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COMARUM, L. 



258. C. palustre, L. 



Native; in marshes and peat ditches, rare. 



S. Specimens from Leigh Woods, and from Ashton 

 Manor Woods, gathered by Miss At wood, are authenti- 

 cated by Swete, Fl. Brist., p. 27. The plant is now 

 believed to be absent from those localities, and perhaps 

 is not to be seen nearer Bristol than on the peat at 

 Shapwick, near the extreme southern limit of the 

 district. VIE. 



FRAGARIA, Z. 



259. F. VeSCa, L. Strawberry. 



Native ; abundant in woods and thickets, and on old walls. 

 Specimens from Brandon Hill are in the Stephens' Her- 

 barium. V. VI. 

 (Fragaria elatior, Ehrh. Straggling colonies of garden 

 strawberries exist in several places; notably near the 

 railway under Durdham Down, at Kingswood, Yatton, 

 and near Clevedon. We are not certain that any of 

 these are true elatior, and it seems probable that they 

 all have escaped from cultivation in comparatively recent 

 times.) 



RUBUS, L. 



The arrangement of the bramble-forms at present known to 

 us in the district has been undertaken with much hesitation. It 

 is only by using abundant leisure with enthusiastic diligence that 

 a botanist can become familiar with this genus ; and it is perhaps 

 not a matter for surprise that the few who luckily are endowed 

 with the essentials should prefer to employ them in other 

 directions. That we have not in our own ranks a bramble 

 expert can therefore be no rare misfortune, much as we regret it. 

 To the ever-ready kindness of Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs we owe 

 the identification of most of our specimens of Rubus and Rosa, 



