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As it seems to be admitted now that there are English forms of 

 R. pubescens Weihe and R. thyrsoideus Wimm., these names can 

 hardly be excluded from our list. They must, however, take their 

 place there at present only in an aggregate sense. In the case of 

 E. pubescens, we appear to have one well-marked form rather widely 

 spread in S. England, differing from the German plant especially 

 in its much weaker prickles and somewhat narrower Its. ; and it 

 might be convenient to distinguish this by the varietal name 

 mbinermis. This is really the plant described fully in my "Essay" 

 as "R. pubescens Weihe?" 



Plants which must, I think, be referred to an aggregate R. 

 thyrsoideus I have now seen from the counties of Lincoln, Derby, 

 Notts, and Hereford, and also from Kildare; as well as from the 

 older localities in Warwick and Devon. 



R. mollissimus, n. sp. St. angular, with striate faces and a 

 good many scattered and stellate hairs, eglandular, reddish brown. 

 Prickles moderate, subequal, patent or slightly declining from 

 dilated compressed base. L. large, 5-nate-digitate, concave. Lts. 

 remarkably rugose, brittle, dark green and hairy above, very softly 

 hairy or greyish-felted beneath, finely serrate for the most part, bttt 

 more or less uneven in outline, and occasionally having compound 

 or incised serrations in the upper half; term, roundish-obovate, 

 with entire base, and cuspidate-acuminate point. Pan. irith broad 

 cylindrical-truncate t» p , and (when well-developed) 2 or 3 short very 



and the upper oms most!;/ patent or divaricate, rather crowded, and 

 with one or more simple floral leave.-; rachides straight, densely 

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prickles rather few, subulate. Sep. cuspidate, reflexed. Pet. 

 roundish, with short claw. Sta>n. very numerous and long, far 

 exceeding the styles, pale lilac (like the pet.) or whitish. Heaths 

 and hedges, Dev., Dors., and W. Sutherland. 



This beautiful plant was found by Mr. Briggs in 1885, by the 

 Holsworthy and Thornbury Eoad, N. Dev. It also grows in some 

 quantity between Corfe Castle and Swanage, Dors., at Verwood, in 

 the same county, but near the Hants border, and at Tongue, W. 

 Sutherland. In some respects it recalls R. silvaticus and R. leu- 

 candrus; but Dr. Focke thinks that it comes still nearer to his R. 

 myrica, though obviously dissimilar in some important characters. 



R. lasioclados Focke. Dr. Focke has thus named a bramble 

 found last summer by Rev. E. S. Marshall at Paddlesworth, E. Kent. 

 It is densely hairy in st. and pan., and has thickly felted 1., 

 large broadly elliptic or suborbicular white pet., and styles nearly 

 equalling stamens. It thus strongly recalls some of our forms of 

 R. leucostachys Schleich. On the other hand, in its eglandular pan. 

 and very conspicuous fl. there is a look of R. aryentatn* F. J. Muoil., 

 under which Dr. Focke formerly placed it as a var. (Syn. R. G. 

 p. 198) ; but its sep. are more or less patent after flowering, and 

 the crowded falcate prickles on pan.-rachis are very remarkable. 

 Dr. Focke now considers that one of its nearest allies is the 

 "angwtifolius" of my "Essay"; so I should propose placing it 



