260 39. R. BALFOURIANUS. 



living plant that the stamens and styles can be examined 

 satisfactorily. I call the styles "flesh-coloured;" Dr 

 Johnston said "yellowish-green changing to pink and 

 brown," which differs perhaps more in appearance than 

 reality from my terminology, Mr Bloxam's plant from 

 Warwickshire " always grows in shaded hedges " and is 

 "averse to the sun," which .may account for its variation from 

 the more usual forms of this very variable species. 



It is possible that the R. tilicefolius of Weihe (in >S);r. 

 Syst. ii. 529 and D. C. Prod. 562), published in 1825, may 

 be this species, and if so, Bloxam's name would fall. A 

 foreign specimen, given with that name but no locality to 

 Mr Borrer by Mr Woods, is only the top of a panicle, but 

 seems, as far as we can judge from such imperfect materials, 

 to be /t. Balfourianus. Without further and more con- 

 clusive evidence of their identity, we should not be justified 

 in combining our plant with the R. tilicefolius which 

 Reichenbach tells us is his E. corylifolius p pilosus (FL 

 Excurs. 608) and the R. hirsutus of Presl. (Bel. Frag. 221). 

 It is also the R. dumetorum (3 pilosus of the Ruhi 

 Germanici, 99. 



The R. magnificus (Miill. !) of which I have not seen 

 any description, is very like our R. Bcdfourianus, if not 

 identical with it. Genevier states that it is the R. Lejeunii 

 (Gen. et Godr.), and the R. Bloxamii (Bor.). Specimens 

 from Yorkshire named R. rivalis by M. Genevier I also place 

 here. 



Habitat. — Hedges. July, August. 



Area.—\ . 3 4 5 ... 9 10 . 12 . 14 21. 



Localities. — i. Kingston, S. Dev. (Briggs!); by the 

 canal at Claverton, N. Som. — iii. Mangrove Lane and 

 Essendon, Herts. ; Red Hill and Capel (Borr. !), between 

 Ditton Marsh and Claygate, Sm-r. ; Sheen, Berks (Bicheno); 

 Woodend, Middl. (Hind); Tonbridge Wells, W, Kent.— 



