10 



(s) R. micans,'*' Mill Hill Lane, Ballintaggart, Aghaderg, 

 29th June, 1896. "There is no R micans within this 

 cover, but two dissimilar panicles, and leaves which may 

 belong to either of them. The more spreading panicle 

 again recalls Mr. Lett's No. 16. — W.M.R. 



R. ? Magheralin, shrubbery, trailing over bushes, Co. 



Down, 20th, 1896. — C. H. Waddell. "This seems 

 rather near the German R. chlorothyrsos, Focke ; but that 

 has a much more glandular panicle, though a far less 

 prickly and acitulate stem. Mr. Waddell's plant also 

 makes some approach towards R. Qutstieni, Lefv. and 

 Muell. On this Mr. Gelert said, * I think also nearest 

 to R. chlotothM SOS Focke,' adding that he had seen that 

 species in Germany with panicles no more glandular 

 than in this Irish plant, but never with such mixed 

 armature on the stem." — W. M. R. 

 As will be seen from the foregoing notes on Co. Down Rubi 

 collected in 1896, compared with the Rev. E. S. Marshall's papers 

 in Journal Bot., 1896, 252 and 497. and my description of "two 

 new brambles from Ireland," pp. 504. to 506 of the same vol. ; 

 it is becoming increasingly evident that Ireland has several 

 (probably many) Rubi not known in the sister isle of Great 

 Britain, in addition to a great many species and varieties common 

 to both. Which of these S[)ecially Irish brambles may be endemic 

 remains to be seen. It has been suggested that some of them 

 may occur in the Spanish Peninsula. P^or the present Messrs. 

 Lett and Waddell, and other Irish botanists will, I venture to 

 suggest, be doing us the greatest service by carefully observing 

 and collecting all the best marked and most constant forms 

 occuring in their neighbourhoods and making note of their range 

 of disiribution as well as of their apparent range of variation. 

 Strictly local forms, such as most good bramble districts produce, 

 have of course an interest of their own ; but if we are to be saved 

 from utter bewilderment in our study of the genus their collectors 

 would surely do well to make note of their apparently local 

 character, and to be content to leave them unnamed while they 

 are trying to ascertain whether they occur elsewhere or not. — 

 W. M. R. 



