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water Ranunculus under circumstances which would lead to its 
confusion with a terrestrial species. 
Prof. Balfour has an interesting postscript containing a corre- 
spondence between Dr. Neill and George Don the younger, which 
adds to the information contained in Mr. Druce’s memoir. “In 
TWO NEW RUBI. 
By A. H. Wottey-Dop. 
tion for the past three years at least, during which I have received 
Ww k n 
should never have attempted the task of adding to so critical a group 
of species as the fruticose Rubi. 
Rubus castrensis, sp.nov. Stem arching-prostrate, angular, 
striate, and more or less furrowed, thinly hairy, with scattered 
inconspicuous sessile and subsessile glands, o/ive-green, Or reddish 
in full exposure. Prickles numerous, patent or declining, moderately 
strong, not quite equal nor quite confined to angles. Leaves on 
rather short petioles, strongly pedate, imbricate, olive-green. Leaflets 
all broad and rather large, hairy above, more densely so beneath 
