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274 RUBUS SILVATICUS W. & N.
filiformes erecti subflexuosi (6-10 cm. alti) glabri striati uniflori.
Folia parva (6-10 mm. longa) ; radicalia suborbicularia vel late ovalia
margine ciliata ; caulina ovata vel plus minus angn.ste lanceolata
obtusiuscula glabrescentia suberecta, margine integro revoluto
lineata, ad caulis basin conferta. Floras erecti. Eeceptaculum
anguste obconicum, siccando nigricans, nervis paullo prominentibus
sequidistantibus. Calicis lobi (ut in C. jiatuld) triangulari-lineares
acuti erecti subfalcati, corolla ^ breviores. Corolla anguste infundibu-
laris, undique glabra, vix ad ^ incisa ; lobi late triangulares patuli.
Staminum squamfe suborbiculares, breviter ciliatfe ; filamenta
squamis ^ longiora e basi latiore angustata ; antlieraB lineares, filamentis
solis 3-plo longiores. Pollen luteum. Stili pars inferior
glabra strictura transieus in piliferam incrassatam obtusam subaequilongam
; stigmata late linearia, stilo 10-plo breviora. Ovarium
vertice fere planum. Ovula parva numerosa. Capsula et semina
mihi non visa (dehiscentiffi locus dubius). Fl. lulio.
Syn. C. pusilla Haenke, var. ? calycina Wk. & Lge., Prodr. Fl.
Hisp. ii., 292.
Rah. In Hispaniffi bor. montibus Cantabricis, apud Convento
de Arvas regni Legionensis in glareosis torrentum (Bourgeau, PI.
d'Esp. 1864, n. 2656 (s. nom. C. jmsilld, var. ? Cosson).
The concordance of habit wliicli this plant shows with C. cochleariifolia
Lamk., 1783 = {C. jmsil la Hffiuke, 1788), is chiefly a consequence
of the fact that both are sjjecies (jlareoscB. Most of its
characters do not occur in any of the forms of cochleariifoUa ; thus
the fusiform root, the dark rigid leaves with revolute borders, the
smgle erect flowers with along receptacle and broad calyx-lobes, as
well as the conformation of the style, separate C. cantahrica from
the said species, and there remains still an uncertainty as to its
nearest relations.
RUBUS SILVATICUS W. & N.
By T. K. Akcher Briggs, F.L.S.
So long ago as 1880, when I published the ' Flora of Plymouth,'
I thought it possible that a bramble mentioned therem, in the last
paragraph under R. villicauHs, would prove to be the R. silvaticus
W. & N. I had not at that time a copy of the ' Kubi Germanici
to refer to, but was led to take this view through noticing the close
resemblance between specimens of the plant in question and
Continental ones of silvaticus received from Dr. Focke.
Since then, however, I have found the English plant to agree
fairly well in essential features with both the plate and description
of silvaticus in the great German work (Eubi Ger. tab. xv. p. 41).
Moreover, I had the pleasure last year of showing a growing bush
of it to Dr. Focke, and this led to his notice of the species in his
recent " Notes on English Eubi " (Journ. Bot. xxviii. p. 130, May,
1890). It is with great satisfaction that I find him saying in reference
to the English plants, "Mr. Briggs showed me, near Plymouth,