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and thickets, rare and local. Detected as yet only on the southern 

 borders of the county at several stations in Walford and Hope 

 Mansel parishes, whence it crosses into West Gloucester in the 

 Lea Bailey plantations, Forest of Dean. The plant above-mentioned 

 is named type Koehleri W. & N. on the authority of Dr. Focke, who 

 saw it in situ in 1894, and pronounced it without hesitation to be 

 identical with the typical It. Koehleri of Continental Europe. At 

 the same time it must be observed that our plant is a far more 

 slender, less armed form than any of those which English batolo- 

 gists had been accustomed to name U. Koehleri. First found in 1891. 



Var. b. PALLiDus Bab. Flora, 100. Widely spread in Hereford- 

 shire, as in Britain generally. U. pallidus Bab. (with 11. Lei/anus 

 Rogers and 11. aryentatus P. J. Muell. var. clivicola) is one of the 

 species flourishing at the greatest altitude above the sea, rising, in 

 Breconshire at least, to about 1300 ft. 



Var. c. coGNATUS (N. E. Br.). Flora, 102 (under IL Lejemiei 

 W.) ; 521 (as U. Bloxamii Lees). In woods and thickets, locally 

 abundant. Spread over the south and parts of the central and 

 eastern districts ; most abundant in Haywood Forest and the woods 

 between Aconbury and Ross ; but apparently not occurring to the 

 north of Hereford. The plants brought together here are in my 

 judgment all referrible to a single species ; but I wish to state that 

 I am alone responsible for this arrangement, which I have ventured 

 to make after watching them growing for about twenty years. They 

 have long been subjects of much controversy, and have lately been 

 referred by Dr. Focke partly to 11. fuscus, partly to 11. Koehleri, and 

 by Rev. W. M. Rogers partly to //. fuscus, partly to U. cognatus. 

 The plants in question are very constant in general aspect, and in 

 the shape of the leaves and of the panicle, but vary greatly in the 

 amount, though not so much in the character of the armature, both 

 of the stem and rachis. They are not precisely identical with the 

 Surrey plant for which the name of //. coi/natus was first coined by 

 Mr. Brown. First notice, Jouni. Bot. 1895, 102. 



R. Marshall: Focke & Rogers. In woods and thickets ; not 

 common (at least in a typical state). Plants referred to 11. Marshalli 

 by Rev. W. M. Rogers, and representing the species exceedingly 

 well, have been found in Hope Mansel parish in the south, and at 

 more than one station in the north and west. Many other plants, 

 at present omitted as doubtful, will probably come to be ranged 

 under R. Marshalli when its limits are better understood. First 

 notice, Journ. Bot. 1895, 103. 



R. FuscoATER Wcihe. Flora, 101. Woods and thickets, very 

 rare. Abundantly at a single station in the south of the county, in 

 plantations and thickets at Welsh Newton. The late Prof. Babiugton 

 uniformly named this Welsh Newton plant R./usco-ater MV. ; and 

 Rev. W. M. Rogers concurs in this identification. First record, 

 Bot. Exch. Club Rep. 1880, 30. 



R. viRiDis Kalt. In woods ; very rare. Known at present at a 

 single station in the north-west of Herefordshire, at Winforton. 

 Found also by me in the same year at a single station in Brecon- 

 shire (Glyn Tarell). First found in 1895. 



