64 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
but not felted, coarsely, doubly or irregularly crenate-serrate, the 
teeth wide and s sharply cuspidate. Terminal leaflet subrotund or 
broadly obovate-oval, with ap cuspidate- income point, cordate, 
about three times as long as its petiolule; lateral narrower and 
rather smaller, basal considerably smaller and shortly seca 
Panicle long, cylindrical-pyramidal, lax, axillary branches three 
six, the lowest ascending at an acute angle, with several act 
mosely-disposed flowers, the upper successively more patent, with 
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anaes the upper and those “ branche — nger ; more slender 
and more declining. Sepals patent or loosely r oflexed throughout, 
greenish or greyish felted, ents not iia with rather short 
cuspidate points. Petals oval, quite white. Stamens with white 
filaments, longer than green styles 
is species grows in considerable abundance in sandy (new 
red sandstone) field and roadside hedges west of Harthill, oie about 
ton Lane, Cheshire, the two ‘stations being abou mile 
apart. It does not, like several other Rubi, extend to the heels 
hill-sides. Mr. Rogers first thought it to be R. latifolius Bab., but 
now agrees that it presents considerable specific differences from 
that species, as follows :—R. castrensis has a more hai ry stem, with 
more se ebexpound, much more ere armed, and is qui 
dular, even on bracts. The long hairs on the sepals of edhe eco 
J or quite wanting on those of castrensis. 
also "Spon resemblance in dried specimens 
to R. _earpiniflins W .& N., from whi ch it differs in its less highly 
patent. Its panicle, also, is longer and narrower, with more 
patent upper branches, siti less strongly armed, ‘iad its sepals 
more TIS or even sce a rica "e 
: dl double, the teeth 
broader and less finel ointed, ever “patent ; 
terminal leaflet nearly regularly oval, not decidedly narrower below, 
the base usually cordate, or sometimes subeordate. Panicle broad, 
truncate and cylindrical, or, more rarely, subpyramidal, with 
considerable ultraxiliary por re a lower na a ea more patent 
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