14 TWO NEW BRITISH RUBI. 
lobate in the upper half, with long. acuminate point. Ordinar 
pointing teeth. Petioles with many slender acicles stalked 
glands, few slender declining prickles, and short. hair. Stipu 
short. linear, fringed with stalked s. Panicl , com- 
pound, very lax but with the flowers remarkably aggregated ; lower 
ches racemose-corymbose, interm cymose or pseudo- 
umbellate ; corymbos : 8S Wavy, any slender 
ve. . Rae 
deflexed prickles, stalked glands and patent hairs, especially in the 
upper part; slightly felted, but not grey with felt. Sepals ovate 
cuspidate-acuminate, clothed and coloured like the rachis, dark, 
with pale margins, strongly ascending after the petals fall, Petals 
Habitat.—Woods. Not noticed in hedges, or in the open 
country,  Loealities—Rigg’s Wood, Sellack ; Coldborough Park 
Wood, Yatton; H: ood, Mordiford ; Belmont Woods, Here 
radius of ten or twelve miles: the plant is abundant, and retains 
its characters well in each of them. I have had it under observation 
now for five seasons. 
From the above description it will be seen that this plant 
approaches f, Lintoni Focke, especially in the shape of the leaves, 
and the iba clothing of the rachis. I considered it to be R 
Lintoni whe t found it; and a reference to the Exchange 
Club Reports will show that Prof. Babington partly concurred in 
this opinion. The resem lance, however, is main d 
series of this plant, submitted to Dr. Focke in the autumn 
of 1892, elicited from him the following remarks, which he has 
kindly allowed me to make publie :— 
" yus sent agrees very well indeed with a plant I have 
Besides the difference of colour in 
the petals, I see not the least appreciable difference. I think, there- 
fore, that I know the plant, but I know no name... In my 
ynopsis Rub, Germ., published in 1877, I mentioned it (p. 861) 
under R. Betckei; but as that is a very local and little known form 
which has not been identi i 
will not be advisable to make use of this name,” 
oe e Rev. W, M. Rogers Suggests an affinity in our plant to R, 
tiridis Kalt,; and in this suggestion Dr. Foeke concurs, 
