﻿Remarkable for the very variable clothing of prickles, acicles 

 and stalked glands both on stem and rachis, in this character 

 resembling R. Drejeri Jensen; and for its closely- set, roundish 

 leaflets, contrasting in this point with the var. dentatifolius Briggs. 

 The rachis at times resembles that of R. infestus W. in its numerous, 

 strong, deflexed prickles. Eelated to R. infestus W., but clearly 

 nearer to R. Borreri Bell- Salt., under which it is best placed as a 



Open rough pastures and coppices. The spots in which this 

 bramble delights are termed "leasows" in this part of Hereford- 

 shire, that is, rough pastures, interspersed with pollard ash, and 

 other trees. Hence the name " virgultorum" is not deemed in- 

 appropriate. 



Localities. Scattered over several square miles in the country 

 Heath Coppice, Kimbolton ; 

 nbury; Pedwardine Wood, 

 in Herefordshire. Harley 



NOTES ON KENTISH PLANTS OBSERVED DURING 1893. 

 By the Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



I made a few day-excursions into the county during May and 

 June of last year, sharing three of them with Capt. Wolley Dod, 

 R.A., who has recently done so much good work in its north-western 

 districts, and to whose keen and accurate observation I am con- 

 siderably indebted. The first half of July was mainly spent in 

 working from Ashford as a convenient centre. Although few parts 

 of England have been more carefully explored than Kent, there is 

 still evidently a good deal of scope for further research, especially 

 in "critical" genera ; and I publish the details which follow in the 

 hope of arousing fresh interest in an unusually rich flora, which of 

 late years has hardly received as much attention as it deserves. 



Plants marked with an asterisk are additions to the record in 

 Topographical Botany, ed. 2, for vice-counties 15 and 16 (E. and W. 

 Kent). Those to which a dagger is affixed are believed to be pre- 

 viously unrecorded for the British Isles. My best thanks are due 

 to Mr. Arthur Bennett, as well as to the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers 

 and Dr. Focke, for much kind help. 



Glaucium flavum Crantz. Grain Spit, near Port Victoria, 16.* 



Nasturtium palustre DO. Dry moat at Westenhanger Castle, 15.* 



\SeneUera didyma Pers. Casual, in a farmyard between Paddles- 

 worth, and Elham, 15.*] 



Lepigonum salinum Fr. and var. neglectum (Kindb.) both grow 

 near Port Victoria. The latter has been noticed in West Kent by 

 several botanists ; but neither this segregate nor L. marginatum 

 Koch (also found at Port Victoria) is given for 16 by Watson. 



Erodium cicutarium L'Herit. A very hairy and glandular variety 



