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KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 



into lanceolate or linear bracts ; its prickles unequal, slender, 

 declining from long bases ; its subeqnal acicles, stalked glands and 

 patent hairs many. Sep. ovate-attenuate, reflexed. Pet. rather 

 small, obovate. Stam. (becoming pink) about equal to the styles. 

 Bushy places (Norf., Heref., Glost., Monm., Hants, Cornw.^. 



Dr. Focke speaks of this as "near R. fuscus W. & N. and R 

 mutabilis Gene v."; but it maybe readily distinguished from both 

 by the very remarkable 1. (which seem to me literally unique), and 

 further, from fuscus by the glabrous or subglabrous st., which, 

 together with the reflexed sep. , also separates it completely from 

 R. adornatus, which in pan. it nearly approaches. This and the 

 next two or three " species " seem our connecting-links between 

 the .KADunas and the Koehlekiani. 



67. E. mutabilis Genev. Essai, pp. 106-108; Journ. Bot. 1871, 

 pp. 308-370; 1886, p. 232 ; 1887, p. 144 ; Ft. Pl ym . pp . i 25 , 126. 

 — bt. much as in the last, but hardly sulcate, and with still smaller 

 acicles or very small tubercular- based prickles, and usually very few 

 stalked glands on the striate faces, often glaucous; the large 

 prickles still more unequal, but chiefly confined to the angle's 

 mostly patent or subpatent from a much dilated compressed base' 

 L. 5-nate ; in shape recalling those of R. pallidus W. & N., but 

 thicker. Lts. rugose above, much paler and very hairy beneath, 

 and often felted, especially when young, unevenly and doubly 



crenate-dentate or lobate -dentate, narrow; term, ovate-acuminate or 

 Obovate-acuminate, tapering very gradually to the long point, cordate 

 or subcordate. Paji. long, lax, narrowly pyramidal or cylindrical, 



leaty below, with the lower branches distant ascending, and the 

 topmost ones crowded into a rather broad rounded top ; its rachis 



sulcate, close-felted, very prickly aciculate and glandular ; the larger 



prickles strong, many. Sep. ovate, often long-pointed, white-felted 

 ana aciculate, reflexed. Pet. long, narrow. Stam. white, exceeding 

 greenish styles. Yorks., Surrey?, Dev. 



I have thought it best to make this description from our well- 

 imown strongly marked Dev. plant, though Genevier labelled a 

 specimen m his herbarium from one of the localities (Tamerton 



WiZ >' r^TT ™''' The Snrrev P lant ( fairl Y abundant at 

 Witley and Tilford) seems hardly separable from this, though in 



SI feSpe ? S ? h °- . recallin g R - echinatus, especially in the more 

 mn£? "*., ?? tltl0n °{ the L Its stron 2 Pickles are longer and 

 hZlf: 7i 6d than m 1 the Dev ' P lant ' its st - considerably more 

 trnnLw,V S ! gre ? ng bet , ter with Gene ™r's description), and its 



braS; fn m H nCa l Pan ' n r ° ader ' With P atenfc or even divaricate 

 St n.i ? nltra-axillaty part. I have not seen the Yorks. 



with these two* hmg ^ ° ther C0UntieS that l should n ™ P ut 



salcS; W^ L( T in V* 3 ' - St an = aular ' wifch striate or slightly 

 S tl 8 ' Rf 2f T g , laUC0US ' with many une <l ual acicles, stalked 

 Sua au ill Jf"™' f ricMes some ^*t scattered and un- 

 falca to L Zt 7 mth /'' r?' sub P atent °* declining, with a few 



Us toad ™ ™ d ' L l 5 f " nate ' chiefl y 5-nate-pedare, convex. 

 Us. btoad, rugose, wavy at edge, dull areen ahn™ ^,™f TO i lfl „ 



