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Rubus erythrinus , Gen. Wentwood, Monmouthshire, 25th Septem- 
ber, 1890. — This form seems to be abundant in the lower parts of the 
Wye valley, both in Monmouth and West Gloucester. I have old 
specimens from Lower Redbrook (Gloucester) which I believe to be 
undoubtedly this. Last year (1889) I found it when botanising in 
company with Mr. W. A. Shoolbred abundantly between Tintern 
village and Chepstow Park wood (Monmouth) : and this year again 
in a wooded bank at Bigsweir (Monmouth). What I believe to be 
the same plant occurs in many places in Herefordshire. In the 
Bigsweir specimens the petals were pinkish, stamens pinkish-white, 
and styles yellow-green. — A ugustin Ley. “ Uninistakeably right.” 
W. Moyle Rogers and E. F. Linton. 
R. • Marshy ground, Coughton, Herefordshire, 15th 
September, 1890.— I believe this to be substantially the same plant 
as I have formerly sent up from different Herefordshire stations 
under the name of “ erubescens , Wirtg.,” but which I see Professor 
Babington now wishes to call “ rubicolor , Blox.” The localities in 
which I have seen it growing are always distinctly marshy thickets ; 
and its extremely drawn out panicle does not seem to be due to its 
growing in dense shade. The Coughton plant (though from a different 
bush from that from which the specimens sent to the Club were 
picked) had the stamens white, styles green. — A ugustin Ley. I 
have not received any satisfactory determination of this Coughton 
plant. There is, however, no doubt in my mind that it is the shade- 
grown form of marshy ground of R. erythrinus , Genev. It matches 
exactly specimens I gathered in August last in a wet part of a Dorset 
wood, where I was able to note the transition to the usual form (like 
Mr. Ley’s Wentwood specimens) growing in a drier part of the same 
wood. — E. F. Linton. 
R. rhamnifolius , W. and N. ; Baker. Hedges in lane from 
Knutsford towards Plumbley, behind the gaol, Cheshire, 23rd Aug., 
1890 . — Charles Bailey. “ Right for aggregate.” — W. Moyle 
Rogers. 
R. near to rhamnifolius , W. and N. ; Baker, Near Beili Einon, 
on the road between Llandrindod and Cefnllys, Radnorshire, 6th 
October, 1890 . — Charles Bailey. “ Can scarcely be considered as 
true R. rhamnifolius .” — Dr. W. O. Focke. 
R. rhamnifolius , W. and N. ; Baker. On the roadside near Cwm 
Yrfon, Llanwrtyd, Breconshire, 8th October, 1890 . — Charles Bailey. 
“ Same as the next above, and probably the same as the two treated 
in the following note.” — E. F. L. 
R. rhamnifolius , W. and N. ; Baker. Wood, Tan-y-graig, in the 
neighbourhood of Llandrindod, Radnorshire, 2nd October, 1890. 
Also, hedges in high road, Romiley, Cheshire, 30th August, 1890. — 
Charles Bailey. “Not R. rhamnifolius ; but it may be of Baker. 
I should have called it R. macrophyllus , glabratus ; but now place it 
with the glabratus and others, such as R. Neumanni and R. amphi- 
chloros , and Bloxam’s R. umbrosus ( = his R. carpinfolius) under the 
aggregate name of R. nemoralis , Miill., published in 1858 in Pollichia.” 
— C. C. Babington. 
