickles, sbi vulate, setose; terminal leaflet broadly 
obovate,slightly cordate below, cuspidate (“a acuminate”), 2-3 times 
the length of its pedicel; basal leaflets shortly stalked, not 
imbricate. Panicle short, rounded at the end, its prickles 
many long slender unequal, declining, its aciculi and in few 
externally. Sepals ovate-attenuate, slightly acic rss and setose. 
Petals pinkish or white, oval, distant. Stamens red-bas 
. ie he the pinkish (««verdatres,” Gen.) styles. Socay s arpe els 
pilose Bec is a broad flat space between the stamens and 
alae’ ger 
Abundant on Puddleston Heath, and between Hampisham and 
Evershot, a July, Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. These places are 
many miles part. 
is 2 t will be seen to be closely allied to R. Kehleri, 
ry _— less prickly. 
; Bi THosTyLUs Geney. — Stem prostrate, angular, with 
rie wees unequal slightly decline prickles; aciculi and sete 
mostly short, and, as well as the prickles, enlarged and compressed 
at their base ; leaflets unequally and rather mares serrate, green, 
and hairy only on the veins beneath ; terminal leaflet obovate 
acuminate, narrowed below; basal leaflets Saved? not imbricate, 
shortly stalked; panicle short, few-flowered, with a short rer 
peduncle, its prickles many, slender, straight, horizontal, its aciculi, 
sete, and hairs many; sepals ovate-lanceolate, leaf- puisited, 
aciculate and setose, pecedtair: ; petals pinkish white, oblong- 
obovate, clawed; stamens white, exceeding the pinkish styles; 
young carpels pilose. 
fi. plinthostylus Genev. Monog. ed. 1, 108 (1869); ed. 2, 99.— 
Stem ‘‘ prostrate,” not furrowed. Prick es many, very unequal, 
slightly declining, very much enlarged at their base, becomin, 
nelled, with strong hooked prickles. Stipules filiform. Terminal 
leaflet three times as long as its stalk, obovate, acuminate, slightly 
narrowed below ; basal leaflets lanceolate, narrowed a t bot h ends, 
shortly stalked, not imbricate. Panicle short, few- Saree. with a 
ort terminal peduncle; prickles long, straight, slender, patent or 
ee hairy and setose; ultra-axillary branches often 1-flowered. 
Leaves 3-nate; terminal leaflet lanceolate, gradually narrowed 
ace Sepals ovate-attenuate, green, with few aciculi and sete 
patent. Petals oblong, clawed, pinkish or nearly white, distinct. 
Sekers white, exceeding the pinkish styles. Young carpels pilose. 
Minster Valley, K. Cornwall, June, Rev. W. Moyle Roger. 
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