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ovate complanate leaves, not gibbous at the base, and the form of 

 the lobule, which is rhomboidal with a sharp outer angle, vertical 

 in position and appressed to the upper lobe as in II. aquiler/ia : 

 the texture is also thinner and more translucent, golden-brown by 

 transmitted liglit ; the male spikes are alternate, lateral, and oblong, 

 consisting of from 10-20 perigonial leaves. The fertile shoots are 

 abundant, but generally abortive, probably from the rarity of the 

 male plant. They are short, lateral, consisting of 3-4 pairs of 

 accrescent leaves, the involucral leaves larger, inflexed at the 

 summit, so as to appear truncate. Recently, when looking over a 

 tuft collected at Killarney by Prof. Lindberg, I thought I had found 

 the colesules, but, on closer examination, the licuhila proved to be 

 intermingled with Fhrcujmicoma Mackaii, to which it bears a curious 

 resemblance, but may be distinguished by the panoicous inflore- 

 scence and the presence of stipules in the latter. 



" lUtduIa Carrintjtonii resembles E. voluta, Tayl., in the form 

 of the male spikes, but in that species the leaves are dull, very 

 pale green, and the lobe broader, undulate, and crossing the stem." 



NOTES ON THE RUBI OF WARWICKSHIRE. 



By James E. Bagnall. 



(Concluded from p. 104). 



26,26*. Rubiis macrophyllus, Weihe, a. umhrosus, Arrh. — In 

 hedges, quarries, heaths, and heathy waysides. Common in the 

 Tame Basin. (1) Sutton Park; Middleton Heath ; Ansley; Bentley 

 Park; Coleshill Heath ; Stonebridge. (2) Rounshill Lane, Kenil- 

 worth ; lanes about Coventry ; Hearsall Common. Two varieties 

 of this occur ; the one has thick and densely felted leaves, as in 

 specimen 26 ; the other having thin leaves, often nearly glabrous 

 beneath, as in specimen 26'''. 



27, 27*. B. macrophijllus, Weihe, /3. viacwphj/Jhis, W. & N. — 

 Hedges, woods, bushy places, and marly banks. Locally abundant. 

 (1) Shelly Lane, near Solihull; Bentley Heath; Shirley Street, 

 near Hockley; Trickley Coppice; Arley, &c. (2) Kenilworth 

 Heath; Dunchurch Road, near Rugby; also at Hill Clump, 

 Honington. F. Toinisend. 



27** is a more glandular form growing in large clumps, and is 

 more a heath-land form than a hedge form; this I find on (2) 

 Kenilworth Heath (1), Bentley Heath, and Shirley. 



28, 28*. /.'. macrophyUm, Weihe, c. SchlectendaUi, W. & N.— 

 In hedges, woods, and damp heath-lands. Locally abundant. 

 (1) Sutton Park, confirmed by Prof. Babington. Baulk Lane, 

 Berkswell; road from Nuneaton to Atherstone. (2) Lanes about 

 Baddesley Clinton. A peculiar glandular form is abundant in 

 Hay woods, Baddesley Clinton. 



29. li. ampHjicatus, Lees. — In woods and hedges. Locally 

 abundant. (1) In lanes about Solihull ; lanes about Coleshill 



