﻿series of years, and has had various names suggested for it. It is 

 due to the suggestion of the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers that it is now- 

 subordinated to R. nemoralis Mull, as a variety, a suggestion in 

 which I heartily concur. 



Rubus curvidens, n. Bp. Stem tall, arching, angular, hairy ; 

 prickles not confined to the angles, stout, declining from compressed 

 dilated base, with few acicles and stalked glands. Leaves large, 

 quinate-digitate or pedate ; stalks strongly armed with falcate prickles 

 and a few acicles. Leaflets long-elliptic-obovate, often with nearly 

 parallel sides, green on both sides, with scattered hairs above, more 

 hairy on the veins beneath. Serration coarsely crenate-serrate, with 

 the larger tell) cH-fi.-icnyhi recurved; petiolule of the terminal 

 leaflet one-third to one-fourth of its length ; basal leaflets nearly 

 sessile, not imbricate; all the leaflets of nearly the same shape. 

 Panicle often very large, cylindrical, blunt-topped, sometimes leafy 

 to top, but often with long ultra axillary part, compound, branches 

 ascending, the uppermost sometimes becoming patent, with ternate 

 or simple leaves. Rachis straight, usually strongly armed u-ith dedinin,) 

 /irirh-hs, the upper part hairy and grey-felted, with many slender 

 acicles and unequal stalked glands. Sepals grey-felted, aciculate and 

 setose, ovate-acuminate, reflexed after flowering. Petals large, 

 pink : stamens greenish white, connivent, exceeding styles. 



The large and long, often nearly parallel-sided leaflets, with 

 coarse serration, and backward curved principal teeth; the large 

 and long panicle, with armature variable, but often abundant in 

 prickles, acicles, and stalked glands, are characteristic points in 

 this plant. It seems to stand best near to R. Borceanus and R. 



Abundant in several districts of Herefordshire, in woods and 

 thickets. Castle-meadow "Wood, Sellack. Near Athelstane's Wood, 

 Little Dew Church. Belmont, near Hereford. Dinmore Woods ; 

 and near Wormesley. All these stations are in Herefordshire. 

 Thicket by the Cennen river, near Carreg Cennen, Carmarthen- 

 shire ; clearly the same plant. 



I have had this plant under observation since about 1880, and 

 have received varying but always unsatisfactory suggestions from 

 the authorities. Hence a name and description appear requisite. 



Rubus Bokreei Bell-Salt., var. vikgultobum, n. var. Stem 

 rather low, arching, bluntly angled, glabrous or nearly so, with 

 tubercles bearing acicles, sometimes numerous, at other "times few : 

 stalked glands very few. Prickles short, stout, declining or de- 

 flexed, usually far less numerous than in the type, from a compressed 

 dilated base. Leaves usually quinate ; leaflets green on both sides, 

 smooth above, with scattered hairs below, all roundly elliptic, very 

 shortly acuminate, the serration of the edges rather coarse, nearly 

 simple, teeth all pointing forward; petioles and petiolules short, 

 esj<> daily those of the basal leaflets, (jiving to the leaves a crowded 

 growth. Panicle-rachis with a dense clothing of stalked glands and 

 acicles, its larger prickles usually very few, declining ; sepals 

 spreading in flower, reflexed in fruit; petals pinkish, stamens 

 white, exceeding pale green styles. 



