88 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
counties touched are numbered as follows in Topographical Botany: 
16, W. Kent; 17, Surrey; 18, 8. Essex; 21, Mi é 
round examined most closely lies within ten or twelve 
miles of Charing Cross, and a considerable majority of the localities 
given in 
not seen the living bushes I have had the privilege of examining. 
i to Mr. J. Benbow, 
- Powell, and Major A. H. Wolley Dod 
is especially great. In addition to the localities from which I have 
seen dried specimens, reference will be made in a very few instances 
to other localities reported to me for some of the same species by 
i ith these exceptions no localities are included in 
this paper beyond those in which I have seen the living bushes. 
As i 
These notes go far to show how favourably circumstanced 
London botanists are for the study of our British brambles. Thus 
it will be seen that even if they confine their attention to the four 
great suburban commons at Streatham, Tooting, Barnes, and 
m are quite abundant locally. 
xtending their researches so as to include Hampstead Heath 
(Middlesex) in the north-west, with Hayes and Chislehurst Com- 
mons and Plumstead and Shooter’s Hill (West Kent) in the south, 
they will find the number of forms available for study increased to 
sixty-two. In other words, these ten localities, all within a radius 
of ten or twelve miles of Charing Cross, are now known to contain 
land ; ne 
slightly further from London) in the four counties touched bring 
e total up to ninety-one, the number of forms for which (exclusive 
of hybrids) localities are given in this paper. 
It remains for some resident botanist to examine the brambles 
of the parks and park-like places of Central London, a task which 
can hardly be fully accomplished without permission from the 
authorities to enter the locked enclosures. 
Rubus ideus L. Without attempting to give localities for the 
type, I may state that the only station near London known to me 
for oe obtustfolius Willd. is copse below Uxbridge Common (21), © 
J, Benbow. 
