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spot indicated in Prof. Babington’s ‘ British Rubi,’ as “ by the tramroad 
above Bed brook.” 
Rubus pyramidalis, Bab. Handsworth Wood, Birmingham. “ This I 
look upon as a form about midway between pallidus and the original 
pyramidalis as found at Llanberis and in Devonshire. This plant differs 
from that by its quinate leaflets, more compound panicle, more abundant 
prickles and fewer setae, etc. T have seen forms substantially identical 
with it in Westmoreland, Yorkshire, and Devon.” — J. G. Baker. 
Rosa britannica, Desegl. “ First observed by a friend of Mr. F. Arnold 
Lees, to grow, early this year, by the shore of Menai, near the Suspension 
Bridge, Carnarvonshire. I saw only one bush at edge of brushwood 
over the beach.” — J. Harbord Lewis. 
Cratoegus oxyacanthoides ? “ Some examples sent thus labelled, to 
illustrate the cross combinations of character. Here we have the less 
lobed leaves of oxyacanthoides combined with the pubescent calyx of 
eriocarpa or monogyna , the styles being single or double or forked. In 
other instances, the deeply lobed or incised leaves of the latter accompany 
the glabrous calyx or the double styles of the former. Are these hybrids ? 
— few plants are more frequented by insects than Cratoegus .” — H. C. 
Watson. 
Pyrus communis , var. Briggsii , Syme (provisionally), E. C. Rep., 1870. 
Flowering specimens of the plant, and some with spines. “ What is 
very remarkable is the late period — the beginning of May — at which it 
flowers, corresponding as to this, not with our pears generally, which are 
in blossom quite a fortnight or three weeks before, but with the apple and 
crab, or being a few days later than the last in unfolding its petals.” 
‘ .Tourn. Bot.,’ vol. ix., p. 215. — T. R. Archer Briggs. 
Pyrus rupicola, Syme. Silverdale, near the Westmoreland border, 
North Lancashire. — Charles Bailey. 
Pyrus scandica, Bab. (var. Mougeotti) . “ The odour of the flowers of 
this is very sickly and disagreeable in the Devonshire plant.” — T. R. 
Archer Briggs. 
Claytonia alsinoides, Sims. Hayfield, Derbyshire. — R. H. Alcock. 
(Enanthe pimpinelloides, L. Botley, Southampton. “ This is a very 
common plant in this immediate neighbourhood. It grows in greatest 
profusion in meadows sloping down to the banks of the tidal river 
Hamble. It does not grow on ground overflowed at high tide, but there 
it is replaced by CEnanthe lachenalii , which grows in some abundance in 
the salt marshy ground.” — G. S. Streatfeilh. 
