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sepals ascend and clasp the fruit. It varies in Herefordshire with 

 white or pink petals ; but the form {E. conspicuns Auct.) bearing 

 handsome deep red flowers is rare in the county. 



Var. b. GYMNosTACHYs (Genev.). Kough banks and woods, rare. 

 Walford and Bishopswood in the south ; first discovered by Rev. 

 W. M. Rogers in 1891. Set of British Rubi, 1892-1895 (No. 14). 

 First notice, Journ. Bot. 1895, 80. 



Var. c. ANCiUSTiFOLius Rogers. See Flora, 90. Woods and 

 hedges ; locally abundant on the Doward Hills in the south, 

 occurring both in the centre and north of the county. This is a 

 very well marked variety in Herefordshire. First notice, Journ. 

 Bot. 1895, 80. 



R. cuEviDENs A. Ley. See Flora, 90, 91 (under B. Salteri Bab.) ; 

 94, 95 (under B. Schlechtendalii W.). Woods and thickets, not in 

 hedges, rather rare. Known in about eight localities in the south, 

 centre, and west of the county. Sellack ; Aconbury ; Belmont ; 

 Dinmore. 



R. MUCRONATUS Blox. Flora, 95 {ex parte). Widely distributed 

 in woods and wood-borders, but rather scarce. Noticed in all ex- 

 cept the western districts of the county. Carey and Caplar Woods 

 in the south, Belmont in the centre, Whitney in the north. Two, 

 if not three, strains of this bramble are found in Herefordshire : — 

 (1) a plant with long-stalked single floAvers in the panicle, ap- 

 proaching B. glahratus Bab. ; (2) a plant with leaves nearly all 

 ternate, approaching B. pulcherrbnus Neum. ; (3) a plant with thick, 

 densely woolly leaves, approaching B. leucostachys Schleich. I have, 

 however, the authority of Rev. W. M. Rogers for uniting all these 

 plants under B. ymicroyiatus Blox. 



R. Gelertii Frider. var. criniger Linton. In woods, rare. 

 Two stations are known for this bramble : Little Doward in the 

 south, Lingen in the north of the county, in both of which the 

 name rests on the authority of Rev. W. M. Rogers. It will doubt- 

 less be found at other places. First found, 1892 ; first notice, 

 Journ. Bot. 1895, 81. 



R. ANGLosAxoNicus Gelert. Flora, 94 (under B. macrophyllus 

 W.). Thickets and open woods. The type seems to be a rare 

 plant in Herefordshire, the only stations yet known being two or 

 three in the south, near Ross. 



Var. b. RADULOiDES Rogers. Rare; one station in the south 

 (Chase Wood, near Ross), one in the east (Westhide Wood). 



Var. c. SETULOsus Rogers. Flora, 100 (as B. Koehleri W. var. 

 infestus). Widely distributed and locally abundant, especially in 

 the south and south-west of the county. Known at a single station 

 in each of the central, north, and west divisions, this plant 

 becomes a marked feature of the bramble vegetation in some of the 

 hilly woods of the Ross district, whence it follows the Monmouth- 

 shire portion of the Wye Valley in great abundance as far as 

 Tintern. It is a very marked plant, attracting attention by its 

 bright red stems and exaggerated armature, and standing quite 

 midway between anylosaxonicus and forms of Koehleri, or even in- 

 festus W. 



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