184 ROSACEAE 



Eev. W. M. Bogers. Silchester, 1886. ('Nearer the type than 

 other forms named so by British botanists,' Dr. Focke.) 

 It also occurs in Oxfordshire near Crowell. 



The plants from Cold Ash Common were named saxicolus by Prof. 

 Babington, but the Rev. W. M. Rogers now thinks that they are 

 R. pallidus, Bab., not of W. & N. 



[R. Bellardi, Weilie & Nees, l.c. i. 688 (1825). Rubi Germ. t. 44. 



jR. dentatiis, Blox. R. glandulosus, auct. var. B. hybrldus, auct. var. 



The plant from Boar's Hill, so named for me by Prof. Babington, proves to 

 be a form of R. scaber. The plant named R. dentatus for the Eev. W. M. Rogers 

 by Prof. Babington from Cold Ash Common, in Journ. Bot. (1887; 340, 

 Mr. Rogers now ' has an impression may have been a foliosus hybrid.' 



R. Bellardi has been recorded for Hants, Surrey, and Oxfordshire.] 



R. Mrtus, Walds. & Kit. PI. Rar. Hung. ii. 150 (1805). Rogers' Key, 44. 



R. glandulosus, Bell. var. hirtus; Bab. Brit. Rubi, 250 (1869). E. B. 

 Suppl. ed. 3, 117. Weihe & Nees, Rubi Germ. t. 43 (1827). 

 Nyman, 220. 

 Native. Heaths and heathy woods. Shrub. July-September. 



The occurrence of this plant in Berkshire is not certainly ascertained. 

 My plant from Boar's Hill, which was named by Prof. Babington 

 R. hirtus, var. rotundifoHus, is R. rosaceus, var. bercheriensis. The Rev. W. M. 

 Rogers informs me that he cannot now feel sure, in the absence of 

 specimens, whether the plants from Langlcy Wood, Sandy Lane, 

 Fence Wood in the Pang district, and from Beedon Wood and Copse 

 near Snelsmore Common, which he recorded as R. hirtus in Journ. Bot. 

 (1887), are really R. hirtus. He thinks the plant must have been veiy 

 like the Devon rotundifoHus (or an allied form), which was the only 

 form of hirtus which he then knew. 



Of a plant which I gathered very late in the season of 1895 near 

 Enborne, the Rev. W. M. Rogers says ' It is, I think, a form of the hirtus 

 group,' and another, w^hich is common in a copse near the brickyards 

 on the Kimmeridge Clay on Boar's Hill, he says ' may belong to 

 R. hirtus ' ; but the specimens were gathered late in September, so that 

 we must wait for another season before being positive. 



R. rosaceus, var, bercheriensis, approaches R. hirtus in some particulars, 

 and, as we have seen, has been mistaken for it. 



R. hiiius has been recorded for all the bordering counties. 



[R. BKiTAKNicus, Rogcrs, in Journ. Bot. (1894) 49, occurs in Surrey.] 



R. dumetorum, Weihe & Nees, in Boenn. Prod. Fl. IMonast. 153 (1824). 

 Rubi Germ. t. 45. Rogers' Key, 47. Nyman, 221. 



Native. Hedges. Locally abundant, occurring in all tlie districts, 

 not only on sandy, but also on stiff clay soils. Shrub. June- 

 September. 



