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HEREFORDSHIKE RUBI. 



in a heathy wood, at Edwin Ralph, near Bromyard. Perhaps 

 doubtful between this species and H. fissas Lindl., to which Eev. 

 W. Moyle Rogers would refer it. 



R. suLCATus Vest. Exclude R. stdratus, Flora, 518. At a single 

 station in a boggy thicket near Staunton-on-Arrow, and only two or 

 three bushes at present in existence. First found, 189i ; first 

 notice, Journ. Bot. 1892, 111. 



R. PLicATUs W. & N. Flora, 84, 518. Heathy or boggy woods 

 and thickets, very local. Great Doward and Howie Hill, in the 

 south of the county ; Colwall, in the east. Lees, Malvern Botany. 



Var. Bertramh G. Braun. Focke, Sijn. linh. Germ. 117. As 

 the type, and often growing with it ; very local. Cockshot Wood 

 and Howie Hill, in the south ; Edwin Ralph, in the east. /t. Ber- 

 traviii forms a link between Ft. 2^li(^((t2(s W. & N. and //. nitidus 

 W. & N. ; approaching the former in habit and in the shape and 

 toothing of the leaflets, and the latter in having stalked basal 

 leaflets and stamens longer than the styles. It will probably prove 

 pretty widely distributed in Britain. First found, 1887. 



R. AFFiNis W. & N. Very rare; at present only known at a 

 single station, in the north of the county. Rough bank at Gorton, 

 near Presteign, June, 1895. First found, 1895. 



R. iMBRicATUs Hort. Flora, 8(j. Rare and local; almost con- 

 fined to the Wye Valley from Sellack parish downward. Sellack ; 

 Foy; Gannerew. The plant reaches its greatest abundance in the 

 Wye Valley a few miles south of Monmouth, in which district it 

 was discovered by the late Prof. Hort. 



R. cARPiNiFOLius W. & N. Local and rare, chiefly in boggy 

 thickets. Howie Hill, and other stations in the south of the 

 coiinty ; Lyonshall Park, in the north. Unknown in the east, 

 central, and western parts. 



R. iNCURVATUs Bab. Flora, 518. Confined to a limited area in 

 the north and north-west of the county, from Ludlow in the north, 

 to Kington in the north-west ; most frequent in the valley of the 

 Lugg, near Aymestry. 



R. LiNDLEiANUs Lees. Flora, 85. Widely spread throughout 

 the county; rather abundant in some districts, but apparently 

 much less so in the eastern districts. Hybrids in which li. Lind- 

 leianns is strongly marked occasionally occur. 



R. ERYTHRiNus Genev. Flora, 90, as it. Salteri Bab. Rather 

 local and rare ; absent from a large portion of the county, and 

 nowhere so fine and typical as in neighbouring county of Mon- 

 mouth. Unrecorded for the central, north, or western districts; 

 at St. Weonards and two other stations in the south ; most abun- 

 dant and typical in the eastern districts near Malvern. Its 

 distribution stands thus in striking contrast with that of its nearest 

 ally, Pi. Lindleianm. First notice, Journ. Bot. 1890, 20G. 



R. RHAMNiFOLius W. & N. (sp. collect.). Var. cakdiophyllus 

 Muell. & Lef. Flora, 85. Not very abundant, but distributed over 

 nearly the whole area of the county. A form which is strikingly 

 smaller in all its parts occurs at Belmont, near Hereford, and at 

 two other stations in the county. Other varieties of this bramble 



