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pointed, with long compressed base, more or less declining, with a 

 few falcate ones intermixed. Strong acicles and pricklets rather 

 few. L. small, almost without exception 5-nate-pedate. Lts. re- 



incise-serrat g, dark green and usually quite 



glabrous above, much paler and soft with short hairs beneath ; all 

 ovate (or somewhat obovate) and subcordate, with many hooked 

 prickles on their midribs as well as on the glandular hairy stalks. 

 Pan. long, cylindrical, with all the branches strongly ascen 

 (except the very lowest) cymose or pseudo-umbellate, the lower 

 axillary ones distant, the ultra-axillary rather close, and the topmost 

 exceeding the lony-pedicelled prim rdial fl. ; 1. 8-nate, usually with 

 one or more simple ones above ; rachides felted, hairy and armed 

 like the &t. Sep. triaminlKr-ocniiiuat,'. with Img nfly-n 'it < I 

 point*. Pet. small, narrow, bright pink. Pale stam. far esc, e ling 

 pink-based styles. Young germens glabrous or very nearly so. 

 Abundant and unvarying over the more elevated parts of Epping 

 Forest (especially about High Beach and on both sides of the 

 Epping Road) ; where it has been closely observed for the last six 

 or seven years by its discoverer, Mr. J. T. Powell (v. Rpts. of 

 Watson Exchange Club, 1887-1892). Capt. Wolley Dod has also 

 gathered what seems a weak slightly modified form of this plant 

 near the top of Shooter's Hill, W. Kent. A very elegant slender 

 but free-growing bramble, at first sight recalling small forms of R. 



green 1. From R. hystrix ( to which among our Rubi it perhaps makes 

 the nearest approach) it differs constantly in the small very acumi- 

 nate Its. and the strongly-reflexed sep. For the present, at all 

 events, it seems best to place it alone as a strongly marked form 

 allied to aggregate R. rosacem. If ultimately it has to rank as a 

 var. of that, its best place no doubt would be immediately after 



Last summer I had an opportunity of seeing the living bushes 

 of a bramble discovered by the Rev. W. R. Linton near Shirley, 

 Derb., which has been named R.fusco-ater by Dr. Focke. Probably 

 this will have to take the place of " 73. R. badius Focke ?, ' R. fmco- 

 ater Weihe?' Bab." of my "Essay." Dr. Focke would now put it 

 after R. hystrix, and the following description is a translation of 

 the one recently published by him in Koch's Syn. ed. 3:—" E. fusco- 

 ater W. & N. in Biff. & Fngrh. Comp. Fl. Germ. i. p. Gl ; R. G. 

 p. 72, t. 26. St. red-brown, more plentifully and unequally prickly 

 than R. hystrix. L. mostly 5-nate. Lts. thick, rather evenly and 



term, broadly elliptic or orbicular from shallow- cordate base, with 

 short point. Inflorescence often long, with very hairy rachis, often 

 villous, and densely beset with unequal glands and acicles. Curved 

 prickles only present on main rachis of large pan. Sep. as in R. 

 hystrix. Pet. elliptic. Stam. erect, somewhat higher than the 

 usually greenish styles." The Derbyshire plant has what is 

 evidently an exceptionally narrow term. It., but in other par- 

 ticulars it agrees well with this description. It is very hairy and 



