208 NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 
bramble considered by Baker to be good affnis, which is certainly 
what we in the west have been calling calvatus. 
R. Lindleianus Lees. — Yeovil ; Castle Orchard ; 
the leaves of the barren stem are ternate. In the case of one ~— 
placed here by Briggs the leaves are quinate-pedate, and pele 
imbricate. My impression is that the gradations between ; 
extreme type of this form (which approaches rhamnifolius) a 
ordinary Lindleianus are too numerous, and shade too gradua rf 
one into another, to make it desirable that it should be erected in 
ny) 
hedges near Br eld; abundant about Plainsfield; near 
Wellington ; hedge between Yeovil : Clevedon ; near 
Stoke e 
ane. ave collected the same form at Grou 
Sussex; and Mr. White finds it close to Bristol, in West Glouces 
shire. 
R. rhamnifolius W. & N. — Generally common, except in the 
Polden district, where I have not seen it. f 
- tmbricatus Hort. — Extremely rare in Somerset. I know 0 
only one station, viz., in a hedge near Spaxton, near the ee 
slopes of Quantock, where it was detected by Mr. Briggs in 1889. 
t exactly resembles Plymouth specimens. all 
R. discolor W. & N. — Common almost everywhere; gener y 
quite typical, but sometimes a form approaching leucostachys. 
: thi Welli 
ut llington, and in other places. 1a8 
Cccurred near Wells (R. J. Manning) and Axbridge (J. W. White) 
with white fruit (var. leucocarpus). 
R. thyrsoideus Wiram 
the 
yr - — Rare, and apparently confined to 
north-west of the county. ‘‘Hill-side between Cheddar and 
Axbridge ” (J. G. Baker). Briggs places here with some doubt es 
ft. leweostachys Sm. — An abundant woodland species, occurring 
even on Polden. Generally easy to r ise. 
com — Fairly common in the west and south of the 
ty. I have it from st Audries and Buncombe Hill, in the 
