220 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 
have the true plant from one place, near Plymouth Sani 
Tamerton Foliot and amy Down), where it is found by 
. Brigg 
scarcely ey It has also a few sete on its calyx. I define it:— 
R. thyrsoideus Wimm.; stem erect-arcuate, angular, furrowed 
subglabrous ; ears nearly patent from a dilated compressed base ; 
leaves quinate-digitate ; leaflets doubly but irregularly and coarsely 
serrate, finely saan felted beneath ; _ terminal leaflet obovate-lanceolate, 
acumi : r 
flowered; its pores few, weak, declining or — petals 
white ; oo exceeding the styles, ultimately conniv 
nd informs me that he has from the pan a Wight 
a plant nam re R. elatior Focke by that. botanist himself. This 
a find a place under the true R. thyrsoideus, in its 
Inde 
f . candicans Weihe. ed its difference from 2 
candicans is apparently very slight (I have specimens from Focke, 
R = before me), chiefly in the stems being furrowed 
10. (431) R. rusrscens Wirtg. This is undoubtedly the plant 
we 7 know by the name of R. thyrsoideus. It has a angular 
a 
many slender —_ ones anes lanceolate-acuminate pari 
e : - 
can basil bear tha 
11. (481) R. PUBESCENS W.&N., var. The plant named F. 
discolor 8. pubescens by me i s certainly not the R. arduennensis, a8 
was suspected by Focke, if we may trust a specimen of the plant 
—— at. * —— art ad mera —- by Focke. Baker 
‘nk state t is plant 3 is uchia doused, and probably it is not 
Still it is very unlikely that our plant and one of the extreme sou 
of Euro ould on identical. I have not seen a specimen of the 
R. pp acon of Seringe or of Gussone, nor have I rae page 
plant from the Mingle Water. The leaves of my plan 
y on the veins beneath on the stronger and older sp ge 
ashy-pubescent on the autumnal branches. My specimens are from 
Llanwarne, oe and Piereefield, Monmouthshire. 
The R. discolor W. & N. is R. macrostemon Foc - be which, 
combined with his R. viselinchias and R. Winteri, he s «« Speci- 
ina exsiccata.... . certis notis ees suena (p. 198). 
