6 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 
of mine in Yorkshire (Mr. Culverwell, of Bedale), who believed 
that he had produced it by hybridisation between the Raspberry 
and the Strawberry ! 
Kupsatus Focke. 
Group. 1.—Suberecti. 
2. R. suberectus.—What I have from Dr. Focke - —— and 
fissus ee agree with what we understand by those names in 
Engla e found undoubted suberectus this ee in small 
quantity in the lane between ‘ Wheat Sheaf Inn’ and Virginia 
— station, which is the first satisfactory Surrey station I have 
om: R. sulcatus Vest. — Of this I have seen several dried speci- 
mens, but have not gathered it. It differs from suberectus by its 
more elongated inflorescence and by ita stouter prickles and 
stalked lower leaflets. As it extends from sts ermany to Norway 
and Sweden it is not unlikely to oceur in Brita 
4, R. plicatus W. & N.——Here, again, the cavwitaalsial plant, 
which I saw rat copiously stan Spa and in the Neckar 
— entirely agrees with what we call by this name in Britain. 
5. R. nitidus W. & N.—tThis scien from plicatus in the direc- 
tion re Dr. Focke gives it as British on the oo 
of nshire specimens from Mr. Briggs. Long ago Genevier 
told nie ‘abe same thing about this Devon plant, “ _ bin = . 
specimens were sabe teh both by Mr. Brigg: in 
place in a wooded valley at Ivybridge, in June, 1865, he ee i 22 
on waste heathy rie: 8 above the Combe at Egg Buckland in June, 
18 myself seen similar forms near Witley in Surrey 
and in Woolmer forest in one eae The plant is well figured 
in the ‘ Rubi Germanici’ (tab. 4.) 
. R.afinis W.& N. ——What Dr. Focke and other German authors 
seem to understand by this name (‘ Rubi Germanici,’ tab. 3), is a 
ee type closely allied to the prec eding, not what we 
have been calling afinis in Kngland, which belongs to the 
Rhamnifolii. 
R hemistemon Muller.—This is not mentioned in Nyman, but 
judging from my specimens from Bloxam and B Bagnall, it is a 
it is represented by 
_specimens (No. 3.) in the benictal series “of Vosgesian Rubi issued 
by Abbé Boulay. 
Group 2.——Rhamnifolit. 
This group, which consists of the arching Rubi with glabrous 
barren stems and equal prickles, seems to be much more abundant 
_ botl ae individuals, in Britain, than in Belgium or 
German ny. 
7. f. carpinijolius W. & N.—This is given as En 
Nyman, but I have not been able to sedi vitalive it cle comet 
British plant. Dr. Focke regards as carpinifolius the only rhamni- 
folian bramble I collected in the neighbourhood of Spa. Wirtgen’s 
