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both in Hereford and Worcester ; in abundance. I am assured by 

 Kev. W. M. Rogers that the Sapey plant is identical with the Dorset 

 bramble to which this name has been assigned. 



B. Babingtonii Bell Salt. *var. phyJlothyrsus (Frider). More 

 common than the type in Herefordshire. Great Doward, Walford, 

 Aconbury, Yatton in the south and centre ; St. Margaret's in 



the west. 



B. *Bloxamii Lees. Very rare in Herefordshire. Ullingswicke, 



1898, 1900. 



B. fuscus W. & N. *var. nutans Rogers. Very local. Ivington, 



in abundance ; Lingen ; By ton. First noticed in 1891. 



B. pallidus \V. & N. var. leptopetalus Rogers, B. Lcehri Wirtg. 



Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 219. 



B. longithyrsiger Bab. *var. botryeros Rogers. Rare, but (as an 

 aggregate species) widely distributed in the county. Great Doward; 

 Putley ; Shobdon ; Whitfield Woods : these localities are in each 



division of the county. 



B. fusco-ater W. Found in several stations in widely separated 

 parts of the county. Bishopston Hill; Richard's Castle; Brampton 



Bryan ; Gar way Hill. 



B. distractus Muell. & Wirtg. Westhide Wood, 1894 ; a plant 

 answering with much exactness to Rev. W. H. Painter's Stafford- 

 shire plant thus named. See Handbook of British Bubi, p. 84. 



i?. Marshalli Focke & Rogers "var. semiglaber Rogers. Rare. 

 Bishopswood in the south; Kington andBriileyin the north. First 

 noticed in 1885. 



B. viridis Kali. Still one of the rarest Herefordshire brambles. 



Big Wood, Whitfield, 1897. 



B. BeUardii W. & N. In abundance in a wood in Cowleigh 

 Park, 1905. A hybrid — fuscus X BeUardii — in abundance in the 



same wood. 



B. hirtus W. & K. The typical plant in Big Wood, Whitfield, 



1906.— * Var. flaccid if olius (P. J. Muell)* Woods on Howie Hill, 



Ross ; first in 1885. Not known in any other station. 



jR. -nidnutiflorus P. J. Muell. Woods, local. Coldborough Park 



Wood, 1888 ; Big Wood and Timberline Wood, near Whitfield ; 



woods near Peterchurch ; near Upper Sapey, but just within the 



Worcestershire border. One of the most striking of our native 



brambles. 



R. acutifrons A. Ley *var. amplifrons A. Ley. See Journ. Bot. 



1902, p. 69. Up to the present (1907) unknown beyond the 



Big Wood, Whitfield, where this striking plant exists in great 



abundance. 



B. *tereticaulis P. J. Muell. Very rare. Big Wood, Whitfield, 



at a single spot, 1905. Elsewhere recorded for Britain only from 

 Sprowston, Norfolk. 



B. dumetoram W. & S. "'var. radulifonnis A. Ley. Near Ross; 

 Wormbridge ; Brilley ; Whitney, Bickham ! First noticed in 1905. 

 Probably widely distributed. — *Var. triangularis A. Ley. Rare and 

 local. Upper Sapey Common ; in Herefordshire, and more abun- 

 dantly in Worcestershire. Recurring in Wyre Forest, near Geo* 



