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R. thyrsifloms, W. and N. Though stated by Mr. N. E. 

 Brown to be recorded from half a dozen localities, this is not 

 yet known to be a British bramble. Mr. Moyle Rogers tells 

 me that his Moreton Hampstead (Devon) plant, which is one 

 of the localities quoted, is R. pallidus, W. and N. ; and also 

 that in the Genevier Herbarium at Cambridge the Ingleby 

 (Yorks) plant and the Rumple (Devon) plant, both of them 

 stations that Mr. Brown, following Professor Babington, 

 relies on for tJiyrsiflorus, are certainly different both from 

 the Moreton Hampstead plant and from one another. This 

 testimony quite upsets the evidence adduced. The Suffolk 

 variety, named pliilyropliyllus by Professor Babington, is 

 apparently a dumetoruvi form ! 



R. clilorotJiyrsos, Focke. There is no ground for suppos- 

 ing that we have this in Britain. 



R. echinatus, Lindl. Mr. N. E. Brown gives R. Qnestierii, 

 Lefv. and Muell., as a synonym with a ?, on Professor 

 Babington's authority, and then expresses a doubt whether 

 R. ecJiinatus is the true R. Questierii, Lefv. and Muell. 

 For this doubt there is much ground. R. Questierii, Lefv. 

 and Muell., has been recently identified for us by Dr. Focke 

 with a bramble which is much more likely to be mistaken 

 for R. erytJirinus, Genev., being but slightly more glandular 

 than that eglandular species. 



R. rudis, W. and N. By some mishap Mousehold Heath, 

 Norwich, has been given as a locality, "teste Focke." Professor 

 Babington saw the Norwich bramble again and again, and did 

 name it R. rndis, W. and N. ; but Dr. Focke named it R. 

 radula, and R. radula, var. ; and the plant in question is R. 

 radula, W. and N., var. echinatoides^ Rogers. 



R. Loehri, Wirtg. Dr. Focke has withdrawn from the 

 position that our Herefordshire and Gloucester plant is 

 R. Loehri. We are calling the plant R. sertiflorus, P. J. Muell., 

 for the present, placing it under R. radula ; though there 

 is still some uncertainty both as to its place and name. 



R. radula, Weihe. The Rev. W. M. Rogers considers 

 var. LeigJiionii, Lees, " hardly separable, even as a var.," from 

 R. radnla ; and transfers var. Bloxamianus, Colem., to R. 



