840 KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 



linear-lanceolate. Pan. often long and leafy to near the rather broad 

 truncate top, fairly open ; branches longish, but few-flowered, nearly 

 patent ; rachis and ped. very strongly armed and clothed like st. Sep. 

 ovate-attenuate, very aciculate and glandular, greenish, usually 

 strongly reflexed, though sometimes ultimately patent on the shortly 

 stalked term. fl. Pet. oval, usually white. Stam. exceeding styles. 

 Hedges, &c. 



This, the typical plant, is widely bat locally distributed. Not 

 always easily distinguished from strong hystrix forms; but ordinarily 

 more prickly, paler, and with more open pan., besides having 

 reflexed sep. and white pet. 



The following are our chief vars. : — 



b. B. pallidus Bab. — St. more angular, and with considerably 

 more difference between the large and smaller prickles. Lts. with 



long soft hairs on the veins and usually somewhat felted beneath, ivith 



chief 



fl 



Pan. much narrower and 



Very different from the type, and (I should say) well marked, 

 though I cannot distinguish it from the plants usually named 

 saxicolus by Prof. Babington, nor from some of those which he has 

 labelled melanoxylon. Woods and thickets through a great part of 

 Engl, (and up to over 1000 ft. above the sea at Buxton), though, so 

 far as I have been able to trace it, rarely reaching the southern 

 counties. 



c. jR. plinthostylus (Genev.), Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 22. — St. 

 angular, striate. Lts. conspicuously narrowed below to the entire base ; 



often gradually attenuate at both ends, especially on pan., more 

 sharply toothed, paler and very softly hairy beneath. Stip. filiform. 

 Cal. patent or only very loosely reflexed. Pet. and styles pinkish. 

 Not differing ereatlv from tha tvne. ~ ' «----— — 



Cornw. 



Kirkcudbright?, Dors., E. 



d. hirsutus. — St. more angular, deeply striate or subsulcate, hirsute; 

 with extraordinary variation in the length of the prickles, the longest 



usually quite patent and much compressed. L. smaller and more 

 frequently 3-5-nate and more conspicuously pedate, somewhat lobate 



dentate and thickly softly hairy beneath. Pan. elongate, in great part 



ultra axillary and much narrowed above, but with long ascending 



branches below ; clothed and armed like the st. Sep. only loosely 

 reflexed from fr. Pet. pink. Surr. and neighbouring counties ; 

 locally abundant. Prof. Babington and Dr. Pocke agree with me 

 in placing this strongly marked form (not, I think, previously 

 described) under Koehleri. 



73. R. badius Focke? " R. fusco-ater Weihe?" Bab. Jouni, 

 Bot. 1886, p. 231.— As I do not understand this plant (or plants ?), 

 I quote here the description from Bab. Man. ed. 8, p. 117:—" St. 

 arcuate-prostrate, angular, hairy ; prickles unequal, slightly declining 

 from a very large compressed base ; set® and strong unequal aciculi 

 many ; Its. irregularly or rather doubly dentate even above, green and 

 hairy beneath ; term. It. broadly cordate, ovate-acuminate or sub- 

 cuspidate; has. Its. stalked, imbricate; pan. long, subpyramidal, leafy 

 below, its branches patent corymbose, or the axillary branches 



