502 24, ROSACER. 
own social position is too assured, to leave it matter of the slightest 
importance to himself, that no honour is gained by carrymmg a 
wicker basket behind his shoulders, suggestive of fish, but really 
stored instead with clippings from the bramble-bushes. The 
article which commences with the two lines of humility quoted, is 
deserving of perusal and of thought. Its tendency is sound; to 
recommend description and arrangement of the Bramble forms 
met with, but not prematurely or too dogmatically to make them 
into fixed species “ of such diverse equivalent values,” to wit, non- 
equivalents. 
Still, something must be done with the quasi-species here and 
elsewhere. ‘“ We must faggot our Rubi forms into bundles some- 
how,” it is remarked. And now that we find presented to us a 
volume which does faggot them into species, which shew the 
results of long continued attention to the living bushes, to the 
herbarium fragments, and to the descriptions of them in other 
books, all duly combined,—it seems safest and wisest for the 
“outer-world” of non-brambledom to accept the ready-made 
arrangement in thankful fealty. For the purposes of this Com- 
pendium, indeed, it would be useless to make any attempt at 
tracing out the areas or localities of the species, aggregate or 
segregate, unless on the rule of adhering to those named and 
treated in the writings of some one Botanist, known to have 
bestowed especial attention upon these entangling bushes, and 
whose species combinations or severances, with more or less 
continued sameness of nomenclature for them, are known to other 
reporters of localities, and practically accepted by them. 
This consideration determines the course to be taken in the 
present volume; namely, strict adherence to the names and 
species, as they have lately been set forth in ‘Tue BritisH 
Rust,’ by Professor C. C. Bazineton of Cambridge. It is the 
course which has been rendered practically convenient, too, through 
the Professor’s own method for shewing the distribution of his 
species being based on the same provinces and provincial nos. 
which are used in this present volume and in the original ‘ Cybele 
Britannica.’ More detailed records by counties and special 
localities will be found in ‘ The British Rubi’ itself. Its Author’s 
own words may best express the reliability of the topographical 
portions of his Work: 
“The localities for each species are with comparatively few 
exceptions founded upon specimens preserved in my own her- 
barium.” And previously, “In the attempt that is made to point 
out the geographical distribution of the species I have been 
obliged to trust chiefly to my own collection for information; for 
in the present uncertain state of the nomenclature of brambles it 
is not advisable to accept the names given even by the best 
botanists.” 
