RUBUS 165 



Native. Septal. Hedges and heaths on sandy soil. Very local and 



rare. Shrub. June-August. 

 First found in Berkshire by Dr. Focke and the author in 1894. 



2. Ock. In a hedge bordering a copse near to the summit of Boar's 

 Hill, where Dr. Focke pointed it out to me. The Rev. W. M. 

 Rogers afterwards found it in another locality on the summit of 

 the same hill, where it is more plentiful. The long cylindric 

 berry, which is a distinguishing character, becomes quite black 

 on ripening. 

 There are no records for the bordering counties. 



B. plicatus, Weihe and Nees, Rubi Germ. 15, t. i (1822). 



R. fruticosus, Linn. Sp. PL 493. See G. Beck, Fl. Nieder-Oster. 

 R. ericetoriim, Bicheno in lit. 



Syme, E. B. iii. 166, t. 445. Bab. Brit. Rubi, 67. Rogers' Key, 2. 

 Native. Ericetal. Heaths, and commons and heathy w^oods. Locally 



plentiful. Shrub. May-September. 

 First record. R. nitidus [not of Weihe and Nees], Mr. Bicheno in 



Smith, Engl. Fl. ii. 405, 1824. 



2. Ock. On the Boar's Hill Range. 



4. Kennet. R. nitidus. Snel sm ore Common. J5ir/iewo, /. c. Crookham 



and Grcenham Commons, in full flower, May, 1893. 



5. Loddon. Sandhurst, quite typical. Bear Wood. Bracknell. 



Long Moor. Risely. Finchampstead. Bagshot. Plentiful on 

 the heaths in this neighbourhood. 

 R. plicatus occurs in Bucks, Surrey, Hants, and W. Gloucestershire. 



R. nitidus, Weihe and Nees, Rubi Germ. 19, t. 4 (1822), Rogers' 

 Key, 3. E. B. Suppl. ed. 3, 75. 



Native. Ericetal. Heaths and commons. Locally plentiful. Shrub. 



July-September. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1886 ; recorded by the Rev. 



W. M. Rogers in Journ. Bot. 156, 1887. 



3. Pang. Bucklebury Common. 



4. Kennet. Suelsmore Common, W. M. Rogers. 'Prof. C. C. Babing- 



ton remarks of the Snelsmore plant that he thinks it goes to 

 R. nitidus, and is the plant which he named rosulentus for Briggs 

 erroneously some years since, while in 1889 Dr. Focke thought 

 it should be placed under R. plicatus.) 



5. Loddon. Bearwood, the author in Rep. of Bot. Exch. Club (^1892 . 



Nearly typical, according to W. M. Rogers. Ambarrow. Sand- 

 hurst. (Dr. Focke thought a plant from Bearwood was near 

 rosulentus. ) 

 R. nitidus occurs in Surrey, Hants, and W. Gloucestershire. 



