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with Babington's description of R. Schleicheri. At the foot of the 

 Wynd Cliff there is a form of R. corylifolius, with few and compara- 

 tively small prickles, and generally only three very broad and over- 

 lapping leafits. I noticed, at Farnborough, a plant with a similar ge- 

 neral habit, but more prickly, and with five, or sometimes seven broad 

 overlapping leafits. 



I cannot say that in this investigation I have advanced much in 

 forming a conception of the distinct habit of the Rubi, or of connect- 

 ing it with character ; on the contrary, like the green track over the 

 moors described by Scott, I have sometimes lost, on a nearer approach, 

 distinctions which seemed to be sufficiently evident at a distance : 

 yet it first seems essential. To have to examine in detail every 

 bramble one meets with, before we can form an opinion of the species, 

 requires a patience almost superhuman, and without some definite 

 notion of habit, this is unavoidable. R. discolor is generally very 

 distinguishable, yet about Newport I could not always separate it in 

 its general appearance from R. rhamnifolius. R. rhamnifolius is 

 usually in the form sylvaticus, and not always readily told from R. 

 leucostachys. In Haddock Wood, near Monmouth, I observed two 

 shoots growing side by side, in form, colour, and general appearance 

 exactly alike. On examination, one belonged to R. rhamnifolius, 

 while the multitude of setae on the other obliged me to refer it to R. 

 rudis. The flowers in the bush seemed all to belong to one species, 

 and as the panicle was setigerous and the flowers white, I concluded 

 them to belong to R. rudis. In the second form of leucostachys, as 

 exhibited at Pont-nedd-vechan, there is a sharpness in all the parts 

 which catches the eye, and the calyx is spreading and star-like imme- 

 diately after flowering, though it seems to become reflexed in the fruit, 

 but these appearances were less evident in other places. I have 

 thought that I knew R. Koehleri, but some of its varieties have in a 

 general view so close a resemblance to some of those of R. Radula, 

 and perhaps to some other setigerous species, that I have learnt to 

 doubt my knowledge. In R. corylifolius the degree of overlapping in 

 the leafits varies very much, yet it must be reckoned one of our best 

 marked species. 



Beyond Rubus I have little to say. CEnanthe Lachenalii is the 

 usual CEnanthe of the marshes in these parts, and not O. pimpinelli- 

 folia. The Statice of the rocks is Dodartii. In Armeria maritima 

 the tube of the calyx is not " uniformly hairy," but there is an inter- 

 mediate line of hairs between the nerves ; this I have observed also in 

 Sussex. Foedia Auricula grows in Gower, near Norton, and more 

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