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branch (that alone sent) suspiciously stout and curved, but in other respects 

 it seems typical.' The same form had been submitted to Mr. J. Gr. Baker, 

 who pronounced it to be li. mollis. 



I believe none of the above localities yield the true F. villosa, which I have 

 not seen in the county. My plants are placed by M. Cr^pin under i?. tomen- 

 tosa, of which Mr. E. J. Baker has described the Boar's Hill plant as a variety 

 under the name of pseudo-mollis in Journ. Bot. (1892) 341. 



a. villosa is reported from all the bordering counties except Bucks, but my 

 Grloucestershire plant is probably only R. tomentosa, var. pseudo-mollis.] 



R. tomentosa, Smith, Fl. Brit. ii. 539 (1800), Eng. Bot. t. 990. 



Top. Bot. 150. Syme, E. B. ill. 208, t. 467. Nyman, 232. Fl. Oxf. 105. 



Native. Sylvestral. Hedges, thickets, and woods. Local and not 



very common, although widely disti'ibuted. Shrub. June-July. 

 First recorded in Mr. Baxter's MSS. 1820. 



1. Isis. Near Besilsleigh. Dean Court, Boswell (sub nom. R. mollis). 



Apple ton. Cumnor. 



2. Ock. Copse between Childswell Farm and Ctimnor Ilui-st, 



Baxter. Tubney. Cothill. Bagley Wood. Foxcombe Hill, FL 

 Oxf. (as B. mollis). Bagley Wood, Fl. Oxf. Jenny Bunting's Parlour. 

 Pusey. Wittenham, Lowbury. Near Shippon. 



3. Pang. Tilehurst, Tufnail Aldworth. Langley. Compton. 



Streatley. Basildon. Ashampstead. Ashridge Wood, Moulsford. 



4. Kennet. Newbury Wash Common. Eiever Wood. Snelsmore 



Common, and in the wood on the south-western side. Padworth. 

 Hodcott. 



5. Loddon. Bearwood. Waltham. Strathfieldsaye (but in Berk- 



shire). Stubbing's Heath. Near Hurst. 



A large number of varieties of R. tomentosa occur. Tliey include 

 var. Sherardi (Davies, Welsh Botan. 49 (1813), as a species). R. sub- 

 globosa, Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 384 (1824). Catmore. Langley, W. M. Rogers. 

 Tubney. Near Wittenham. 



Var. scABRiuscuLA (Winch, ex Sm. E. B. t. 1896), Baker, in Linn. 

 Soc. Journ. xii. (1869) 217. Kiever Wood. Snelsmore. Ashampstead. 

 Boar's Hill. 



Var. SYLVESTRis (Lindl. Syn. loi (1829% as a species), J. Woods, in 

 Linn. Soc. Trans. (181 7) 202, Compton, roadside hedge, Mr. F. A. 

 Rogers. Boar's Hill, Sister Jane Frances. Tubney. Aldworth. Asli- 

 ridge. Hurst. 



R. tomentosa, Woods (sic), var. 2'>seiido-moUis, E. G. Baker, in Journ. 

 Bot. (1892) 341. R. villosa, H. Bosw, not Linn. R. mollis, Druce, Fl. Oxf. 

 et auct. var., not of Smith. 



This plant occurs in several localities on Boar's Hill, at Cothill. 

 near Tubney, and Besilsleigh and Bagley Wood. I have seen its fruit 

 quite ripe on the ist of September. See Rep. of Bot. Exch. Club, 370, 

 1892, and 447, 1894. 



R. tomentosa occurs in all the bordering counties. 



