294 RUBI AND ROS^ or THE channel islands. 



R. adenanthus, Boul. § Gillot. Dr. Focke has thus named a very handsome 

 plant which grows in some quantity in Gorey Bay, Jersey. In general 

 appearance it seems intermediate between R. leucostachys and R. radula, 

 Weihe, while also somewhat recalling R. Gelertii, K. Frid., and strong 

 forms of R. micans, G-ren. & Godr. Nothing quite like it has yet been 

 identified in Britain. It agrees well with M. Gillot' s authentic French 

 specimens lent by Mr. Gelert, of Copenhagen. Their label is as follows : 

 "Association rubologique, 1881. No. 429, Rubus adenanthus, Boul. et 

 Gill. Saone-et-Loire. Talus de la route d'Autun a St. Leger. Sous 

 Beuvrai, en face du Nameau de Channay : sol granitique et sablonneux, 

 alt. 800 m. 11 juillet, 1881. CoU. Gillot." The Gorey Bay locality is 

 very sunny, and the soil, I believe, is granitic. The plant, as it grows 

 there, may be thus described : — Stem bluntly angular and striate, of a 

 . dull purplish brown, rather thickly clothed with fine single and clustered 

 hairs which nearly hide the numerous shortly stalked glands and few 

 scattered pricklets. Prickles many, strong, subequal, patent or slightly 

 declining, nearly confined to angles. Leaves 3-5-nate pedate, grey or 

 whitish -felted beneath, with compound incised toothing. Terminal 

 leaflet obovate-acummate, with rather narrow emarginate or subentire 

 base. Panicle pyramidal-corymbose, with subracemo'se ultra -axillary 

 top, short ascending cymose intermediate branches, and longer more 

 strongly ascending racemose branches below ; the rachis and pedicels 

 with many slender falcate and declining prickles, and patent hairs hiding 

 the acicles and stalked glands. Calyx with sunken glands, and attenuate 

 points ascending after fall of petals. Stamens rather short, but exceeding 

 styles. No fruit seen. 



EGREGII. 



R. BoraeanilS, Genev. Guernsey : Lane above Glatney Esplanade, St. Peter- 

 Port ; a form with very few pricklets on faces of stem, and an abnormally 

 prickly panicle. St. Sampson's : a plant which also seems to go best 

 under this species. Jersey : General ; quite typical in some places, but 

 variable in others. Fauvic, Les Marais, and Val des Vaux, in plenty ; 

 Waterworks Valley, Gorey, Anne Port. First reported from Jersey by 

 Rev. Augustin Ley. 



R. Borreri, Bell- Salt. Guernsey : Abundant and characteristic near Vale 

 Castle, in quarries between St. Sampson's and L'Ancresse Common, and 

 at Ville-au-Roi. Jersey : Bouley Bay. 



RADULA. 



R. radula, Weihe, var. anglicanus, Rogers. Jersey : Waterworks Valley and 

 Pont Marquet. In good quantity, and in all respects identical with the 

 luxuriant form of this variety so common in the Bournemouth 

 neighbourhood, in east Dorset, and south-west Hants. No other 

 well-marked form of R. radula seen, though a plant found near Fauvic, 

 in Jersey, looks as if it might be a weak state or form of this species. 



R. PUdis, Wh. § N. Guernsey : Fermain Bay. 



R. BlOXamii, Lees. Guernsey : Widely distributed, and mostly quite 

 characteristic. Petit Bot Bay, La Valette, and elsewhere about St. 

 Peter-Port ; St. Martin's, Norgiots. 



Another handsome plant of this group, clearly allied to R. longithyrsiger, 

 Lees, but with a much broader and more developed panicle than is found 

 in that species, occurs in considerable quantity on the north coast of 

 Jersey, between the churches of St. Mary and St. Lawrence, as well as in 

 Waterworks Valley and in St. Aubin's Bay. But this remains unnamed 

 at present. 



No members of the groups Koehleriani and Bellardiani were observed 

 in the islands. 



