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HEEEFORDSHIEE EUBI. 

 By the Rev. Augustin Ley.* 



In this Journal for 1894 (pp. 207-212) were recorded some plants 

 which had been observed in Herefordshire since the publication of 

 the Flora of Herefordshire in 1889. From these tlie Rubi were 

 exchided ; the abundant fresh material which had accrued and still 

 was accruing, the new light which was being thrown on old forms, 

 and tlie changes in arrangement and nomenclature in progress in 

 this genus, rendering it imperative to postpone any attempt to deal 

 with it. 



The present paper proposes to supply this omission. Students 

 of the genus will be prepared to find some obscurities and un- 

 certainties still remaining ; but enough appears now to be known, 

 and that with sufficient accuracy, to justify its publication ; to 

 which the new edition of the London Cataloi/ue, together with the 

 "Notes" of Rev. W. Moyle Rogers upon it [Journ. Bot. 1895, 

 45, 77, 109), furnish an additional incentive. 



In 1894 Dr. Focke, the well-known authority upon this genus, 

 visited England, and spent a few days in Herefordshire. His visit 

 cleared up several obscurities, and brought to light more than one 

 fresh species in the county. We wish to acknowledge the uniform 

 readiness with which he placed his great knowledge at our service; 

 and not less that of Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, without which this 

 paper could never have been attempted. 



In investigating this genus in Herefordshire, we have been 

 compelled m one or two cases to adopt new names, and draw up 

 new descriptions ; but this has in no case been done without the 

 plant in question having been studied for a series of years, nor 

 without exhausting all the available means of ascertaining whether 

 it had been previously named and described on the Continent. The 

 same may be said of a Monmouthshire form, of which we have 

 taken this opportunity of publishing a description. 



Where no other reference is given, the present paper is the first 

 record for a species. 



RuBUS iD^us L. Flora of Herefordshire, 84, 517. Native in 

 woods and thickets, and widely distributed in all districts of the 

 county. A variety with fruit yellow-white when ripe occurs at 

 Shobdon Marsh in the north of the county, and at Westhide in 

 the east. 



Var. b. oBTUsiFOLius Willd. Very rare, and noticed only at a 

 single station. Hedge and garden border near a cottage, Sellack, 

 near Ross; 1892 and subsequent years. First notice, Journ. Bot. 

 1895, 40. The locality is one which I pass daily ; and I think it 

 impossible that this hybrid could have escaped detection, had it 

 existed there for any length of time previously to 1892. 



R. suberectus And. Flora, 517. Abundant at a single station 



* Published with the concurrence of the Rev. W. H. Purchas* 



