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barren shoot the leaflets are cordate acuminate 

 thin, and almost glabrous on both sides, and have 

 a peculiar crenate-dentate outline that I have 

 never remarked upon any other bramble. It grows 

 in great abundance on the marshy and wooded 

 banks of a stream skirting Downside Common, 

 Edford, about a dozen miles south-east of Bristol. 

 The endeavour to ascertain if, the plant had been 

 already described gave a good deal of trouble. Two 

 leading consults suggested that it might, perhaps, 

 be a form of E. scaber, to which, undoubtedly, it is 

 nearly allied. But the true scaber W. and N. (very 

 little known in this country) has leaflets with fine 

 and shallow serration, not crenate-dentate, as in 

 this Edford plant. Later on, I learnt from Mr. 

 Purchas that my specimens were just like some 

 from Norfolk that Dr. Focke had named palliduSj 

 and also that they corresponded well with pi. 29, 

 " E,ubi Germanici." On receiving examples from 

 Sprowston, I saw that the puzzle was solved ; and 

 in a recent letter Mr. Linton informs me that he 

 is quite satisfied that our plant is identical with 

 his. That we should have in the west country a 

 plant but recently observed for the first time in 

 the extreme east of England is certainly remark- 

 able. R. pallidus W. and N. will take a place 

 among the British Rubi; and, as a welcome conse- 

 quence, the term pallidus^ as applied to a slight 

 variety of R. Koehleri^ should be relinquished. 

 This bramble appears to have been mistaken for 

 R. hmnifusus Weihe, and is recorded as such by 

 B/Cv. E,. P. Murray in his " Notes on Somerset 

 Bubi," published in Journ. Bot., 1886. 



