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p. FOX LEE : RUBUS PODOPHYLLUS IN ENGLAND. 



CI. acerosiim, CI. diance, CI. cojvm, CI. leibleinii, Cylindrocystis 

 diplospoi'a^ Cyl. curtus, Arthrodesmus convergens, A. incus, Staurastrum 

 gracile, St. orbiatlare, Sf. tricorne, Sf. caspidatum, St. fiircigerum, Si. 

 sebaldi, St. armigerum (Breb. ^ St. pseudofurcigerum Reinsch), St. 

 dejeduin, Desmidiwn swartzii. 



Decoy Pond : Hyalotheca mucosa and Desinidium swartzii, both 

 plentiful amongst the Chara. 



Fountains in garden, Thirkleby Park : Cosftiafium boirytis, C. 

 ietrophthalmum, Closteriuin inoniliferuvi. 



RUBUS PODOPHYLLUS IN ENGLAND. 



p. FOX LEE, 



Deiusbury, Phanerogamic Secretary to the Botanical Section of the Yorkshii-e 

 Naturalists' Unioii. 



Last year I gathered near Dewsbury two forms of the Blackberry, 

 one of which has proved to be a species not known before in 

 England. I sent them for determination to Prof C. C. Babington, 

 M.A., F.R.S., who informed me that one of the specimens (from 

 Soothill Wood) was 'very near to var. festivus' of Hubus Lejeunei 

 Weihe, and that the other one was the interesting new English 

 species, Rubus podophyllus Miill. 



The last-named species I found fruiting luxuriantly in a copse at 

 Soothill, and Prof. Babington's note concerning it is as follows 

 'Your specimen seems to be podophyllus in my opinion. It is published 

 in the 'Journal of Botany ' for January 1887, as found near Festiniog, 

 North Wales (last year), by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. Rubus 

 podophyllus w^as originally published by P. J. Miiller as a native of 

 the Vosges Mountains, in Boulay's Collection. It is in Genevier's 

 book, and published as from the basin of the Loire.' In Babington's 

 ' Supplement to Notes on Rubi ' in the ' Journal of Botany ' for 

 January 1887, the fohowing botanical description of Rubus podophyllus 

 Miill. appears : — Stem prostrate, angular, with few clustered hairs and 

 few setae ; prickles slender, rather unequal, dechning from an oblong 

 compressed base; leaves 5-3-nate, rather irregularly but finely 

 serrate, with a few larger patent teeth, subpilose above, rather paler 

 and hairy beneath ; terminal leaflet oval-oblong, acuminate ; panicle 

 narrow, simple or subracemose, with short hairs and sets, its lower 

 branches racemose-corymbose, axillary few-flowered, its prickles 

 slender, declining ; sepals hairy, felted, setose, aciculate, reflexed ; 

 petals white, much narrowed below ; stamens white, exceeding the 

 greenish styles ; carpels glabrous. It resembles some forms of 

 R, carpinifolius, but that is arcuate-erect, and has few or no setae. 



Naturalist, 



