SUSSEX RUBI 87 
urst, S.  Popple Hill, pan: 1901. Dense copse on 
pach Road, near Fittleworth. E. Mitchelham Priory ; 
Heathfield Park ; Kemp’s Wood, Maki Abbots’ Wood, R.! 
R. serPENS Weihe. W. Near St. Leonards House, Horsham, 
1903, S.!| Benham to BognorCommon. E. Wood near Uckfield, 
towards Blackdown; Downland Wood, F.! 
ee Hintus Waldst. & Kit. W. Wakehurst, Mitten (teste 
C.C. B.). Albourne, Borrer. 
Var. ROTUNDIFOLIUS Bab. “W. Near Midhurst, on the Sel- 
ham Road, 1914; in good quantity, in partial shade, but very 
characteristic. 
Var. KauTENBacHi (Metsch.). *W. Bognor Common, 1914, 
M.A. f.! A very luxuriant and handsome plant. E. Downhead 
Wood and neighbourhood, F’.! Apparently this 
Var. FLACCIDIFOLIUS (P.J. Muell.). *“W. Sear Midhurst, 1914. 
Var. RuBIGINOsUS (P. J. Muell.). *W. Benham, 1914, Ff. A. R.! 
Indistinguishable from plants thus named confidently by Dr. Focke 
from several British and Irish counties. 
Var. MINUTIFLORUS (P. J. Muell.). *“W. Wood near Cocking ; 
Cowdray Park, 1907, H.! All the plants referred to here as varieties 
of R. hirtus must, I believe, be referred to the “ hirtus group,’ 
which, though apparently uncommon everywhere, seems to 
unusually well represented in Sussex, a in os apne: 
and Midhurst districts. Our acquaintance with these plants, 
which Dr, Focke has taught us to aia with ? gties is 
ateceenbe incomplete for lack of good representative Continental 
specim but I have a fair series of British examples so named 
by fink ea have spared no pains in my study of these from 
Sussex. 
[R. pepper 2: P. J. Muell. — Boas south of Chailey 
Station, 1906 and 1907, H.!—R. s Lefv. E. Eridge to 
Frant Road, 1904, G.! Both vation hieriedi] 
Cz 
Except in the chalk reseed ot ee county, members of this 
group are, as a Bae quite un 
R. DUME mM Wh. & ‘N, ‘6 coll W. Graffham. Rogate. 
Hedge near “Cuckfield, 1901, 'H.! Midhurst Common, 1902, S. ! 
E. Nightingale Hollow. Kenwards, near Lindfield, 1902, Standen! 
a. FEROX Weihe. Dyke’s Downs; lane out of Montpelier Road, 
Hoye, 1901, H.! E. Waterdown Lane, Tunbridge, 1902. Bex- 
hill. St. Leonards-on-Sea. Racecourse to lighthouse (? Hast- 
bourne), £. ! 
b. BRITANNICUS (Rogers). E. Hemstead Lane, Uckfield, F.! 
e. Maptreeateanie hoe ndl.). W. Henfield, C.C.B. ‘ Frequent,” 
W. . Abbotswood; Hailsham to Folkington; Polegate neigh- 
bourhood, B. ! 
f. TUBERCULATUS Bab. W. Henfield, C. C. B. Near Petworth 
Station, 
