NINETEENTH CENTURY RUBUS SPECIMENS FROM SUFFOLK CAROL A .
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The history of the study of the brambies of Suffolk has four distinct phases. The first comprehensive list was compiled by W. M. Hind (1889) in the Flora of Suffolk. This list was substantially amended by C. E. Salmon (1907) who, with the helpof the Revd. Wm. Moyle Rogers, examinedHind's "Herbarium of Suffolk Plants" at Ipswich Museum in 1906. This herbarium was compiled by Hind and contains the voucher specimens for his Flora. The subject then lay dormant until E. S. Edees (1975) produced a list of brambies from Suffolk of thirty-nine species. His list comprised mainly recent records, although he took into account the earlier work of Hind and Salmon and quoted seven records from the nineteenth Century, from herbarium sheets in Ipswich Museum. A. L. Bull has now advanced considerably the study of this group in Suffolk through his ten year survey of the brambies of East Anglia. Since Hind compiled the original list the brambies have been the focus of intensive study, in Britain and in Europe, and many changes have occurred. If his, and other, early records are to usefully Supplement and provide a historical background to the more recent work, it is necessary to return to and check the original specimens. Edees (1975) states that the specimens Salmon examined are no longer at Ipswich and that their present location is unknown. This Statement can now be partially repudiated, as almost half of these specimens have been found in the Ipswich Museum Herbarium. The records that follow are all taken from specimens in the herbarium collections of Ipswich Museum. They come from three sources, firstly, specimens from Hind's "Herbarium of Suffolk Plants". Secondly, specimens from Hind's collection of British Plants, and thirdly, specimens from three other nineteenth Century herbaria. Each specimen in the text is primarily named according to the original determination; for specimens from the first two sources this is Hind's determination. This name is followed by locality, date, and later determinations and opinions using the abbreviations, WMR— W. M. Rogers, ESE—E. S. Edees, ALB—A. L. Bull, and with the author's interpretations in Square brackets. In cases where the nomenclature has been updated Bull has provided the name currently in use (Comm. Edees, 1980). "Herbarium of Suffolk Plants"—W. M. Hind Forty-eight voucher specimens of Rubus are marked in Hind's Flora and therefore should be contained in the "Herbarium of Suffolk Plants". In 1906 Rogers examined these specimens and commented on or redetermined thirty-eight of them. Edees (1975) stated that the specimens were no longer at Ipswich. Now twenty-one of them have been relocated in the Ipswich Museum Herbarium and were examined by A. L. Bull in February 1981. Four of the specimens are annotated by Rogers, but are not quoted by Salmon, because Rogers agreed with the original determinations. Fifteen specimens Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc. 18 part 3.