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lished ' Fasciculi,' I found to accord well with his " ohliquus." On 

 receiving additional specimens, and also a living plant which flowered 

 with me last year, I felt more convinced on the subject. The original 

 specimen from Wirtgen is, in an early state, similar to those grown in 

 my garden ; the leaves of tlie latter, however, are much more hairy 

 than in the original specimen, but in all other respects similar, so that 

 I have little doubt of the identity of the two. Mr. Briggs has furnished 

 me with a more complete description of the plants as growing in the 

 neighbourhood of Plymouth, which I add to the foregoing : — " Stem 

 nearly prostrate, often tortuous and branched below, rooting readily, 

 strongly tinged with vinous purple, and often also mottled with white. 

 Leaves 5-nate, leaflets rugose, and somewhat convex above from the 

 edges being bent back. Sepals reflcxed. Petals greenish-white, nar- 

 rowly ovate, notched and jagged. Filaments white. Styles greenish, 

 often when withered, attached to and conspicuous on the ripe di'upes. 

 The drupes are regularly formed, abundantly produced, and of a very 

 fine flavour; they have the peculiarity of not separating readily from 

 the plant, even when quite ripe." I can add but little to this descrip- 

 tion ; but in some of the specimens from Devon, which are in a very 

 mature state, I have observed that the leaves are thick, and clothed 

 with a white tonientum beneath, similar to those of R. Radula when 

 growing in an exposed situation. The plant occurs in many places in 

 the neighbourhood of Plymouth, as about Cann and Eumple Slate 

 Quarries ; in the valley of the Plym in abundance ; at Kiverford ; near 

 the tunnel on the Dartmoor tramway at Leigham ; and in many 

 hedges in the parish of Egg-Buckland, as at Goosevvell, Fursdon, etc. ; 

 in a lane leading to Bickleigh village from the Plymouth and Tavistock 

 road, just beyond the fifth milestone from Plymouth ; between Ro- 

 borough village and Tamertou Foliott ; in Ham Valley, Weston 

 Peverell, within three miles of Plymouth ; on a bank by the road 

 leading from the Plymouth and Plympton road, by Saltram Lodge to 

 Plymstock etc. etc. The above list of localities shows that it is 

 widely diffused in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. 



I have a specimen from Mr. Baker's herbarium, gathered in N. 

 Yorkshire, which I believe to be the same species ; it has, however, a 

 more zigzag rachis than that observed in the original in Wirtgen's 

 Fasc. I have also a specimen gathered by Mr. H. C. Watson near 

 Hook, Surrey, in 1854, which I believe to be the same, and I have 



