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"obtuse or subobtuse," as in Syme's description; but I am not 

 prepared to affix any other character to the variety at present than 

 the spur on the fruit. The pond is in a clay district, and in a 

 sunny situation. — Edward F. Linton. 



Eubus mercicus b. bracteatus, n. var. — Prickles patent and 

 longer than in type. Leaves greyer, those on the panicle often 

 felted beneath. Panicle much longer, with long ascending branches, 

 and -pyramidal ultra axillary top, of (mostly) many-flowered patent 

 erect branches. LWA/.v and pcdiah (as well as the very strongly 

 reflexed sepals) conspicuously yrey-hlted. 1 l,acte„l,'s remarkably 

 large and numerous, mostly 8-cleft. This variety occurs in hedges 

 and in large clumps on the waysides over a considerable portion of 

 the Anker Valley, in Warwickshire, but I have not seen it elsewhere. 

 Its habit is much that of R. Lindleianus, but the panicle is more 

 open and more prolonged. The Eev. W. Moyle Eogers, to whom 

 I sent specimens, agrees with me in considering it a marked variety 

 of h nerc and has kindly drawn up for me the description 

 given above.— J. E. Bagnall. 



Eubus rubicundus : a Correction (p. 139).— The Eev. W. Moyle 

 Eogers has reminded me that the name Rubus rubicundus has been 

 employed by Midler and Wirtgen to designate a different plant, and 

 this was not free to be used by me. I much regret my oversight, 

 and at Mr. Eogers's suggestion I propose to employ, instead of 

 rubicundus, the name E. rubrlflorus. I cannot find that this 

 name has been employed, and if the word be not a classical one, it 

 at least serves to mark a striking feature of the plant intended. — 

 W. H. Purchas. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 Hieracia alpina aus den Hochgebirgsgeyendcn </.-.%• mittleren Skandi- 

 naviens. Von M. Elfstrand. Upsala : Almquist & Wibsells. 

 1893. 



Brought up in close proximity to the mountains of Jemtland 

 (probably the richest hunting-ground in Europe for the numerous 

 Hieracia comprised in Fries' section alpina), enjoying the advantages 

 of the intimate friendship, and acquintance with the views of such 

 authorities as Almquist, Dahlstedt, and Norrlin, and with access to 

 the fine collections of Upsala and Stockholm, Dr. Elfstrand has had 

 opportunities for the pursuit of his favourite study which have 

 fallen to the lot of few botanists. 



The work before us is in the main a repetition of the earlier 

 classification adopted bv the same author in his Botan'mka utflyytrr 

 (Bihaw, till K. Svenxka ' Yrt. Akad. liandl. xvi. <i. No. 7, Stockholm, 

 1890), but with several new forms added which were collected 

 during the summers 1890-2. 



Alpina Fr. is now divided into three subsections, with the 

 addition of the isolated species H. depilatum Almq., with its sub- 

 species pseudo-depiUitum Almq. 



