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The hish Naturalut, 
May, 
SOME IRISH BRAMBI.es. 
BY K. A. PHII.UPS. 
During the summer of 1905, I devoted some little time to a 
further study of the Rubi of the South of Ireland, and in the 
following notes record the results of the season's collecting. 
All the specimens, which numbered about 170, were sub- 
mitted to the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers who, with his usual 
kindness, has critically examined, named, and reported on each. 
Most of the specimens were gathered within a radius of 
four miles from Cork city, the remainder being from the 
neighbourhoods of Glengarriff and Limerick. A large 
number, as the notes will show, are additions to the lists for 
these districts, while two {R. ciirvideiis and the typical form 
of R. longithy7'sige7') are certainly, and another {R. Borea?ius) 
is probabl}^, new to Ireland. 
As is usually the case with collections of Irish Rubi, many 
of the specimens differ so much from recognized British forms 
that identification is at present impossible ; further material 
and study may prove that some of them are new species or 
varieties. Hybrids are numerous, but their parentage is in 
nearly all cases more or less doubtful. 
Mr. Rogers writes of one set of remarkable-looking speci- 
mens from Glengarriff — " it strongly recalls the plant named 
R. Briggsii and described by the late Rev. A. Bloxam in Jour. 
Bot. 1869, 33, and as represented by Mr. Briggs's own speci- 
mens now in my herbarium. Mr Briggs, however, before his 
death had ceased interesting himself in this plant as probably 
an anomalous form or hybrid " 
In the following, additions to the county or vice-county 
lists of " Irish Topographical Botany " are indicated by having 
the county names printed in capitals. Most of the species 
new to the divisions of Cork are also additions to the flora of 
the county as a whole. 
Rubus argcnteus, Wh. & N. {R erythrinus, Genev., auct. brit. prius). 
4. Cork Mid. By the Lee at Carrigrohaiie, 
R, dumnonfensls, Bab. 
5. COKK E. By the side of a field near Queenstown Junction. 
R. pulcherrimus, Neum. 
8. Ivimerick. By the White River at Loghill, and by ditches near 
the BalHnacnrra estuary. 
