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= wa Neath Valley. First noticed in 1905. A plant observed by 
. 8. Marshall as sites oh a pen and Newquay, 
Gendienee seems to come very near this ety. 
Further study sah shown it to Se deaitublo to ns em R. erice- 
torum Lefv. from R. Lejeunei W. & N., with which it has been 
a 
Catalogue, ed. 9, and to restore it to specific rank. It seems 
further evident that R. ericetorum Lefy. is more closely connected 
by other forms with R. sertiflorus P. J. Muell. than had been 
realized when the Handbook was published. Hence the following 
rearrangement is proposed :— 
Rusus ERICETORUM ee 
UNEATUS, Var. 
Gibapetiog chomeiines “. ‘J. Muell. ). 
Var 
grey felt beneath. Bétration fine, ~stlat towards the point. 
Panicle very long, with corymbose = and distant divaricate cymose 
ranches ; its numerous simple leaves reaching nearly to the top. 
Rachis clothed with short lax hace iaoteel stalked glands, and 
gland-tipped bristles; prickles slender, declining. Sepals reflexed, 
clothed pT ape ith soft grey felt, which makes a cushion for 
numerous sunken or nearly sunken purplish glands. Petals large, 
pinkish or white; stamens far exceeding reddish styles. 
Widely spread in South and West “England, up to Cheshire: 
recorded oa seventeen vice-counties. 
Var. EATus, var.nov. Differs from the type in the following 
io nts Stem ith the main prickles shorter. Leaflets longer, 
fechan. Near Penderyn. — Glamorgan: — Valley from Pont- 
nedd-fechan to Resolven. Near Neath t Llantrissant and 
Ystrad-owen, near Cowbridge. Taff’s Well. pee Caerphily. Aber- 
a r 
—Monmouth: In the Went Wood, near Usk. First observed about 
1890, in the Mellte Glen. 
RICETORUM subsp. sERTiFLonus (P. J. Muell.). Armature 
throug hous more radulan, less sub-kcehlerian ; saackten stouter, 
usually deflexed ; intermediate Pe few or none; stalked glands 
numerous. Type. Leaves with greenish grey felt beneath, and 
with fairly even shallow partly patent teeth. Rachis densely 
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