358 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
T am well aware that it is much easier to criticize than to con- 
struct, and it must not be supposed that I do not consider Mr. 
Ley’s paper as of very considerable merit in many points ; it will 
certainly do not a little to help forward a better understanding of 
our native roses. 
WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE PLANTS. 
By Iva M. Roper. 
Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe. Among the southernmost spurs 
of the Cotswolds there are deeply excavated combes and valleys 
with small streams running towards the Severn from the high 
plateau of oolite that lies to the eastward. One of these, known 
as Whitewell Bottom, has its mouth at Hillesley, and winds its 
way upwards, with long stretches of woodland upon its sides. 
valley no building other than a cowshed, until some mills are 
reached considerably lower down. No footpath lies near—the 
road up the combe is on the opposite side—nor has there been 
planting or cultivation of any kind to suggest the idea of possible 
introduction. The Euphorbia, so far as we know at present, is 
