584 
R.  oigoclados  Muell.  &  Lefv.,  var.  R  loxamianus 
(Colem.),  ( fide  W.  Moyle  Rogers).  Billesdon  Coplow  and 
Tilton  Hill,  Leics.,  v.c.  55,  July  and  Aug.,  1904. — A.  R. 
Horwood. 
R.  melanodermis  Focke  in  “  Jl.  Bot.,”  1890,  p.  138. 
Branksome  Park,  Dorset,  v.c.  9,  July  15  and  20,  1915. — 
Coll.  Mary  A.  Rogers.  The  “  ?  endemic  ”  in  the  account 
of  this  bramble  in  my  “  Handbk.  Brit.  Rubi,”  p.  69,  may 
still  stand,  in  spite  of  M.  Sudre’s  “  determination  ” 
(“  Batotheca  Europsea,”  Fasc.  II.,  1904),  which  places  it  as 
a  subordinate  form  under  “ R .  granulatus  Mull,  et  Lef.”, 
seeing  that  Mueller  &  Lefevre’s  plant  itself  is  only 
recognised  by  Focke,  (on  Boulay’s  authority)  in  “  Sp. 
Ruborum  (Rubi  Europaei),”  1914,  as  a  hybrid  “  R.  macro- 
phyllus  X  Sprengelii ,”  which  our  R.  melanodermis  certainly 
cannot  be.  In  1889  I  showed  the  living  plant  to  Dr.  Focke 
both  in  Dorset  and  Hants.,  and  in  his  1890  article  in  “  Jl. 
Bot.”  he  rightly  characterizes  it  as  “  a  small,  low  and  very 
glandular  bramble.”  The  blackish-purple  tint  of  stem, 
petioles,  etc.,  is  very  remarkable.  The  panicle,  though 
very  lax,  is  usually  quite  short;  but  when  strongly 
developed  (as  in  most  of  these  specimens),  its  lower 
branches,  while  continuing  racemose,  become  considerably 
lengthened,  so  as  to  make  the  panicle-outline  distinctly 
pyramidal  at  last.  Locally  abundant  through  most  of 
Dorset  and  South  Hants.,  it  also  occurs  in  S.  Devon, 
W.  Glos.  and  Glamorganshire. — W.  Moyle  Rogers. 
R.  Bloxamii  Lees.  West  Cliff,  Bournemouth,  S. 
Hants.,  v.c.  11,  July  2,  1915. — Coll.  Mary  A.  Rogers. 
Comm.  W.  Moyle  Rogers. 
R.  glareosus  Rogers  &  Marshall,  f.  robusta.  “  Jl. 
Bot.,”  1912,  pp.  309 — 311  ;  1915,  p.  85.  Near  Midhurst 
and  Hesworth  Common,  Fittle worth,  W.  Sussex,  v.c.  13, 
July  22  and  30,  1915 _ F.  A.  Rogers  &  W.  Moyle  Rogers. 
These  strong  W.  Sussex  plants  have  a  somewhat  closer 
superficial  resemblance  to  R.  pallidus  Wh.  &  N.  than  can 
be  seen  in  any  of  the  slender  and  comparatively  weak 
Surrey  specimens  contributed  to  the  Wats.  B.E.C.  by  me  in 
1912.  The  sandy  surface  soil  is  the  same  in  both 
neighbourhoods,  but  the  Surrey  ground  (Farnham  to 
Hindhead)  is  barer  and  drier,  and  its  plants  in  consequence 
