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Rubus umbrosus , Auct. Angl. West Cliff Moor, Bournemouth, S. 
Hants; in plenty ; nth July and 1st August, 1889. Dr. Focke, who 
was with me when I gathered the ist August specimens, would place 
them and all the “ R. umbrosus ” in the Bournemouth neighbourhood 
under Muenteri rather than Maassii, but he does not consider these 
essentially distinct. The following characters were taken from the 
fresh specimens Petals pinkish, roundish-elliptic, clawed, ciliate. 
Sepals, ovate-acuminate, green, white-bordered, reflexed. Styles and 
anthers greenish yellow. Filaments white, exceeding styles. The 
leaves are always of a dull opaque green above, and the terminal 
leaflet frequently divided. — W. Moyle Rogers. Prof. Babington 
agrees with Dr. Focke in referring this to R. Muenteri, which he places 
under R. nemoralis , Mull. 
R. umbrosus, Bab. non W. and N. ; Baker. Wood on the Auchen- 
cairn road, Kirkcudbright, 19th September, 1889. Hedge, near 
Borgue, by the side of a burn running into Kirkandrew’s Bay, Kirk- 
cudbright, 1 8th September, 1889. New County record. — Charles 
Bailey. “ Near R. pulcherrimus (polyanthemos Dr. Focke. Prof. 
Babington says of the Borgue plant : “ I place to R. nemoralis. How 
are R. polyanthemos and R. Neumani to be distinguished ? I see 
that they are combined as Neumani and pulcherrimus added by 
Friderichsen and Gelert. There is an old pulcherrimus , so that 
name cannot stand.” 
R. umbrosus, Bab. non W. and N. = R. polyanthemos, Lindeb. ; 
Baker. Hedge on the roadside, Cguldside, near Whithorn, Wigton- 
shire, 20th September, 1889. IJew County record. — Charles 
Bailey. “ Probably the same as the last, but there is no barren 
stem.” — C. C. Babington. 
R. macrophyllus, W. and N., glabratus. Pengethly and Rigg’s 
Wood, Sellack, Herefordshire, 1 8th September, 1889. — Augustin Ley. 
“ I think so.” — C. C. Babington. 
R. mucronatus, Blox. Bournemouth, S. Hants, 24th June, 1889. 
I send this as one of the characteristic Rubi of sandy and gravelly 
places in Mid-South England. It is especially abundant throughout 
East Dorset, and in the district lying between the New Forest and 
the Hants coast, to Southampton Common eastward, beyond which I 
have not looked for it. This year I have gathered just the same 
plant at Redlynch and Downton in S. Wilts, where it has also been 
found abundantly by Mr. E. J. Tatum, who has sent me specimens 
from Sedgehill and East Knoyle in the extreme west of that county, 
and also from Clarendon and Grimstead, east of Salisbury. Besides 
its very characteristic foliage, it is remarkable for its cup-shaped 
corolla, with petals (pure white or pinkish, elliptic or obovate) 
crumpled and fugacious. The stem is usually angular or even 
furrowed, only slightly hairy, with slender much compressed prickles, 
nearly or quite confined to the angles, and a few unequal scattered 
aciculi. These slender aciculi are usually very numerous on the 
panicle and readily rub off. Intermixed with them are a few setie, 
usually very few, except in luxuriant specimens. Filaments white, 
exceeding the greenish styles, but afterwards reddening as well as the 
