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have myself noticed some quantity of it in a lane leading from Castle 

 Bar, near Ealing, to Twyford, Middlesex. 



Subdiv. ii. Rubi Glandulosi. 



R. Guntheri, Weihe, &. ihyrsijlorus. Stem angular, sulcate, with 

 small unequal prickles, and many setae, and pale aciculi ; leaves qui- 

 nate, hairy ; panicle very long, flexuose, with distant, axillary, race- 

 mose, somewhat spreading branches, the upper ones densely crowded, 

 and overtopping the central flower ; peduncles and calyces weakly 

 armed, but covered with spreading hairs, extending beyond the very 

 numerous setae. In upland thickets, rare. Between Ilfracombe and 

 Hele, Devonshire. Monmouthshire, Mr. Bahington. 



This thyrsifloral variety of R. Guntheri is a magnificent bramble, 

 and seems of rare occurrence in this country. It has a very rough 

 appearance, and, with its spreading, clustered branches, presents a 

 striking difference to the pyramidal form of R. Menkii, though its 

 panicle is equally long. 1 described this variety as R. thyrsi florus in 

 Steele's ' Handbook' (1847), but am now convinced it belongs to R. 

 Guntheri. The latter, though local, has an extensive range, as I have 

 gathered it in Devon, and received it from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. 

 It is found, also, in Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. 

 Herts, Rer. VV. H. Coleman. 



R. Menkii, W. & N. Stem prostrate, angular, closely covered with 

 few, spreading hairs, many setae, and short aciculi ; the prickles dis- 

 tant, slender, unequal ; leaves mostly ternate, with scattered, accum- 

 bent hairs above, paler, with ciliated ribs, beneath ; the central leaflet 

 obovate, acuminate, sharply senate ; rachis densely hairy, concealing 

 the aciculi and setae ; panicle racemose, leafy, gray with weak, en- 

 tangled hairs, among which are numerous purple setae, and a few weak, 

 deflexed prickles ; the lower axillary branches distant, rising almost 

 parallel with the stem, upper ones crowded, spreading, single-flowered; 

 peduncles and bracts covered with long hairs, setae, and weak prickles; 

 sepals excessively hairy and setose, patent in flower, and investing the 

 half-ripe fruit. 



^. pyirimidalis (R. pyramidalis, Bah.). Panicle very long, leafy 

 almost to the summit ; the lower axillary branches so elongated as to 

 be mixed up with those above them, and all in close conjunction with 

 the main stem, and ])arallcl with it. 



This species seems hitherto to have been misunderstood, and con- 

 sequently unnoted ; but it is undoubtedly connected, by intermediate 

 links, with Mr. Babington's " pyramidalis," as I have observed both 



