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pedicels, and calyx with rather numerous, slender, unequal, stalked 

 glands, far exceediug the grey felt and short hair. Petals white ; 

 stamens white; styles short, green. Sepals ovate-acuminate, 

 spreading, externally (jrcen, with white margins ; points rising 

 round the fruit, which is glohular and acid. Locality. — Woods 

 on the Beacon Hill near Trelleck, Monmouthshire, abundantly. 



This bramble was named by Dr. Focke, from dried specimens, 

 R. my7-ic(B Focke, var. virescens G. Braun, and was sent out as such 

 in Set of British Eubi, 1892-1895 (No. 60) ; in 1894, however, on 

 seeing the plant growing. Dr. Focke withdrew the name. Dis- 

 tinctive features are the curiously suberect habit and sepals recalling 

 the Suberect group, in conjunction with a ylandidar panicle ; and 

 the gradually acuminate leaflets, green on both sides. The plant 

 above described occupies a large area of woodland (some three 

 square miles) on Beacon Hill, Monmouthshire. On the adjoining 

 heath occurs what seems to be a form of the same bramble with 

 leaves much more deeply cut and plicate, and with the glands of 

 the panicle-rachis fewer and subsessile. A hybrid also occurs on the 

 heath between the last-named plant and (probably) R. Sprengelii W. 



R. MicANS Gren. & Godr. Flora, 91, 519 (as R. adscitus Genev.). 

 Widely distributed, but not very common. In thickets and open 

 ground, not in hedges. Sellack and other localities in the south ; 

 Lyonshall in the north of the county ; unrecorded from the eastern 

 and central districts. 



R. HiRTiFOLius Muell. & Wirtg. Flora, 92 (under 7?. adscitus 

 Genev.). In woods and thickets, rare and local. At a single station 

 in the south (Hope Mausel), and a single station in the north of the 

 county (Ludlow). Very abundant at its northern station over 

 several miles of woodland and rough open ground, and extending 

 into Shropshire. In the southern station the main colony of the 

 plant is in West Gloucester, where it abounds in heathy plantations 

 on Mitcheldean Meend. The Herefordshire plant was determined as 

 R. hirtifolins Muell. & Wirtg. by Dr. Focke in 1892, but it was not 

 until the totally different plant of the Plymouth neighbourhood was 

 found not to be Mueller & Wirtgen's bramble that it was open for 

 us to accept Dr. Focke's determination with regard to the Here- 

 fordshire bramble. First record, Journ. Rot. 1895, 80. 



R. PYRAMiDALis Kalt. Flora, 91 (as R. villicaulis W. & N.). 

 Abundant throughout Herefordshire as a woodland plant. The 

 Hertfordshire plant is not typical R. pyramidalis Kalt., which 

 hardly occurs in the county, but a variety with longer panicle, 

 larger leaflets, and a freer growth than usual. 



Var. EGLANDULOSA. The variety here in view is a handsome 

 plant, strikingly different in aspect from ordinary Herefordshire 

 R. pyramidalis, and equally so from the type. In abundance in 

 Cowieigh Park, Malvern, in the east, and Shirl Wood, Eardisland, 

 in the north of the county. 



E. LEucosTACHYs Schlcich. Flora, 88. Very abundant almost 

 throughout Herefordshire, and varying extremely ; the most remark- 

 able varietal forms being (1) those in which the stem and rachis 

 bear numerous acicles and stalked glands ; (2) another in which the 



