58 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
top; flowers greenish yellow, quite showy. In open thickets in 
company of high grasses. 
t seems from this that it is an acaulescent plant. It certainly 
belongs to - ‘oup emer — nearest ally may be 4. an ga 
m” 0 
Baron von Mechow’s phoned collected near Mange also a 
NEW BRAMBLES FROM SOUTH WALES. 
By Rev. W. Moyzte Rocrrs anp Rey. Aueustin Ley. 
nt for d bhi some marked brambles me with both i in this 
in many of the expeditions made. It has been thought advisable, 
for the sake of completeness, to add also the description of a close 
allied Scottish form. When no name is quoted, we are ourselves 
Say oars for the records. 
Rusvus Gopront Lec. & Lam . FOLIOLATUS, var. nov. Leaflets 
small “roundish cborate saapuanes, iis terminal scarcely larger or 
roader than the intermediate, simply finely wanda; not glossy 
above "light green Loney: not white, beneath. Prickles shorter 
than in type, dhe, straight or slightly falcate. Panicle very long, 
narrow, with long ultra- axillary part, its leaves similar to those of 
the stem, its rachis beari ring numerous strong curved thorns. Name 
suggested by the numerous small leaflets of the stem and panicle. 
Localities. — Brecon: Tawe Valley from Craig-y-nos Castle to 
below Pont-ar-dawe. Neath Valley near Aberpergwm ie st 
Neath Valley near Glyn Neath Station. MHill-sides near Neat 
Cheshire: Near Speer Hill, Major Wolley-Dod ! First Spode a 
OE co about 1890 
R. tastociapos Foe ke: var. LONGUS, var.nov. Near var. angusti- 
ites Rogers; from which it differs by the vine bee pre! oe eo 
Be i by the leaflets obovate, with long a — e gradually 
Although clearly very near the var. angustifolius Rogers, this plant 
differs ‘conspicuously from that variety in the field, and seems to 
merit recognition i in print. 
Localities. — Glamorgan ; Neath Valley: very abundantly in the 
neighbourhood of Neath itself, and again at Resolven, seven miles 
dee 
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