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with what Prof. Babingfcon has written more fully and so very 

 clearly in p. 167 of his British Rubi. The stam. exceed the styles 

 in our plants (I do not know how it may be in R. ^ilanoxylon y but 

 they do in the rest), except in li. Boraanus and R. infestus, where 

 they about equal them. 



A. Section Petiolulati. — Bas. Its. conspicuously stalked in 

 summer. 



a. Pan. typically without 1. or foliaceous bracts above : — (43) 



Boraanus ; (44) mucronatus ; (46, b.) Anglosaxonicus var. raduloides. 



b. Pan. with 1. or foliaceous bracts to near the top : — (46) 

 Anglosaxonicus, type and var. setulosus ; (47) infestus. 



[I know too little of (45) melanoxylon to attempt placing it in 

 a. or b. (44, b.) Banninyii appears to belong to b.] 



B. Section Subcorylifolii. — Bas. Its. very shortly stalked in 

 summer, the stalks lengthening a little in the autumn. Growth 

 low; habit of the Corylifolij :— (48) Borreri; (49) Drejeri. 



A. Petiohdati.—B&s. Its. conspicuously stalked in summer. 



43. E. Bor^eanus Genev. Essai Man. pp. 154-156.— Sf. bluntly 

 angular, striate, with many scattered stellate hairs, and rather 

 many shortly-stalked glands, not felted. PrkL unequal ; the largest 

 confined to the angles, declining or slightly falcate from much 

 dilated compressed base ; the rest scattered and mostly small, with 

 large cushion-like bases. L. 5-nate-pedate and 3-nate. Lts. at 

 first rugose and rather hairy above, closely ashy- felted beneath and 

 with many very short shining white hairs, especially on the 

 prominent nerves and midribs, wavy at the edge with compound 

 mucronate teeth ; term, rather long-stalked, broadly obovate- 

 acuminate, or slightly cuspidate-acuminate, with entire or emargi- 

 nate base. Pan. rather short, very lax below, with branches mostly 

 3-flowered, the 2 or 3 axillary ones distant, erect or suberect, having 

 their central fl. long-stalked; leafless and subcylind rival above; the 

 topmost 11. shortly stalked; the raehis grey, with dense felt and 

 villous hairs, often almost unarmed above ; the prickles always J'tir, 

 slender, and strongly declining, passing into acicles, with a few 

 shortly-stalked glands, ^..ovate-acuminate, patent or subpatent 

 when the pet. fall, but apparently mostly reflexed in fr. Pet. and 

 styles red. Stam. white or red, barely equalling or falling short of 

 the styles. Plymouth neighbourhood ; locally common. Exactly 

 the plant so abundantly represented in the Genevier Herbarium, 

 Cambridge. 



When dry, looking a good deal like R. leucostachys, though 



unar 



branches 



of the st. 



44. K. mucronatus Blox. — St. arcuate-prostrate, subterete 

 (often angular in S. Engl.), with some patent hairs, usually a few 

 small acicles, and still fewer shortly- stalked and subsessile glands. 

 Prickles slender, patent or slightly declining, usually few. L. 



5-nate-pedate and 3-nate, the 3-nate gibbous below or deeply cleft, 



