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of temperate regions, the bramble does not, in this country, rise very 

 high on the mountains, and is most luxuriant in the valleys, especially 

 in the vicinity of moisture ; though R. discolor will flourish in the 

 driest spot. The loftiest place on which I have found a bramble growing 

 is on the tabular summit of the Banwen Mountain, Breconshire, about 

 1800 feet in altitude, where I have gathered R. suberectus in a stunted 

 state, yet with large, disproportionate flowers, very similar to speci- 

 mens I have from the " Highlands of Scotland," presented me, some 

 years since, by Mr, H. C. Watson, but with no mention of altitude. 

 Perhaps in Scotland, R. suberectus, in springy spots upon the moun- 

 tains, may ascend higher than in Wales. The highest spot where I 

 have noticed R. caesius is on the table-land of the Cotteswolds, near 

 Birdleap, Gloucestershire, which is between 1000 and 1100 feet high. 

 Next to R. suberectus, the pretty R. Sprengelii seems most to affect 

 subalpine spots : it occurs on the summit of the Lickey Beacon, 

 Worcestershire, among bilberries, at 950 feet ; on Bardon Hill, Lei- 

 cestershire, at 800 feet; and between Capel Curig and Llanrwst, 

 North Wales, which must be considerably higher. R. Bellardi, also, 

 I have noticed, on a wooded hill near Malvern, at full 800 feet ; and 

 many of the Rubi that occur about waterfalls in Wales, as R. Men- 

 kii, R. scaber, R. incurvatus, R. affinis, &c., must be seated at full 

 1000 feet ; but brambles are never found, with the Ulex, occupying 

 the summit of mountains. Indeed, it is in the southern counties 

 where they attain the greatest luxuriance of growth, especially in 

 Devonshire, where R. macrophyllus, R. plicatus, and R. suberectus 

 grow very lofty, with magnificent foliage, and R. Guntheri is dilated 

 into the thyrsifloral form. 



The bramble tribe flourish, on the coast, to the very margin of the 

 sea. Extensive sandy tracts in Merioneth and Caernarvonshire are 

 covered with the trailing R. caesius ; and my friend the Rev. J. H. 

 Thompson has observed the same in Lincolnshire. Probably the 

 coast of every English county where there are sandy denes possesses 

 the caesian bramble in like manner, R, discolor, also, extends to the 

 tidal boundary, and where I have seen it on the shores of North and 

 South Wales, and in Devon and Somerset, must often be bathed in 

 the saline spray. 



R. caesius, corylifolius, and discolor appear to be very generally 

 dispersed ; but the latter becomes less common in the north of Eng- 

 land. The glandulose brarnbles have some form to represent them 

 almost everywhere in the low country, of which R. rudis and Koehleri 



