RUBI OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LONDON 89 
Superectt. Uncommon. 
Ri. fissus Lindl. 16. Chislehurst C.; abundant near the ponds 
and quite typical. 18. Warley C., Dr. Hind. The e apparent 
absence of this species from all the Surrey commons and heaths 
is Somes 
R. Rogersit Linton. 16. Farnborough C., FE. F. Linton & D. 7. 
Playfair. Hayes C.; in considerable quantity over about a quarter 
of a mile of the common, not far from Hayes Railway Station. 
fi. plicatus Wh. & N. Singularly local. 16. West Chislehurst 
C., ‘plentiful, ” Wolley Dod. At end of Chislehurst C., near rail- 
way station, in one = near the Memorial Cross. 17. Shee nC., 
C. E. Britton. Walton-on-Thames. This locality (where T had 
the advantage of Major Wolley mio 8 hegre may be understood 
generally to stand for Walton C., now a very broken though still 
extensive district. In succeeding notes it will appear as Walton. 
21. Hampstead H., Nicholson. 
SUBRHAMNIFOLII. 
While this group is fairly eget by four out of its six 
species, they are all rare except R. a 
R. nitidus Wh. & N. subsp. seca Woika: air Abrook C., 
abundant; Oxshott, Deke and Fairmile Com rin ngly, 
Britton. A form with pink petals, but otherwise dest cbsabntaviaaees 
R. afinis Wh. & N. aca) abundant locally. 16. Slopes east 
re Plumstead C., Wolley Dod. 17. Wimbledon, Barnes, and Toot- 
ing seri ns, and utney 
ntegribasis P. J. Muell.? 17. Tooti ting C., a rather exten- 
sive thicket of it in one part; at indistinguishable from the 
plant so common about Bournemouth (Hants and ae for 
— Dr. Focke suggested this dase as Sone right. 
R. holerythros Focke. 17. Abrook C., Britto 
R#AMNIFOLII 
_ Exceedingly common. On the h saith and commons to the 
south of — more abundant probably than all the other groups 
taken toget 
R. imbr ai Hort. 17. Barnes, Wandsworth, and Wimbledon 
Commons. A strong form fairly frequent in these three not widely 
- separated localities, and also several miles further to the south- 
west at Oxshott. This is the plant briefly referred toon p. 26 of 
my Handbook of British Rubi, and I have as yet seen it — in 
these four Surrey localities. Mr. Britton, however, to w: 
showed the living bushes on ‘Barnes C., tells me that he has sinpé 
seen it also on Blackheath (W. Kent), as well as on two additional 
an ers 
are more comp ail than in the type, ‘ina when well devel 
have a: Beeind: beassdlitas corymbose top, which is far from charac- 
teristic of the species ; while the petals seem to be preter ss arg 
