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And then, packing away the numerous specimens obtained during the 

 afternoon, the members of the party cHmbed into the drags, and a pleasant 

 drive of several miles by way of Braxted and Rivenhall, in the gathering dusk 

 of a beautiful summer evening, brought them to Witham station, and an 

 enjoyable excursion to a close. 



Our thanks are due to Mr. E. E. Turner, not only for acting as 

 " Botanical Conductor," but also for revising the lists of plants, and for speci- 

 mens of several of them for the Club's Herbarium. 



TWO MORE EPPING FOREST RUBI. 



By J. T. POWELL. 



Some years ago, when studying the Rubi of Epping Forest, 

 I collected two or three forms which I was unable to name. 1 

 fortunately preserved the specimens, and recently submitted 

 thena to the critical judginent of the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, 

 F.L.S. One turns out to be a very interesting variety of R. 

 pallidus, W. & N., which, after being referred to R. loehvi, Wirtg, 

 by Dr. Focke, the chief continental authority on the genus, has 

 been found to be identical with a Schleswig plant, for which 

 Friderichsen suggested the name leptopetalus, without describing 

 it. In Mr. Roger's Handbook of the British Riibi it is described as 

 a vav. nov. under Friderichsen's name. Its full name is, there- 

 fore, R. pallidus W. &. N. (non Bab.) var. leptopetalus, Rogers. 

 My specimen was collected by the left of the Epping Road, 

 beyond Buckhurst Hill, in August, 1888. Another specimen, 

 which has stood over nearly as long, has been determined as 

 R. argentatus, P. J. Muell. This is decidedly a rare bramble 

 in the Forest, though fairly common in many parts of Britain. 

 I found it between the Roebuck and Warren Hill, and believe I 

 have seen it at High Beach. 



The bramble recorded in the Essex Naturalist, Vol. vi. 

 (1892), p, 80, as R. hystvix var., .was described in the Journal of 

 Botany for 1894, P- 47' under the name R. powellii, nov. sp., or 

 nov. var. In the new Handbook, Mr. Rogers places it under the 

 same name as a subspecies of R. rosacens. It has grown quite 

 true to type in my Cambridge garden from Essex seed. In 

 addition to its forest habitat it has been found on Shooter's Hill, 

 by Major Woolley Dod, R.A., and in Oxfordshire by Mr. G. C. 

 Druce, F.L.S. 



[Mr. Powell's previous papers on the Forest Rubi will be found in E.N., Vol. iii. (1889) 

 p,2o ; (Vol. V i8yo), p. 189, and Vol. vi. (1892), page 80 Ed. 



