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Merioneth shires ; and I have gathered it, also, in Brecon, Cardigan, 

 Pembroke, Caermarthen, and Glamorgan shires. 



R. plicatus is equally extended with R. suberectus, and is a stronger 

 and stouter plant, with larger prickles. It is less commonly found 

 prostrate, but is occasionally forced to the ground, beneath the weight 

 of its flowering branches. I have observed it very fine on the Island 

 of Llandysilio, in the Menai Strait. 



Subdiv. viii. RuBi Id^i. 



JR. Leesii, Bab. Stem round, bending, closely, but minutely, 

 tomentose ; prickles numerous, slender, straight, rising suddenly from 

 a bulbose base ; leaves all ternate ; the leaflets subsessile, roundly 

 ovate, the basal ones overlapping, minutely hairy above, white, with 

 accumbent pubescence beneath ; flowering branches axillary, alter- 

 nate to the end of the stem, downy, with trilobated or cordate, deeply- 

 cut floral-leaves ; flowers in numerous clusters ; the peduncles armed 

 with setaceous prickles. In stony, subalpine woods, rare. Ilford 

 Bridges, near Brendon, Devon. Dunster, Somerset, on the way to 

 Timberscombe. 



Stem scarcely a yard in height, producing terminal as well as axil- 

 lary flowers, in dense clusters, and well characterized by the singular, 

 trilobated, widely-distended floral leaves, which are frequently so 

 united as to be cordate, and deeply indented. The petals are often 

 multiplied in number to twelve or sixteen, which is probably the 

 reason the plant seldom fruits. I have only once met with it in that 

 state, when the fruit was very small, and bright crimson. 



I sent sterile specimens to the London Botanical Society nine years 

 ago, under the name of Fragaria-similis ; many of the leaves having 

 much the appearance of those of the common strawberry. It has 

 since been gathered at Dunster, by the Rev. W. H. Coleman and 

 Mr. Babington. It is likely to be met with in Wales and the Lake 

 district. 



To give a full and correct account of the distribution of the Rubi 

 in Britain, would require an extended observation of many years;* 

 and though I have attended much to the subject, I know but little of 

 the Rubi of the North of England, from actual observation. A lover 



* Mr. Babington has a valuable paper on the subject, in the third volume of Mr. 

 Watson's ' Cybele ;' but I could much extend the range there given for many species. 



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