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following from his letter in reply: — "Looks indeed like our 

 German R. puhescens. In your plant the foot-stalks of the 

 terminal leaflet are very short, and the leaflets are tapering 

 towards the base. The true R. pubesceiis has rather long petio- 

 lules and a broad emarginate base of terminal leaflet.- Therefore 

 I cannot name your plant R. puhescens^ and I only say it is near 

 that species." As some of the leaves now sent by Mr. Griffith 

 have their terminal leaflet less narrowed to the base than in 

 those submitted to Dr. Focke, we can hardly be far wrong if 

 we leave this plant as an allied form under R. pubescenSj Weihe. 

 — W. M. R. 



R. thyrsoideus, Wimm. Borough Hill, Daventry, Northants, 

 July 29th, 1895 ; fide W. M. R.— J. T. Powell. 



R. macropluliiis , W. and N. var. Schlechtendalii (Weihe). Near 

 Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, July, 1895; new record. — W. H. 

 Painter. Yes.— W. M. R. 



R, macrophyUus, W. and N. var. Schlechiendalii (Weihe). 

 " Briary Bent," Knock Drin, Co. Westmeath, Aug. 28th, 1895. 

 — H. C. Levinge. All R. Schlechtendalii. — ^ . M. R. 



R. macu)phyllus, W. & N. var. amplijicaius (Lees). Newnham 

 Hill, Daventry, Northants, July 23rd, 1895. — J- T. Powell. 

 Certainly belongs to aggregate R. macrophvUus^ W. and N., 

 and apparently a form somewhat connecting var. Schlechtendalii 

 (Weihe) with the plant issued as R. niacrophyllus in Fasc. iv (No. 

 83) of Set of British Rubi." The latter was pointed out to me 

 (growing in Branksome Park, Dorset, in 1889) by Dr. Focke, 

 with the remark, "Quite our German macrophyllus, but for the 

 Jess hairy barren stem." In leaves however (though not in 

 panicle) this abundant Hants, and Dorset plant seems to me to 

 take no inconsiderable step away from typical macrophyllus 

 towards Schlechtendalii., while Mr. Powell's plant, in both leaves 

 and panicle, goes still further from the type in the same direc- 

 tion. I think it distinct from amplificatus. — W. M. R. 



R. Danicus, Focke. Woods, Knock Drin, Co. Westmeath, 

 July 31st, 1895. — H. C. Levinge. This was my suggestion when 



