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HEREFORDSHIRE RUBI. 



By the Rev. Augustin Ley. 



(Concluded from p. 162.) 



R. Radula (sp. collect.), var. a. Radula W. Flora, 99, 522. 

 Woods and thickets, rare. At Welsh Newton, at Gorstley, and at 

 three or four other localities in the south of the county ; not seen 

 elsewhere. 



Var. b. ANGLicANUS Rogers. Flora, 96 (under R. vnicronulatm 

 Blox.), 99 (as B. Radula W.). Woods and thickets, rare. Carey 

 Wood, Brockhampton, and at one or two other stations scattered 

 over the south of the county ; not seen elsewhere. First record, 

 Journ. Hot. 1895, 82. 



Var. c. ECHiNAToiDEs Rogers. Still more rare than the last ? 

 At Walford {teste Rogers), and at Gorstley in the south. Unknown 

 elsewhere. 



It is curious that all the above forms of R. Radula should be 

 confined to a few stations in the south of the county. 



Var. d. SERTiFLORUs P. J. Muell. Flora, 94 (under R. macro- 

 phijllm W.), 522. In woods ; locally abundant. From Penyard 

 Park Wood, Ross, ranging through nearly all the large woods 

 northwards to Rotherwas Park Wood in the centre, and in many of 

 them abundantly. At a single station at Shucknell Hill in the east. 



R. regillus, n. sp. Flora, 522 (as R. debilis Boul.). Stem 

 bluntly angled, thick and branched below, forming a low arch, 

 yellow-green or pink-green in exposure, hairy, glaucous, with 

 slender, declining, rather scattered and unequal prickles, from 

 enlarged bases, numerous acicles and tinequal stalked glands, venj 

 leafy. Leaves 3-5nate-pedate, leajiets large, green on both sides, 

 upper surface nearly smooth, under slightly hairy. Serration 

 coarse and uneven. Tei-minal leaflet with short stalk, oblong, flat, 

 sxiddenhj contracting into a conspicuous acuuien ; lateral similar, 

 rather smaller, nearly sessile. Panicle lax, hairy, with declining 

 prickles, and stalked glands more numerous upwards, leafy nearly 

 to the top, with short, ascending, racemose branches below, and a 

 nearly racemose top. Panicle-leaves ternate, similar to those of 

 the stem. Sepals ovate-acuminate, with long hair externally, 

 reflexed in flower and fruit. Petals white, obovate, ciliate ; stamens 

 white, exceeding the green styles ; fruit well-formed. Woods and 

 hedges. Abundant in Queen's Wood and Linton Wood on the 

 south-east borders of Herefordshire ; Haywood, West Gloucester. 

 The above localities all adjoin, and form a large woodland area, in 

 which the plant grows at intervals, both in woods and hedges, over 

 an area of at least three square miles. See the remarks of Rev. 

 W. M. Rogers on this bramble in Journ. Bot. 1892, 302, 308, under 

 R. cognatus N. E. Br. The mostly ternate leaves, with nearly 

 equal leaflets, the narrow lax panicle, and the yellow-green of the 

 whole plant are conspicuous features. 



R. PODOPHYLLUS P. J. Muell. In heathy woods ; rare ? Dis- 

 covered last year in a hilly wood, Hope Mansel, on the southern 



