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SOUTH ESSEX BRAMBLES. 



By C. E. BRITTON. 



DURING the latter part of the summer of 1903, I visited 

 Warley Common and neighbourhood on two occasions 

 for the purpose of collecting and observing brambles, and paid 

 one similar visit to Danbury Common. Examples of all the 

 various kinds of brambles gathered on these occasions, were 

 included in the very large packet of Riihiis specimens, which 

 I sent during the autumn to the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S. 

 for examination. I am very much indebted to him for his great 

 kindness in confirming my suggested names for some, and in 

 furnishing names for others that were beyond me, and I am 

 further indebted to him for the information that the following 

 species and varieties of Ruhus are "new records" for the 

 Watsonian Vice-county, 18 South Essex: — Rubus nitidus 

 Wh. and N. ; R. imbricatus, Hort var. londinensis Rogers ; 

 R. carpinifolius, Wh. and N. ; R. dumnoniensis, Bab.; 

 R. pubescens Weihe] var. siihinevmis, Rogers ; R. angli- 

 canus, Rogers; R. fuscus, Wh. and N. var. nutans, Rogers; 

 R. adornatus, P. J. Muell; R. dumetorum, Wh. and N. 

 var. hritannicus (Rogers) ; R. balfourianus, Blox. 



In the following lists an asterisk denotes that a dried 

 specimen of the plant in question from the locality mentioned 

 has been seen by Mr. Rogers. 



Warley Common'. Rubus idoeus, L., R. lindleianus,-- Lees ; 

 R. rhamnifolius W4i. & N. ; R. pulcherrimus, ■' Neum. ; 

 R. selmeri Lindeb. ; R. rusticanus Merc. ; R. pubescens 

 Weihe var. suhinevmis* Rogers (also at Childerditch") ; R. 

 sprengelii " W^eihe. Besides the usual pink-flowered form of 

 this, there also occurs at Warley Common, a form " with white 

 flowers which Mr. Rogers notes is a rare one. R. pyramidalis''' 

 Kalt. ; R. leucostachys Schleich. ; R. anglicanus ''' 

 Rogers ; (" a form one step towards type R. radula Weihe," 

 Rogers); R. fuscus Wh. and N. var. nutans-'' Rogers; R. 

 folio sus '■' Wh. and N. ; R. infecundus "^^ Rogers (also at 

 Great Warley Street"); R. dumetorum, Wh. and N. ; 

 R. balfourianus,''' Blox. 



On Tylers Conunon very few kinds of brambles grow. Rubus 

 rusticanus Merc, and R. dumetorum Wh. and N. are plentiful, 



