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received from Mr. Briggs, which is, I think, essentially the same as 

 our plant. Yet across that plant Dr. Focke had written u R. 

 leucandrus, var. T It is a point which can only be decided by further 

 study. The R. liirtifolius of Bere "Wood is an exceedingly hairy, but 

 quite eglandular plant, with a very soft under surface to the leaves. 



Rulus pyramidalis. Kalt. A very beautiful bramble, long 

 confused with R. liirtifolius, from which, however, it seems to be 

 abundantly distinct. The panicle is truly pyramidal (whence the 

 name) and is plentifully furnished with glands. But I find no 

 glands on the barren stem in the only specimens to which I have 

 access. The stems seem also to be much less hairy than in ./. 

 liirtifolius (at least as it is found in Bere Wood). 



R. pyramidalis occurs by a bushy roadside just to the south of 

 Bere Wood, where it was found by Mr. Briggs and myself in July 

 last. It must not be confused with R. pyramidalis, Bab. 

 (= R. longitliyrsiger, Lees), a very different plant, belonging to the 

 glandulose division of the brambles, and as yet unknown as a 

 Dorset plant. 



Rubus anglosaxonicus, Gelert. This plant seems to me to require 

 further study. It is said by Focke to be intermediate between 

 It. mucronatus and R. Radula, but I think that its affinities are 

 more with R. macropliyllus than with the former of these two. 

 Indeed, I suspect that it is often confused with R. macropltyllus, 

 from which, however, its glandular stem and panicle should easily 

 distinguish it. Focke tells us that the stems of R. Radula are much 

 rougher, from numerous equal aciculi ; its leaflets are narrow and 

 acuminate and its sepals are usually reflexed. R. mucronatus will 

 be easily distinguished by the shape and serrature of its leaflets. 

 Very curiously R. anglpsaxonicus seems to have first been recognised 

 as distinct at Copenhagen, where it was grown from seeds sent 

 from Plymouth under the name of R. macropltyllus. Focke 

 records it from Hampshire. I have it from Wells, Somerset ; from 

 Xorth Devon (Rogers) ; and from the neighbourhood of Bailie 

 Gate, in Dorset. It is said to occur also in N.W. Germany, where 

 it is local, and in France. 



