150 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF RUBI IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
By tue Rev. W. Movie Rocers, F.L.S. 
So much steady work has been done lately in tracing the distri- 
bution of Rubi in most parts of Great Britain, that the time seems 
come when we may profitably examine and to some extent tabulate 
the results achieved. For the present it seems best not to include 
Ireland and the Channel Islands in the review. R. ideus may also 
be ee out of general consideration, as, though it has long been 
wn to occur in all the British vice-counties except two (West 
Gorrisrali and Pembroke, from neither of which is it likely to be 
ake it seems impossible to ascertain now how often its presence 
e due either to the immediate neighbourhood of gardens or 
25S pserean ton of birds. 
Probably nearly three- poe of the 112 Watsonian vice-counties 
have now been fairly well explored by batologists. In some of them 
the number of the forms Sane is not likely to be greatly ineraaae 
by further research. But in a few only, and those all in the south 
and middle of England and Wades can the bramble flora be said to 
have been at all exhaustively ascertained. 
On the other hand, there are no less than 83 vice- counties which 
Edinburgh ie Galahad Sie eebiale cet 
Peebles De dees eb ik 
Haddington ............ SPOLNAMS Ube, wiecisd 
ney } open Wraiees 3... satccisdcs 
ri als SRE Fife & Kinross ......... 8 each 
OEDUNIR 6 isi eK... S. Aberdeen ............ 
pa ote hasan weiss: } 4 each Elgin 
lkirk N. Eb = saasiceciiile 
S. Ebudes SON Pobildee a. 
Caithness 5. Kirkeudbright Licaboess 
Sc Lamsoln 2:6. basic. LAM POW 35 i. 6. odes 
Isle of Man ............ | Ginamene pv ask bedi 
anar 6 each N. Aberdeen 9 each. 
Porfar -.:;... gg oe 
Seen ud We thle divs ccs 
EWIOR i .ooie ois sacs Teach. E. Sutherland Son tieeds 
Mid Ebudes ............ :} 
Of these 88 vice-counties in Great Britain with less than 10 dis- 
tinct Rubi (other than ideus) known: for each, 27, it will be seen, 
Rubi each is but 14. These 14 vice-counties average not quite 
19 Samy each, though 5 of them have 20 or more, and 2 as many 
is _The present record for these 14 best- worked Scottish vice-counties 
