228 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 
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All these forms require much careful study with better materials 
than I possess. 
equal minute aciculi and sete on the stem. 
stated to be ‘‘sparsim glandulosi v. eglandulosi,” and those organs 
are very scarce on my specimen from Focke (‘Rub. Select.’ 44). _ 
. (44 . PRERUPTORUM Boul. Baker combines this with 
R. Radula, but I cannot agree with him. To mention only two 
conspicuous characters: R. Radula has felt beneath its leaves, 
- preruptorum has none. The former has finely dentate leaves, 
the latter “dents plus grandes.” 
31. (449-451) R. scaser has long appeared to be probably = 
aggregate plant, and now the wish seems to be to distinguish its 
segregate forms. This has for some time been done on the 
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so Génévier, who received the true plant from 
_ ‘The R. scaber of Wirtgen and also his R. perpleaus are th 
R. Kaltenbachii Metsch, which is a very different plant, and must 
be placed near R. hirtus. 
_ _. Babingtonii is now allowed to be distinct from R. pee It 
a. : : 
They neither of them notice it, unless R. adornatus Miill. is the 
same. I define it and its allies as follows :-— 
(1). R. Babingtonié Bell-Salt.; stem arcuate-prostrate, terete OF — 
