ON THE RUBI OF CAPEL CURIG. 47 
produced by certain species of seg" and also in caoutchouc and 
the products of certain Guttifer The memoir which, with the 
assistance of Planchon, he sablahodi in 1860-2 on the last- named 
group, grew out of their work on the Colombian Flora. The 
classification employed was based on the conformation of the 
embryo; it has since been greatly modified. 
[We are indebted for the above information to the kindness of 
Prof. H. Baillon: a short notice of Triana will also be found in 
Natire — Noy. 27, where his name is uniformly misprinted 
« Friana.”—Ep. Journ. Bot 
ON THE RUBI OF CAPEL CURIG. 
Br: G. prem F.R.S. 
forms, all of which grow in this damp mountain valley at an elevation 
of 600-800 ft. above sea-level. I a a set of them to Dr. hes 
and he, with his usual kindness, has examined them and sent m 
note of his determinations. I follow the sladifionsion Reenter in 
Hooker’s Student's Flora :— 
Subspecies suberectus. 
1. This is represented by typical pig which grows plentifully, 
along with Myrica Gale, on the banks of the north branch of the 
Llugwy, going from Capel ( Curig in the Erciise of Llyn Ogwen. 
Subspecies rhamnifolius. 
To this belong five out of the ten forms of the neighbourhood, 
as aah viz. -— 
A form differing but little from the ordinary Se ac of 
the London commons. The leaves are more softly beneath, 
and the rachis of the panicle is more densely pubesce aM 
8. Ii. aginis Bab., non W. & N. Quite agreeing with the plant 
s0 common in Yorishire and Cheshire, not seen about London. 
Barren stem very angular, with large hooked prickles. Terminal 
leaflet orbicular-cuspidate ; general and partial petioles armed with 
copious hooked prickles. Panicle lax, its branches armed with 
copious ae slender yellow prickles. Petals bri right pink. 
orm receding from typical perce rar in tlhe direction of 
umbrosus and mucronatus. Barren stem su bterete ; prickles small. 
ese s of barren stem often shee only, green = shortly softly 
‘les 
a petiole to and small. Punicle lax, its rachis ig ers A g many 
minute sete pe tome termixed with the small prickles and short pubescence, 
Sepals ovate, clothed all over with drab tomentum, not lengthened 
out into a pg 2 point. I have not seen this form elsewhere, and 
