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74 G. H. Ballantyne (BELLARDIANI)/CAESII = CORYLIFOLII The Corylifolian group was not well understood in Rogers’ day and it still causes many problems, as demonstrated by his exclusion from it of two of its most prominent Scottish members, R. latifolius and R. pictorum. R. latifolius Bab.: Babington described this species in 1851 from specimens he gathered at Cramond Bridge, just west of Edinburgh. Forty-five years later Rogers made a special trip there but found the bramble to be “in very small quantity”. This is rather surprising as it is, along with R. radula, the dominant species in east and south Scotland. It occurs in a variety of forms, one or two of which may deserve a new name in time. Rogers placed it under the series Suberecti, although in his Handbook he has it in the Subrhamnifolii series a group no longer recognised. His uncertainty is expressed in the account of his visit to Stirling: “On the Castle rock I saw both R. corylifolius Sm. and R. caesius L. (sp. collect.). A bush or two or more of the R. corylifolius seemed fairly good R. sublustris of Lees, which may be regarded as typical corylifolius [=, in Scotland, R. latifolius], but most of the bushes were, I think, uncharacteristic, while some of them looked like hybrids of R. corylifolius and R. caesius. R. caesius itself I saw there …“ (1897b). This succinctly sums up the position of R. latifolius today. (It should be noted that Rogers’ last observation is an error, as in Scotland the true dewberry occurs only in the extreme SW; some low-growing forms of latifolius can mimic it.) R. britannicus Rogers = R. pictorum Edees: “A strong, very handsome bramble in sunny places, and, I believe, a well-marked distinct species” seen “in considerable quantity” by Rogers. It is indeed the commonest bramble in midcentral Scotland, found in a variety of habitats and often the only one to be encountered, catching the eye with its masses of white blooms in mid summer. Rogers placed it in the Bellardiani, now Glandulosi. Watson (1958) was also confused by it, putting it under his own R. iodnephes, and allocating it to the Dispares, now Anisacanthi. In 1982, what had been dubbed ‘false iodnephes’ for some years was put out of its misery by Edees, who named it R. pictorum, after the ancient Scottish people. Mention is made earlier of two recent determinations of R. wirralensis A. Newton under rhamnifolius and nemoralis. Several brambles collected in 1998, notably from the sides of Lochs Venachar and Achray, have proved to be R. wirralensis (det D. E. Allen) which seems to be widespread in the Trossachs. and reaches Stirling. Only one other bramble was found which was not listed by Rogers under one name or another, viz. R. elegantispinosus (A. Schum.) H. E. Weber, a clump of which was growing by a car park on the east side of Loch Lubnaig. This is of comparatively recent garden origin and is now thoroughly established in the central belt and is spreading rapidly. In addition to the 34 taxa in his two lists. Rogers gives a further 25 recorded from Scotland, leaving “fifty-five species and thirty-six varieties of British Rubi … still unrecorded from any part of Scotland”. The 59 taxa mentioned by him, together with the vice-comital list given in an Appendix to the Handbook of
Brambles of the Trossachs and Stirling 75 1900, formed the basis of the first comprehensive Rubus list for Scotland, issued a year or two later. This was compiled by Trail (1902-03), who acknowledges the debt owed to Rogers, without whose records it could not have been made. This list, of course, has been much out of date for many years and is very badly in need of revision, a task for the beginning of the new millennium. Interestingly, there are fewer than 70 named species (out of well over 300 on the British list) currently recorded from north of the Border, which is not many more than Rogers listed – although the determinations of many have changed of course and others have been deleted. Without the assistance of Dr David Allen, this paper could not have been compiled. As well as giving advice, determining some of my finds and commenting on and making corrections to the draft, he examined Rogers’ specimens from his Scottish trip in the Natural History Museum (BM) and let me have details of both the original determinations and the comments of Focke and later experts. Few papers on British brambles could be written without the help, direct or indirect, of Alan Newton and I am indebted to him also. Lindsay Corbett kindly furnished me a copy of Rogers (1897b). It should be noted that unattributed quotations throughout are taken from Rogers (1897a). References Edees, E. S. & Newton, A. (1988). Brambles of the British Isles. London, The Ray Society. Newton, A. (1979). Rubus drejeri G. Jensen in Scotland. Watsonia 12; 342. Newton, A. (1980). Progress in British Rubus studies. Watsonia 13; 35-40. Rogers, W. M. (1897a). On some Scottish Rubi. J.Bot. 35; 42-50. Rogers, W. M. (1897b). Notes on Stirlingshire Rubi, 1896. Trans. Stirlingshire Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc. 19; 107-110. Rogers, W. M. (1900). Handbook of the British Rubi. London: Duckworth. Trail, J. W. H. (1902-03). Scottish Rubi. Annals of Scottish Natural History. 1902: 170-176, 233-244; 1903: 41-47, 103-107. Watson, W. C. R. (1958). Handbook of the Rubi of Great Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge U. P.
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