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pods  of  that  Vetch  are  smaller  and  more  hairy  than  in 
V.  melanops,  and  it  is  unfortunate  there  are  no  pods  on 
the  specimen  from  Ledbury  sent  me.— H.S.T. 
Lathy rus  maritimus  Bigel.  Felixstowe,  E.  Suffolk, 
v.c.  25,  Sept.,  1909. — Coll.  E.  P.  Wilkinson.  Comm.  D.  M. 
Higgins. 
Rubus  macrophyllus  Wh.  &  N.  Wood  hedge  near 
Cwm-y-oy  (near  Llanvihangel  Crucorney),  N.  Monmouth - 
sh.,  v.c.  35,  Aug.  30,  1909. — A.  Ley.  Good  R.  sciaphilus 
Lange,  I  believe,  and  identical  with  a  plant  which  Mr. 
Ley  collected  in  the  same  neighbourhood  in  1903.  Similar 
as  it  looks  to  R.  macrophyllus  in  some  respects,  it  differs 
from  that  species  in  the  more  acicular  deflexed  prickles  of 
its  sulcate  stem,  and  (most  conspicuously)  in  the  much 
shorter  stalk  of  its  terminal  leaflet  (little  more  than  J, 
instead  of  nearly  length  of  leaflet),  the  coarser  and 
somewhat  lobate  leaf-toothing,  the  1 — 8  simple  floral 
leaves  and  “petals  always  white.”  Further  characters, 
usual  in  it  but  at  least  rare  in  R.  macrophyllus ,  are  the 
pedate  leaves  persistently  hairy  above,  the  broadly 
pyramidal  panicle  and  the  subpatent  or  only  loosely 
reflexed  fruit-sepals.  The  stout  sulcate  stem  is  usually 
rather  pale — somewhat  yellowish  or  (in  exposure)  bright 
red.— W.M.R. 
Ro  silvaticus  Wh.  &  N.  Wood  hedges  and  thickets  « 
near  Cwm-y-oy,  N.  Monmouthsh.,  v.c.  85,  Aug.  30,  1909. 
This  and  the  next  are  very  local  brambles  in  this  neigh-  r 
bourhood :  they  are  both  of  them  abundant  in  the  valley 
of  Llanthony,  at  the  bottom  of  which  Cwm-y-oy  lies.— 
A.  Ley.  Apparently  rightly  named,  though  the  specimen 
sent  (collected  late)  is  not  especially  characteristic. — 
W. M.R. 
R.  hirtifolius  Muell  &  Wirtg.  Mitcheldean  Meend,  * 
W.  Glos.,  v.c.  84,  Sept.  8,  1909.  Locally  common  in  'crtwtf.K 
moorland  fences  on  Mitcheldean  Meend,  at  an  altitude 
of  about  600  to  700  feet.— A.  Ley.  Yes.— W.M.R. 
R.  lasioclados  Focke.  Near  Longville,  Salop,  on  open 
wooded  ground  at  the  top  of  Wenlock  Edge,  v.c.  40,  July 
23  and  Sept.  2,  1909.  Panicle  nearly  typical ;  stem  not 
typical,  the  prickles  being  less  robust  and  less  frequently 
curved  than  in  type.  Not  a  new  County  record. — A.  Ley. 
Rightly  named,  I  believe. — W.M.R. 
