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The commonest hedge-row Bramble, occurring close to the town of 

 Plymouth ; and, lookmg at the country generally, probably the most 

 frequent species, though in certain wooded and moory tracts less plentiful 

 than some others. The flowers are sometimes very handsome, from the 

 petals being of a beautiful bright pink. The fruit is produced until frost 

 sets in. It differs considerably in taste from that of most, if not from 

 that of all our other species : bemg comparatively dry and poorly 

 flavoured. A curious Bramble, with very deeply cut leaves, which was 

 probably either a variety of this or of B. rhamnifolius, grew some years 

 ago on a bank at the head of Crown Hill, Knackersknowle, but it has 

 since been destroyed by alterations consequent on the erection of Crown 

 Hill Fort. It was mentioned as ^ Eubus laciniatus, 'Willd.,' by the late 

 Mr. Alexander Irvine, in Phytol. v. N.S. 381, I havmg sent him a speci- 

 men from the locality. I have now reason to suspect that this Bramble 

 Avas originally introduced by a nurseryman, who at one time rented a plot 

 of ground adjoining the bank where it occurred. 



Some forms of B. discolor come very near B. leucostachys^ Sm. 



240. R. thyrsoideus, Wimm. Thyrsios-flowered Bramble. 



Native ; in hedges and thickets. Rare. July, August. 

 c. I. Hedge by the turnpike road at Sheviock. The plant here differs 

 greatly from the typical thyrsoideus, agreeing well Avitli a 

 specimen from ]Mr. Jas. Bagnall, collected at Tardebig, A\"or- 

 cestershire, labelled thyrsoideus^ Avith the note, "Professor 

 Babington says, 'very near the macroacanthus form of the 

 Rev. A. Bloxam.'" 

 II. Kingsmill. This agrees fairly with a specimen of the thyrsoideus 

 'cult. Hort. Kew.' 

 D. III. Waste spot by the St. Budeaux and Tamerton Foliot Road, near 

 Budshead. Between Knackersknowle and Tamerton Foliot. 

 Hedge between Tamerton Foliot and Roborough Down : a form 

 with remarkably narrow-pointed leaflets, differmg greatly from 

 the plants at the other stations and many labelled thyrsoidtus 

 by British botanists. Between Mutley and Burleigh. 

 V. Corn wood, by a hedge very near the railway station. 

 It is not without some hesitation that I have assigned to thyrsoideus 

 all the plants referred to above. The one from ' hedge between Tamerton 

 Foliot and Roborough Down ' I forwarded to Dr. Focke some years ago, 

 and he pronounced it ' really ' the German thyrsoideus. It agrees capit- 

 ally with a Rubus from Wirtgen {Herb. Bub. Blienan., ed. 2. fasc. iii.), 

 in Baker's collection, labelled ' B. hypomcdlos, Miill. and Wirtg. Herb. 

 B\d)or. ed. 1 fasc. v. No. 121. Dem B. coarctus, Miill {B. thyrsoideus, 

 Wimm.).' The late Rev. A. Bloxam would not, however, allow that the 

 Plymouth plant is thyrsoideus. Comparing it with that from District i., 

 the differences are certainly startling. 



