l8o EOSACEAE 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods and heathy places, on sandy soils. Local, 



but abundant where it occurs. Shrub. July-August. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1886. 



2. Ock. As a phmt with very glaucous barren stems, abundant and 

 widely distributed on the north and soutli- western sides of 

 Boar's Hill. An allied form with less glandular stem occurs at 

 Tubney. 



4. Kennet. Theale. 



R. scaber occurs in Oxfordshire on Shotover Hill, but is not recorded 

 for the other bordering counties. 



B. fiiscus, Weihe & Nees, I.e. i. 681 & Eubi Germ. t. 27 (1826). 



Eogers' Key, 31. 



Native. Dry woods and heathy places. Local. Shrub. July- August. 



First found in Bagley Wood by the Rev. A. Bloxam, Herb. Ox/. 1840. 



1. Isis. Wytham Wood. 



2. Ock. Bagley Wood, Bloxam. A less glandular form is found in 



Hen Wood, and a form which was referred by Prof. Babington 

 to R. Reuteri on Boar's Hill. In a wood between Wittenham 

 and Didcot. 



5. Loddon. Near Twyford. (A form also occurs, which the Rev. 



W. M. Rogers says, appears to be what. Dr. Focke calls R. macro- 

 stachys, P.J. Muell. in Flora (^1858% 150, and is kept as a distinct 

 species in Index Kewensis.) 

 R. fuscus is recorded for Wilts, Oxfordshire, and W. Gloucestershire. 



R. paliidus, Weihe & Nees, 1. c, i. 682 & Rubi Germ. t. 29 (i826\ 



E. B. Suppl. ed. 3, 102. Rogers* Key, 32. 



Native. Septal. Hedges on sandy soil. Very local. Shrub. Julj-- 



September. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1896. 



3. Pang. In hedges between Hermitage and Frilsham, but nearer 



to the former place. 

 R. paliidus is recorded for Hants, and with some doubt for Oxford- 

 shire. 



[E. LoxGiTHYRSiGER, Lecs, ex Bab. in Journ. Bot. (1878) 177. Bab. Brit. Rubi, 

 231. 



R. pyramidalis, Bab. Man. Bx'it. Bot. ed. 3, loi (1851), not of Kaltenbach, 

 recorded for W. Gloucestershire only.] 



R. foliosiis, Weihe & Nees, 1. c. i. 682 & Rubi Germ. t. 28. 



Rogers' Key, 34. 



R. Guenteri, Bab. not R. Guentheri of Weihe & Nees. R. /lexuosus, P. J. 



Muell. & Lefev. in Pollichia (1859) 240, not of Lejeune. 

 E. B. Suppl. ed. 3, 113. Fl. Oxf. 99. Syme, E. B. iii. 190. 



