4 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. a 
_ Spe ane. last spring by our friend, Mr. Alfred Fryer, in 
f the Wash ditches near Sutton, Cambridgeshire. It is 
+i catiivibe that the discovery should have been made by this 
enthusiastic botanist, ve has done so much towards working out 
the Flora of the Fen ¢ 
s stated in our Saver. Braun a hale pe from Llyn 
Idwal, Killarney, and Stowting to this speci We have had an 
opportunity of examining fresh SB es the Aan Idwal 
itella, collected by eee J. KE. Griffith and H. Groves, but 
no trace of any mucil. 
Mr. Fryer has sent us ieee: of the peculiar monecious 
Nitella _— to in our Notes for 1884 (Journ. Bot., 1885, p. 83) 
in West Norfolk; we are not, however, yet in a position 
to ome a definite opinion wpon it. : 
ON THE RELATION OF THE BRITISH FORMS OF 
UBI TO THE CONTINENTAL TYPES. 
By J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 
Tue subject of the relationship of the British forms of Rubi to 
the continental types is one of great interest. 2 is io in Central 
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their distribution, given by Nyman in the first part of his ‘Con- 
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as worked out in detail in his “ Synopsis Ruborum Germania” of 
1877. Dr. Focke has — the German Rubi much more _ 
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