RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 7 
popes I had an opportunity of seeing alive, both the type and 
the variety heteroclitus, on the basalt hills of the Siebengebirge. 
is the amnifolian bramble of North Yorkshire, and 
occurs also abundantly in the Lake District and reappears in the 
New Forest and about “Sprcmypetage but ch I have never see 
whi 
about i oe is not in any way essentially different from mon- 
tanus, and that we ought to look upon this as the British Aarne 
tative of this present type. I believe the all —— R. lacin 
of gardens is a cut-leaved form of the same plan ees pie 
Focke classify here the R. Grabowskii of Balington, which they 
bees to be quite different from the original German Gr reir 
of y own impression of Bloxam’s Grabowskii is that i 
comes in aaa od between pubescens and infestus, and not seb 
we Rhamnifolii. 
8. R. vulgaris W. & N.—The type is not given as British by 
Nyman, and I know it only from two or _ rig septate and 
the figure in ‘ Rubi yaa It seem me approach 
closely to our English R. ramosus Bloxam, but "abo this I know 
too little to _ with Soihion nce. According to Focke, R. maero- 
acanthus N., belongs here, so that “it must be entirely 
by himself this Reape near Oldenburg, ee think all our British 
batologists would be in favour of keeping up Lindleianus as a 
distinct aioe. 
9. R. rhamnifolius W. & N.—This is not recognised as British 
by Nyman, but Ae Rp specimens of the Minden plant, figured 
‘Rubi Germanici,’ tab. 6, given me by Focke, agree fairly well with 
) ‘ Nor 
Pomeranian FR. Muenteri. The oe cor —— Dr. Pooks looks 
upon as a very rare endemic Germ receding from rhamni- 
folius in the direction of thy sales Sey 
Besides these three we have in Britain under this section at 
le distinguishable forms not menti by viz., i. 
incurvatus ; co i een rhamnifolius and villi- 
aulis, and R. imbricatus Hort, which Profes: ington now 
approximates to ramosus, but which Mr. Briggs finds in the neigh- 
bourhood of Plymouth to quite maintain its distinctness. 
(To be continued.) 
