ON THE RUBI AND ROS^E OF THE CHANNEL 



ISLANDS. 



BY THE REV. W. MOYLE ROGERS, F.L.S., AND F. A. ROGERS. 



(Reprinted by permission from the Journal of Botany.) 



At the end of last June we spent ten days in Guernsey and a 

 week in Jersey. Unfortunately we were unable to visit 

 Alderney ; but we had a satisfactory day in Sark, under the 

 guidance of Mr. Derrick, the President of the Botanical 

 Section of the Guernsey Natural History Society. To him 

 and to all the members of that Society, and especially to its 

 Secretary, Mr. Royle, we are greatly indebted for advice and 

 help ; as we are also to Mr. Lester, of Jersey. Although we 

 cannot of course natter ourselves that we have nearly 

 mastered the Rubies and Rosa flora of the three islands we 

 visited, we venture to hope that this paper will contain a 

 useful contribution towards our knowledge of it ; and we 

 hardly expect that further research will add very greatly to 

 the number of the species now recorded. 



As may be gathered from the notes which follow, the 

 genus Rosa is very indifferently represented in the islands ; 

 but the Rubi are abundant and of considerable interest. 

 Professor Babington's Primitice Florce Sarnica was published 

 in 1839, before he had given any special study to the latter 

 genus. Consequently we find him crediting the islands with 

 only four species, and it is probably quite impossible now to 

 ascertain what plants he referred to under the names he gives. 

 Two out of the four, viz., R. villicaulis and R. Koehleri, we 

 searched for in vain ; and his other two names, R. rhamnifolius 

 and R. fruticosus, are confessedly used in an aggregate sense 

 only. A few years ago, in a very hurried visit, the Rev. 

 Augustin Ley was able to record two species of great interest 

 from Jersey, R. Questierii and R. Borceanus. And so the 

 Rubus list stood, so far as we could ascertain, at the time of 

 our visit last summer. 



