22.6 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 
glabratus; similarly the panicle. But all the specimens in our 
herbaria named glabratus require very careful re-examination. 
Can it be, as I have hinted above, that the whole should be placed 
under &. Maassii as glabrous forms ? 
24. (442) R. mucronatus (Blox.). I am pleased to learn that our 
old name may be retained; for there is reason to suppose that the 
plant of Seringe is only a form, even if more than a synonym, of 
A. triflorus Rich., and that therefore our name is free for us to use. 
I have several specimens of the French R. mucronulatus before 
to judge from Herb 
: Pp. 
give England as a loc 
. , (448) R. Srrencerm Weihe and R. Borrert Bell-Salt. 
I am inclined to let these plants stand under one name. Their 
growth, and R. rubicolor Blox. lies between them. QR. Arrhenw 
e is very near R. Borreri; chiefly differing by its orbicular 
petals, and stamens much falling short of the styles. : 
- (444) R. erupescens Wirtg. Stems arching; prickles 
many slender, straight, patent or declining from a short compressed 
ase; leaves quinate, green and nearly naked beneath, doubly 
; 
dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet broadly obovate cuspidate ; panicle 
rather la i illary branch 
ascending, the ultra-axillary ones patent, corymbose ; its prickles 
slender, declining, a few stronger and rarely deflexed ; sepals ovate, 
much acuminate, setose 
I ha y deseription of 
them, except that the petals are “lactei”” and that ‘“ deinde styli 
cum filamenti énévi 
ears to have suspected that it was R 
ens. The English specimens that I have seen are from 
Maneetter, in Warwickshire, and near Ross, Herefordshire. [ 
= R. thyrsiger Bab. MS. R. rhenanus Mill. 
depends, as far as we are concerned, upo: i from Crab: 
ds, S$ we are , upon a specimen 
tree, in Devonshire, marked in my hand as authentically so-called 
