58 A NEW LONDON FLOKA. 



ROSA MOLLISSIMA. Charlton Wood (?) olim-, Roxeth (Mids.) ; about 



Claygate; Fflanchford ; Reigate woods; hedges between Redstone Hill 



and Nutfield; near the foot ofLeith Hill. 

 ROSA RUBIGINOSA. Bushy places, and borders of woods m the chalk 



districts, not very common, 6-7. Box Hill ; Ranmore Common ;* banks 

 " bordering Croham Hurst ; between Cobham and Cuxton ; Riddlesdown, 



near Caterham Junction;* Holmwood Common; Burnham Beeches; 



Hertford Heath; Cook's Hill, Little Berkhampstead ; Wood Lane, 



Great Berkhampstead ; Stanmore Heath. 



illiA>3 ,,. , Corking chalk-pits , ----- _ 



hills E. of Merstham ; hills E. of Shoreham ;* and beyond Wrotham ; 



Burnham Beeches ; Epping Forest ; Morant's Court Hill ; about ] 



ford in hedges ; Gatton. 

 ROSA CANINA. Hedges and bushy places, common, 5-6. Everywhere 



in lanes and roadsides about London.* N.B. Twenty-nine varieties 



are enumerated in the seventh edition of the Catalogue ; to what extent 



these may severally occur in the metropolitan districts, there are no 



records to show; a variety with woolly styles grows in Burnham 



Beeches.* See Baker, ' British Roses.' 

 ROSA STYLOSA. Thickets and hedges, frequent, 6-7. Lane leading from 



Child's Hill to Hendon ;* Broxbourne ;* and woods thereabouts. N.B. 



A good species with a distinctive characteristic ; though united to the 



following by some botanists. 

 ROSA ARVENSIS. Woods, hedges and thickets, common, 6-7. 



Epping Forest ;* &c. 

 ROSA SYSTYLA. See R. STYLOSA. 



RUBUS ID^US. Upland woods, not frequent, 6-7. Box Hill;* about 

 Mickleham; Merstham; Reigate Heath (?) ; Aldbury Nowers Wood;- 

 Bagshot Heath (N.W. corner) ;* Hatfield Forest ; Warley Common ; 



Boreham Wood ; Keston Common.* 



RUBTJS FRUTICOSUS (aggregate). 1 Hedges and thickets; common, 7-8. 

 Many segregates ; recorded localities as follows : 



i The number of segregates exclusive of R. casius, amounts in the Catalogue of 

 1874 to forty, besides intermediate forms. There are six species, according to Hooker 

 and Arnott. No doubt they all run into each other, and it is impossible to draw fixed 

 lines of demarkation, so that they may be distinguished by unexceptionable and by 



arrangement, according to the above-named 



^. ^ge 8 , and boggy places ; low-lymg damp 

 situations by rivulets. For localities see note on the segregates 

 b Rubusfruticosus: thickets and hedges (the common form, with leaflets downy on 



and commons (stems smooth and usually of a 

 eaths* ; plentiful by the Basingstoke. canal beyond 



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Epping; Wimbledon Common. 



