KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 5 
A distinct-looking eens ; when fresh appearing just inter- 
mediate between Rf. ‘longi yrsiger and R. viridis, and frequently 
growing with the pat see not observed by me with the 
latter. 
77. BR. saxicotus P. J. Muell.—*St. angular, nearly glabrous. 
L. mostly 5-nate. Lts. with short soft hairs beneath, shining, espe- 
cially on the nerves; term. broadly ovate, pol ointed. Inflorescence 
often elongated, lax ; branches often with aggregated ped., densely 
patent-hairy, furnished vith crowded glands, bristles and acicles. 
Sep. patent in fr. Pet. narrow, white.” he foregoing is a 
translation of Dr. Focke’s recently pobtialsed description of this 
species. Speaking of its distribution in Germany, he adds, ‘‘ The 
i i e; but simi 
hin 
hirtus or Koehleri, are very common.” Plants from Oxf., Suss. and 
Monm. that he has thus named = me have brownish polished st., 
with very unequal broad-based prickles and acicles and com- 
veratively few stalked glands, l. greyish green beneath, remarkably 
hairy pan.-rachis with most of the unequal-stalked glands hidden in the 
hair, the pan. branches crowded above into a rather narrow; 
rounded, cylindrical top, with sig distant, few-flowered branches 
ona 
There is so much differe a opinion amongst us in England as 
to the distinctive ia tree rat the three next ‘‘ species,” that it 
seems desirable for me in their case to give a translation of 
- Dr. Focke’s. BOS 
ysl He pt W. & N.?, R. dentatus Blox. ‘‘ (R. glandulosus 
and R. hybridus inion. mult.).--St. only indistinctly angled near 
the top, glaucous, sparse ely hairy, densely clad wit unequal weak 
prickles, glandular bristles and stalked glands. L. 3-nate. Lis. 
almost equal in size, light green, rather evenly and finely serrate, green 
and hairy on both sides ; term, elliptic, with a lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate mucronate point. Inflorescence short; the lower branch- 
lets erect-patent, usually 3-flo wered; the upper straggling, 1- 
flowered; rachides and ped. hairy, with fine acicles, red. with 
numerous unequal- sabato glands and glandular bristles. Sep. em- 
bracing the young fr. alter flowering. Pet. narrow, spathulate, a. 
Stam - fully as ssdrte as the styles. Drupelets glabrous. Fr. small, 
sromati é." “Tn very few brai mble had Dr. ie ocke regia ‘is the form 
in springy gr und.” 
rof. Babington’ s fuller description in Brit. Rubi, down to the 
middle of p. 248, agrees admirably with this; as both do with 
Welsh specimens of mine, which Dr. Focke refers here as ‘‘ quite 
