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RUBUS ERYTHRINUS. 205
to LindleiauKs, wliicli will, I believe, have to be flcscribed as a new
species, should it not be found to be identical with some Continental
one." We now find the possibility thus hinted at established as a
fact in the opinion of Dr. Focke, for he in his " Notes " (Journ. Bot.
xxviii. 102, 3) calls this plant K. enjthriiius Genev., without question.
It will be seen that I had the pleasure last summer of
showing it to him in many spots near Plymouth, and that he also
saw it with the Kev. W. Moyle Rogers and myself near Daggons,
Dorset. It is in compliance with his expressed wish that I should
say something about it that I write this notice, and give the following
description :
EuBUs ERYTHRINUS' Genov., Focke in Journ. Bot. xxviii. 102, 3,
Stem, strong, arching, angular, glabrous, or with few short hairs,
of a dull dark purplish red in exposure, shining. Prirhies on the
angles, uniform, of moderate length, purplish red with yellow
points, strong, sharp, slightly declining from an oblong compressed
base. Leaves 5-nate. Leajicts thin, bright green, shining above,
with very few distant hairs or glabrous, rather thickly clothed with
short hairs beneath ; irregularly but not very deeply dentate, or
dentate-sen-ate, fiat, or very slightly waved just at the edges, sometimes
convex ; lower oblong with short point ; intermediate
obovate-acuminate ; terminal long-stalked, broadly obvovate-, or
even oval-acuminate, somewhat cordate at the base ; petioles with
many strong hooked prickles, thinly hairy ; stipules linear-lanceolate.
Flowering shoot rather long and narrow, with few hairs on the
lower portion of the stem ; jiricMes on the angles, somewhat scattered,
small but strong, slender, declining. Leaves 3-nate, sometimes
5-uate. Leaflets thin, shining above, obovate or oval-acuminate ;
lower with short point. L'anlde often compound, of moderate
length, hairy, densely so and sometimes felted towards the top,
sub-pyramidal in outline, being abruptly rounded at the top ;
branches short and fevv-fiowered, rather lax, separate for at least
two-thirds the length of the panicle ; axillary ascending ; ultraaxillary
sub-patent ; \