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which I have duly indicated, the following list is a record of my 

 own observations, and from every station enumerated I have one 

 or more specimens of the plants mentioned in my herbarium. 



1. Paibus Idmis, L. — In woods, copses, hedges, and damp way- 

 sides. Locally abundant. (Ij Abundant in Sutton Park; lanes 

 and woods about Middleton ; Coleshill pool and bog, Marston 

 Green; near Hamptou-in-Arden; lanes aboutPackwood. (2) Woods 

 near Rugby ; Allesley ; Kingswood ; Honily, Woodloes. In most 

 of these stations abundant, and as wild apparently as the com- 

 monest bramble. 



2. This is a variety having a nearly prostrate habit, and ter- 

 nate leaves on the barren stem, growing abundantly on marly 

 banks near Meriden Shafts, in the lane leading to Fillongley. 



3. Pi,. Idaus, L., /j. Leesii, Bab. — In marshy places, very rare. 

 (2) In a marshy thicket at The Woodloes, near Warwick. If this 

 plant is the true Ft. Leesii it does not deserve a higher rank than 

 that of a form, as it may be readily traced here to the tj^pical form. 

 The fruit appears to be abortive. This plant is scarcely like that 

 I saw in Mr. Bloxam's garden at Twycross, grown from theorio-inal 

 R. Leesii, but it is possible that cultivation may have made Mr. 

 Bloxam's plant more robust in habit. 



4. R. suberectus, Anderson. — In damp woods and by pools. 

 Very rare. (1) The specimen sent is from Olton pool, near Soh- 

 hull, and was named by Mr. J. G. Baker in 1871 as typical 

 suberectus. I also find it in a wood near Solihull ; in Arley Wood ; 

 and in Ironestone Wood, near Oldbury. (2) Mr. Bromwich sent 

 specimens to the Exchange Club in 1867, from Clodyland Wood, 

 near Honily. I have also seen in Haywoods a bramble I take to 

 be this variety. 



5. R.Jissus, Lindl. — In damp woods and boggy heath lands. 

 Very rare. Confined, I think, to the Tame Basin. (1) In Sutton 

 Park it occurs in abundance both in woods and in boggy places. 

 Very characteristic in Chelmsley AVood, but sparsely represented. 

 It also occurs in Trickley Coppice, Middleton, and in Cut Throat 

 Coppice, SolihuU. 



6. R. plicatus, W. & N. — In woods and on heath-lands ; rare, 

 "but abundant where it does occur, (1) Heath-lands and woods in 

 Sutton Park ; heathy waysides between Stonebridge and Castle 

 Bromwich. Eeported in 'British Rubi,' p. 67, from Baxterley 

 Common and Bentley Wood. I have never been able to find it in 

 either locality. Apparently restricted to the Tame Basin. Prof. 

 Babington pronounces the specimen sent to be the variety 

 roside7itus. 



7. R. affinis, W. & N. — In woods and on heath-lands. Rather 

 rare. (1) In several places in Sutton Park. In lanes near Coles- 

 hill Pool and Marston Green ; lanes near Hampton-in-Arden. 

 The plant from Sutton Park was confirmed by Prof. Babington in 

 1871. (2) Abundant in the road from Rugby to Dunchurch, 1880. 

 A bramble having a strong afiinity to this is abundant on Coleshill 

 Heath. 



