60 A NEW LONDON FLORA. 



RTJBUS CORYLIFOLIUS. See aggregate ; also at Bell Bar ; Rickmansworth ; 

 Milwards Park Wood ; Gatton ; Norbury Park, Headley Lane ; Leyton ; 

 Southend, &c. 



RUBUS TUBERCULATUS. Harrow ; Willesden. 



RUBUS ALTILEIFOLUS. Harrow ; Pinner. 



RUBUS KCELERI. Woods S. of Hertford ; Hoddesdon ; Broxbourne and 

 Wormley woods ; Gatton ; Norbury Park ; Headley Lane ; about Wal- 

 thamstow (woods in a barren soil, especially on wet clay). Var. pallidus, 

 Wimbledon Common ; Epping Forest.] 



N.B. A French botanist (Genevier, ' Brambles of the Loire,') declares that 

 there are " two hundred distinct species of Brambles. Evidently any 

 number may be made, at the option of the individual botanist ; say from 

 five to fifty " (Cybele). 



RUBUS C^ESIUS. Hedges and damp places, ditches, &c., common, 6-7. 

 (Lanes about Tottenham ;* Hendon.*) 



RUMEX CONGLOMERATUS. Watery places, not uncommon, 6-8. (River- 

 side between Hammersmith and Kew.*) 



RUMEX PALUSTRIS. Marshy places, rare. Plaistow ; Purfleet ; Wanstead 

 Park. 



RUMEX NEMOROSUS, var. sanguineus. Shady woods and pastures, rare, 

 7. Bishop's Wood, Hampstead ; var. sanguinea, Pinner Wood. 



RUMEX PULCHER. Pastures and waysides, not very frequent, 6-8. Road- 

 side between Hampton and Hampton Court (?) olim ; High Ongar ; 

 Wanstead; Purfleet. 



RUMEX OBTUSIFOLIUS. Waste places and waysides, common, 6-7. Every- 

 where in the environs.* Var. sylvestris, Ware. 



RUMEX CRISPUS. Waysides, and near houses, also in pastures, frequent. 



With the preceding everywhere in the environs.* 



RUMEX AQUATICUS. Moist places, rare, 7-8. Confounded with R. crispus, 

 or with the following (Cybele). 



RUMEX HYDROLAPATHUM. Ditches and riversides, not uncommon, 7-8. 

 Barnes Common ;* banks of the Thames ;* of the Lea Canal and ad- 

 joining ditches ;* of the Colne ;* of the Roding ;* &c. 



RUMEX MAXIMUS. A variety of the above, rare. In Herts. 



RUMEX MARITIMUS. Seashores, local. Purfleet. 



RUMEX ACETOSA. Meadows and pastures, common, 5-7. Meadows by 

 the Lea ;* everywhere ;* few meadows free from it. 



RUMEX ACETOSELLA. Dry pastures, banks, and roadsides, frequent, 5-7. 

 Plentiful on Hampstead Heath ;* Barnes Common ; &c.* 



RUPPIA ROSTELLATA. Salt-water ditches, local, 8-9. At Southend, E. 

 of the town, ditches on the flats.* In a ditch near the railway station 

 at Cuxton, coming from Cobham.* 



RusGUS ACULEATUS. Bushy and heathy places, and in woods, not common, 

 3-4. Claygate, near Ditton ; about Coulsdon ; Box Hill ;* Abbey Wood ; 

 Darent Wood ;* Epping Forest ; Harefield ; Warley Common ; Farnham 

 Common, beyond the park ; Hainault Forest ; Holmwood Common ; 

 woods about Godalming ; Cockshott Hill, Reigate, S.E. of mill ; Bayford ; 

 Westhumble Lane, Dorking ; plentiful. Ashdown Copse, Ranmore 

 Common ; Essendon ; hedge in Wormley Wood ; wood near Northaw. 



