NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. I27 
by Génévier, a upon what authority does not appear. There is 
no plant bearing that name in the Herb. a although a 
ee 
choug, is there named R. Bloxamii, but is really the Plymouth 
plant, which I now eall R. thyrsiger. canaehe sania no remark upon 
that specimen. As the description of anything named R. rhenanus 
cannot be found (even in Ga ndoger’s enormous list), I hope that I 
may be allowed to correct my mistake; a as I think that the 
plant deserves distinction, dencttbe it as follows 
- THYRSIGER Bab. MS. Stem antabatprebieiie: angular, 
slightly furrowed ; prickles ee declining from a long compressed 
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leaflet , ne etc panicle long, pyramidal, very hairy and 
most marked distinction. It is very different in that respect from 
R. Bloxamii. Apparently the flowers are white, and the stamens 
oa the styles ; ner these points require attention on the living 
27. (445) R. Broxamu Lees. There is a beautiful series of this in 
Herb. Génév., named by Baker, from Laskell (Aug. ts or 
and Bloxam, from Twycross and Atherstone, whic e quo 
(‘ Rub. Loir.’ 140) as the authority for the name. Attached to one 
fore be any doubt about —— meaning the same plant as we do 
isname. R. splendidus Mill. is a OnE of it, published 
pl R. oe us Ww. & N. I find several British - 
“set” of 1876, from a wood between Pavy and Tamar, De 
(Briggs) ; i from Wrottsley Wood, near i eee ners (Fraser, 
1877) ; m Moreton Hampstead, Devon (Moyle Rogers, Aug. 
15th, isi); aa (4) from near a rth (1854), from Mr. Kirk. 
I therefore retain the name in 0 
R. philyrophyllus L. & M. 1 "identify a plant found by the Rev. 
Dr. Hind at Honington, Suffolk, with this. It seems to agree 
exactly with specimens named by Miiller and Génévier. It was 
published by P. J. Miiller in ‘ Pollichia’ of 1859, p. 117. 
— in Génévier’s and Focke’s books, not being foun 
districts; and the former placed it in his —< near to R. Dese- 
glesti, wish doubtful correctness, in ae opini 
R. thyrsiflorus differs from ales Fogger’ - having pang 
unequal At nt rickles, a broadly obovate acumin 
terminal leaflet. reps panicle with its ultra-axillary cy — 
racemose, usually rather dense strong axillary racemose nehes, 
