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244. B. villicaulis, W. and N. Pilose-stemmed Bramble. 



Native ; in Avoods, hedges, and bushy waste spots. Common and 



widely distributed. 

 c. I. Seaton ; a form approaching leucostachys. 

 D. III. Woodlands. Warleigh Wood. Blaxton. Near Roborough. Beer 



Ferrers. 

 IN. Between Hooe and Staddon. Plyra Valley, at Rumple, &c. 



Common Wood. Plymbridge Road, between Elfordleigh and 



Shaugh. 

 V. Hedge-bank near Weston Mill, in a lane overlooking the left 



bank of the Yealm. Broadall Vale, between Cornwood and 



Dartmoor. 

 VI. Modbury. Ivybridge. 



At many of the stations named the plant represents what Dr. Focke 

 informs me is the true R. mllicaulis of Koehler, common in the east and 

 north of Germany, in Denmark, &c. It has a stiffer, more angular and 

 more prickly barren stem than our ordinary villicaulis : differs likewise 

 in having leaves conspicuously waved at the edges, with glossy surface 

 and few hairs above ; more comimct and more prickly panicle, and white 

 or light pinkish petals. Some years ago I sent Professor Babington a 

 specimen, and he considered it identical Avith the sylvaticus of Leighton, 

 from Almond Park. 



The Bramble which I gave as typical Salteri in my article on Plymouth 

 Rubi in the Journal of Botany (vii. 36) seems not to be the true plant, 

 and it is not calvatus. It may be a variety of mllicaulis. It agrees in 

 many respects with Continental specimens of a plant labelled R. silvaticus, 

 W. and N., sent me by Dr. Focke. I am disposed to think it this. I 

 find R. silvaticus placed by Boreau {Fl. du Centre de la France) between 

 R. mllicaulis and R. calvatus, a position which would seem particularly 

 suitable for the Plymouth plant. In the villicaulis direction it comes 

 nearest the form or variety considered by Focke to be the true plant of 

 Koehler. Its plentiful occurrence about Plymouth and distribution through 

 all the districts have made me very familiar with it. 



h. adscitus, G. Gene v. Mem. Soc. M. and L. viii. S8. Jour. 



Bot. ix. 366-68. 

 In hedges, the borders of woods, and other bushy places. Very 

 conmion. 

 One of our most abundant and widely-distributed brambles, extending 

 from bushy places above the coast to the border of Dartmoor, 



Through an exammation in 1871 of some Continental specimens of R. 

 adscitus from M. Genevier himself, contained in Baker's Herbarium, I 

 was enabled in the Journal of Botany for December of that year to 

 positively assert the identity of it and the Plymouth plant. So similar 



