210 NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 
afinis in general appearance, but the presence of set on the stems 
are fatal to this determination. In reality it seems to come nearer 
. Borreri than to anything else. Another plant, which is frequent 
n hedges near Downhead Common, on the way to Stoke Lane, 
snnst also, I think, be referred here, at least for a present; it is 
exceedingly unlike the Clevedon plant, but resembles in reo 
respects the R. Borreri of the neighbourhood of Plymouth ; 
deserves further enema 
Bante: near the Wellin n Monument; ce about Castle 
no opportunity of comparing it with stents ic specimens 
Briggs referred the - temas ne a ern plants to peer 
with some doubt. They inly ery different from 
oods, near Bristol, which — to me quite different. I possess 
but a single specimen of this plant, which I owe to x ‘kindness be 
r. White, who has given me an interesting account 0 
oe in search . a name. It appears that it was fst 
Rhena i mor 
panicles different.” Mr. White calls attention to the “very peculiar 
bloom upon the barren stem.” He describes the plant as ‘‘a strong 
te Il- a — eer recognised, which grows in some qual ntity 
ridge.” I can add — to 
of the pre note. I am in ined to think this m be ‘the 
may 
may be worth of the difficulty, but only offer the suggestion for what it 
rie Weihe. — This i - a local bramble in Somerset, and 
Lag Git yal iste be alone taken into renege et is decidedly 
I have it from a « thay near Wellington”; from Bishop's 
