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RUBI OF WOBURN SANDS. 
By Epwarp F. Linton, M.A. 
Tere is a sandy tract on re borders of Bedfordshire and 
Buckinghamshire, where the L. & e fro dford to 
Bletchley cuts the county boundar ae which ‘ans a soil so similar to 
that of Bournemouth, that locally the village of Woburn Sands, 
which owes its origin to the planting here of the railway station for 
Woburn (two miles away), is sometimes spoken of as the ‘“‘ Midland 
Bournemouth.” Owing to the foresight of a former Duke of Bedford, 
the low sandy hills are clothed with Scotch fir as the predominating 
tree; and itis not difficult to imagine oneself, when walking through 
the woodland rides, in the Talbot Woods or Branksome Park of the 
southern watering- -place It struck me that it would be interesting 
to compare the beainbloa of these two districts ; and on the last day 
of Pepe 1892, I was able to spend several hours studying this 
on both ay of the boundary. I will take those within the 
sate of Bue 
Bucks (24). a “These I find, after Soong ee ven Mr. Arthur 
Bennett and Mr. G. C. Druce, to be new to the county :—Rubus 
plicatus W.& N. The Rev. W. Moyle Rites Bache this had a 
peculiar look; not that he had any other name to suggest; as a 
matter of fact, I think it is simply peculiar in being shade-grown; 
conseanany the leaves lose ae plicate character ; I have speci- 
mens with just such flat leaves from De rbyshire, Norfolk, and 
nae y. The sails is not at all untypical. — R. nemoralis P. J. 
Muell, (the ordinary wmbrosus, auct.). In woodland, south of the 
village. — R. pyramidalis Kalt. Wooded side of a wet lane. The 
specimens are - Aare of the usual thick clothing under the leaf, 
owing to the wet and shady situation; but Mr. Rogers arrived at 
the same conclusion, independently, that the plant was R. pyrami- 
dalis. There were a few bushes visible; probably more in the wood. 
—R. Drejeri G. Jensen. Named for me by the Rev. W. Moyle 
ers. “Only one bush was noticed. It struck me at once as a 
species I was not famili - with, na cg = the living state.— 
R. rudis Weihe. Only noticed in : two or three bushes. 
This is a typical form of the plant, ane “Frentionl with the Oxford- 
shire material which has been issued in Fasc. I. of the Set of British 
ubi.—On a form of the hirtus group, fonand in fair quantity in the 
woodland just south of the village, Dr. W. O. Focke writes as 
follows :—‘‘ R. flaccidifolius P. J. Muell., I believe. It is dis- 
tinguished from all forms of the hirtus group by its sepals reflexed 
in fruit.” I am not aware that this has been noted for Britain 
before.—R. dumetorum W. & N. In hedgerows. — R. Balfourianus 
Blox. A good tvpeenl form of this variable species; hedgerows, 
south of the village. 
Besides these I noticed R. Idaus L., in the woods; R. rusticanus 
Merc., R. leucostachys Schleich., and R, Raduta Weihe, by road- 
oot already recorded ; also R. pieepcee'y us W. & abun dant on 
