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c. anglicanus, n. var. St.-prickles rather scattered and unequal. 

 Lts. narrow, cuspidate-acuminate, finely and nearly evenly and 

 simply serrate ; term, usually obovate, sometimes narrowly elliptic, 

 never broadly ovate, and gradually tapering to a long point as in the 

 typical plant. Pan. less interrupted, lax throughout, with weak 

 subulate prickles. Whole plant „m,hh. In this var. there is nothing 

 to remind one of R.fuscus W. & N., as there is in the nearly allied 

 form which we are calling R. sertiforus P. J. Muell. The prevailing 

 and (apparently) only well-marked form of R. radula in S. England. 



A place between'/,', scaber W. & X. and R.fuscus W. & N. seems 

 the best for a Monro, plant to which Dr. Focke has just given 

 without qualification the name R. uncinatus P. J. Muell. This puts 

 it in that section of the Radula which I have named Sub-Bella) diani , 

 and its chief prickles are so small and scattered that if it should be 

 removed from that section of the Radula, room would have to be 

 found for it among the Bellardiani proper. It was discovered 

 last August by the Rev. E. F. Linton in the woods above Troy 

 House, Monmouth; and Dr. Focke states that it is "exactly 

 the same as the original R. uncinatus gathered by Mueller in the 

 fir-woods of S.W. Germany." The following description is made 

 from specimens kindly given to me by Mr. Linton : — St. bluntly 

 angular, hairy, thickly clothed with slender acicles and stalked 

 glands of various lengths. Prickles slender, rather unequal and 

 scattered, from long compressed base, strongly declining, whitish. 

 L. chiefly 5-nate-pedate. Lts. thin, with crowded finely pointed but 

 more or less compound toothing, thinly hairy on both sides, paler and 

 soft beneath ; term, more or less obovate and narrowed to the 

 entire or emarginate base, with fairly long acuminate point ; all the 

 stalks and midribs rather thickly furnished with slender faleat, and 

 uncinate prickles. Pun. narrow! y cylindrical- truncate,' with 1-3 

 short patent- erect distant branches below, and an ultra-axillary 

 top of crowded patent 1-3-flowered branches ; rachis and ped. densely 

 patent-hairy, the hairs as a rule far exceeding the many stalked 

 glands ; the u-eak aciculate prickles remarkably crowded, whitish, 

 uncinate, falcate, and declining. Sep. narrow, reflexed. Pet. white. 

 Stam. exceeding styles. 



R. rosaceus W. & N., var. silvestris R. P. Murr. MS. Under this 

 name the Rev. R. P. Murray has described in MS. for his Flora of 

 Somerset a woodland bramble which is very abundant in the Lynton 

 (N. Dev.) neighbourhood, and has also been found by him in 

 W. Somerset. It comes between typical rosaceus and var. hystrix, 

 having the short and usually broad pan. of the former, and the 

 narrow deeply cut Its. of the latter, the 1. being much thinner than 

 in either, chiefly 3-4-nate, and, when not 3-nate, strongly pedate. 

 The st. are weak and quite prostrate, the prickles slender and much 

 compressed, and the Its. as a rule remarkably narrowed to their 

 base and deeply incise-dentate. 



R. Powellii, n. sp. or n. var. St. prostrate, conspicuously angular, 

 often sulcate, dull purplish red (as are the prickles and other arms) 

 hairy, and thickly clothed with unequal gland-tipped hairs and 

 bristles. Prickles chiefly on the angles, not very unequal, long- 



