﻿lithigera; petioli 0-2-0-3 cm. long., pubescentes. Spicae admodum 

 evolutae 1-5-2-0 cm. long., saepius solitariae, si oppositae paria 

 plerumque inaequilonga, 0-8-1-0 cm. lat. Bracteaa 0-7 cm. long., 

 0-45 cm. lat., foliaceae, eleganter nervosae. Calycis segmenta vix 

 usque 0-5 cm. long., in sicco decoloria. Corollas tubus vix 0-4 cm. 

 long, basi 0*15 cm. lat. ; palatus prominens ; labium posticum 

 quam anticum paullo brevius, sublyratum, lobis abbreviatis fere 

 retusum ; labium anticum rhombeo-obovatum, 0 - 4 cm. long, et lat., 

 ejus lobi 0-13 cm. long. Filamenta ad 0 38 cm. supra basin tubi 

 inserta, 0-3 cm. long. ; antberarum loculi inaequales, loculus 

 superior basi late truncatus calvus, inferior major et calcare recto 

 valido se ipsum semiaequante munitus. Pollinis graua ellipsoidea, 

 circa 30 diam. Ovarium ovoideum, acutum, circa 0-1 cm. long., 

 ovulis 2 superioribus effoetis 2-ovulatum ; stylus 0-5 cm. long., 

 pilosus. Capsula 0-4 cm. long., 0 2 cm. lat. Semina suborbioularia, 

 circa 0-1 cm. diam., albida, retinaculis truncatis basi incrassatis 

 0-15 cm. long, fulcrata. 



A J. debili Vabl abhorret praeter alia foliis nequaquam similibus 

 et revera abbreviatis et comparate multo latioribus, florum multo 

 majorum palato eminentiore et lobis majoribus, staminibus basi 

 pilosis, necnon antberis triplo longioribus. 



Tbis plant occurs in country described by Dr. Gregory as 

 " undulating plateaux witb basalt flows and lake deposits." 



RUBUS RUBICUNDUS, sp. n. 

 By the Rev. W. H. Purchas, M.A. 

 It is certainly very undesirable to add to the already lengthened 

 list of British brambles, unless very good cause can be shown for 

 doing so ; but the plant which it is here endeavoured to describe is 

 so readily distinguishable from other forms, and is so plentiful aud 

 characteristic a bramble of the district a mile or two south of 

 Ashbourne, that it would be inconsistent with the treatment ac- 

 corded to the rest of the genus to leave it without recognition as a 

 well-marked variety. When some years ago I first noticed this 

 bramble m the hedges of the Ashbourne and Derby Eoad, where it 

 attracted my attention by the peculiar tint of its flowers, as well as 

 by other characteristics, 1 sent it to Prof. Babington, who referred 

 it to H. romceus, as also did Dr. Focke when it was afterwards sub- 

 mitted to him by the Rev. W. R. Linton. This decision I was glad 

 to accept, since it appeared to make R. romceus something really 

 distinguishable from forms of R. Hystrix. Further observation of 

 the plant, however, especially by the Rev. W. R. Linton, who has 

 enjoyed the best opportunities of studying it, from living in the dis- 



