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bristles and stalked glands, and many long prickles. Sep. patent 

 after flowering. PL pink." 



This name has been given on the best authority to what appear 

 to me such very different British plants that I have thought it best 

 not to attempt a description of my own. So I give instead the 

 above translation (for which I am indebted to the Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall) of the one lately published by Dr. Focke in a German 

 Flora. I have hardly materials for forming an opinion as to which 

 of our northern plants (Derb., Staffs., Yorks.) this description best 

 fits. The Dors, and Hants bramble described under this name in 

 Joum. Bot. 1887, 21, is that which Focke has now named melano- 

 dermis for us (Joum. Bot. 1890, 133). 



46. E. Anglosaxonicus Gelert, Joum. Bot. 1890, 132 & 166. 

 St. subglabrous, angular and often silicate, with many scattered short 

 stout-based acicles and very few shortly-stalked glands, dark purple. 

 Prickles strong, subequal, declining from large dilated compressed 

 base, almost wholly confined to angles. L. often very large, mostly 

 5-nate-pedate. Lts. thick and coriaceous, grey- or greenish-felted 

 beneath, coarsely and somewhat doubly dentate-serrate ; term, 

 regularly oval or elliptic, with rather short point and emarginate 

 base ; interm. very similar, and often nearly as large. Pan. usually 

 rather short and broad, with strongly ascending few -flowered branches, 

 and several simple floral 1. above ; ped. felted, and with rachis very 

 glandular and aciculate. Sep. subpatent after pet. fall, often becoming 

 loosely reflexed later. Pet. pinkish or white. Hedges, &c. 



An exceedingly well-marked plant as here described, and as 

 pretty widely distributed in Engl. ; but there seem several varieties, 

 of which the two following at least are locally abundant, and 

 remarkably constant in character. 



b. radidoides. — Prickles more numerous and more unequal, especially 

 on pan. Lts. with sharper and more compound serrations ; term, obovate 

 or ovate, unequal-sided. Pan. with long cylindrical ultra-axillary top. 



Whole plant far more prickly and aciculate, though not more 

 glandular. Woods, &c. (Radn., Heref., Glost., Somers., Dors.). 

 Babington and Focke agree with me in referring this to It. Anglo- 

 saxonicus ; but they are not responsible for giving it varietal rank 

 and name. 



c. setulosas. — Considerably more prickly than var. b., hairier and 



Prickles 



rather more scattered and unequal, the largest with remarkably com- 

 pressed bases, and not un frequently falcate/ Lts. conspicuously obtusan- 



gular, obovate, tapering rather gradually to the shortly acuminate 

 point, and narrowing considerably to the base. Pan. laxer below, 

 with more numerous and (at the top) narrower floral 1. Sep. very 

 aciculate and purple, with stalked glands. Heref. (the " R. Koehleri 



I am indebted to Dr. Focke 

 ild come here as " a very 

 glandular and prickly var." In armature it certainly approaches 

 the Koehlesiaxi. 



47. R. infestus Weihe (non Bab.). — St. long, rather high- 



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