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in Wales and Worcestershire. The name of the German botanists 

 must therefore take precedence. R. Menkii appears to be almost 

 peculiar to forest districts, where the barren stem is mostly prostrate 

 upon the ground. If it thus remains concealed in the shade, the 

 panicles of the next year are short, displayed in a fastigiate manner, 

 and of a very cinereous aspect ; but, when more exposed, the panicle 

 is long and racemose, exactly as represented in Rub. Germ. t. xxii. 

 The leaves, though generally ternate, are sometimes qninate ; but, in 

 that case, the basal pair are of small size, and seated on the stalks 

 of the intermediate. From the edges of the leaflets being decurved, 

 they appear almost plane and even, though, in reality, sharply ser- 

 rate. The barren stem, when exposed, is finely tinged with purple, 

 and the prickles numerous, unequal, but weak and slender, straight 

 or slightly declining, and of an intensely bright purple colour. The 

 calyces are very hairy ; when exposed, beautifully covered with pur- 

 ple prickles and setae, and, before expanding, rosaceous, with leafy 

 points. They are involute upon the half-ripe fruit, but at length 

 loosely reflex. The variety agrees in all respects with the type, but 

 has a remarkably elongated, pyramidal panicle, whose long-stalked 

 branches, almost parallel with the stem, and purple-cinereous aspect, 

 distinguish it from every other bramble. 



In subalpine woods and moist thickets, but rather uncommon. 

 Banks of the Lyn, near Brendon, Devon, Shrawley Wood and 

 Wyre Forest, Worcestershire. Capel Curig, Caernarvonshire. The 

 var. B. with the type, and also at Llanberis, Caernarvonshire. Also at 

 Culbone, Somerset, Mr. Bahington. 



JR. Bahingtonii, Bell-Salt. Stem angular, sulcate ; prickles small, 

 compressed ; aciculi many ; setae few, scattered ; leaves ternate or 

 quinate, large, pilose beneath, their leaflets coarsely dentate, terminal 

 one broad, obovate, abruptly cuspidate ; rachis setose, not tomentose ; 

 panicle long, leafy, setose, with slender prickles ; branches short, 

 ascending, crowded at the summit ; sepals hairy, setose, acuminate, 

 patent in flower. 



&. Bloxamii (Lees). Stem sulcate, with numerous setae and aciculi ; 

 leaves quinate, soft, and green, hairy on both sides ; rachis very hairy 

 and setose ; panicle very long ; the lower branches distant, panicu- 

 late, leafy to the suddenly crowded, short, bracteated upper ones ; the 

 peduncles densely hairy and setose, closely armed with long pale 

 prickles. Borders of woods. 



The variety with which I am best acquainted is a very savage - 

 looking bramble, more prickly than the type ; and on the barren stem 



