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I may take this pivieiperct-< to state that our R. thyrsoideus 
from Cornwall eigen to be exactly the subordinate species named 
oe vr ayrans ctacmg ich I aes now before me through the kind- 
of Dr. Foc ke (ub. Select. i unless the colour of the flower 
is different in the two brambles. I have described the petals as 
have not seen the livin 
plant. The colour of the petals seems to vary amongst the plants 
included under R. thyrsoideus by Focke; but he states that those 
f R. fragrans are purple. The Tam erton Folliott plant does not 
accord with either of the other forms included by Focke under his 
aggregate KR. thyrsoideus 
Areschoug r emarks, cones our R. Leesii (p. 169), that it 
‘‘ srows in more places in our country than in any other European 
country, although everywhere it is very scanty, and es has 
already disappeared from several localities.” It would appear 
Si aseiage to be sterile there, e a is in Britain, ps I believe in 
row limits each species may vary so as to produce tolerably 
permanent resting which those botanists who go by the somewhat 
opprobrious name of ‘‘splitters” describe as gee is, I believe, 
e case. But that the pedigrees worked out by Areschoug for 
many of the plants will hold good, I am far from being able to 
eat many ech the deductions BA tec containe 
n 
the grouping of the segregate forms into aggregate ones. 
There is another apparently very valuable paper before me: it 
is the ‘Danmarks og Slesvigs Ru in i As K. Fridericksen and O. 
Gelert. It would be especially useful if . was not written in 
Danish, being illustrated almost teens t by the very beautiful 
specimens contained in the ‘ Rubi exsiccati Danie et Slesvigie’ of 
the same authors. As far as 1 can understand them the remarks 
contained in this sana mers great interest. Alas! they are 
almost unintelligible to 
I may take this sacaatiedle to state that Focke oer shown that 
Mr, Linton’s R. letus must again change its name. AR. letus las 
been already used, as Focke Se ovine Mr. Linton, by Progel in 
an 
. The description of it Mace the name sf R. lucens, 
preoccupied name (it having been used for an Indian plant), will be 
found on p. 82 of this volume of the Journal of Botany. 
