25 6 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
1879, and Augu st, 1 8_8 q. Wolvey, Warwickshire, 15th August, 1885. 
Austrey, Warwickshire, August, 1885. Stem arcuate prostrate 
angular. Aciculi few ; setce many equal, very short. Hairs few or none. 
Prickles few , subequal , mostly confined to the angles, patent. Leaves 
quinate and ternate, crenate serrate, all stalked, naked above, hairy 
£ ^ , on the veins, rarely felted beneath ; terminal leaflet roundish 
cuspidate, with a subcordate base. Flowering stem prostrate; 
/- . flower shoot short, slightly hairy, setose, aciculate ; prickles slightly 
declining ; panicle short, blunt topped ; prickles longest about the 
middle ; branches short corymbose ; terminal flower, shorter than the 
reflexed sepals. Petals white distant, ovate, clawed, rounded and 
slightly denticulate at end. Filaments white, anthers cream, after- 
wards fuscous, longer than the green styles. Differs from R. Bloxamii 
in the dentition of leaves, patent prickles, absence of hairs, 
reflexed sepals, and is far less hairy on the panicle. Prof. Babington 
in 1882 suggested that it might be small Bloxa 7 nii , but small forms 
of Bloxamii occur in the Hartshill district ; they are always more 
hairy plants, with thinner and more acuminate, lobate serrate leaves, 
never felted even in the young state. In Bloxamiana the young leaves 
are white felted, but this clothing is very deciduous. I have watched 
R. Bloxamiana in the Hartshill locality for sixteen years, and 
although abundant it never seems to vary in its characteristics. It 
only occurs so far as my own knowledge serves in the Anker basin 
in Warwickshire. It occurs in the basin of the Sence in Leicestershire; 
this river is a tributary to the Anker. In Warwickshire I find it on 
Ansley Coalfield, near Hartshill Hayes and near Hartshill ; in each of 
these districts R. Bloxamii is abundant. It also occurs at Austrey, 
at a point where the counties of Leicester and Warwick meet, on 
both sides of the boundary line, and near Wolvey, some four or five 
miles south of this ; in these two localities R. Bloxamii is absent over 
a large area. A somewhat similar plant was sent to me in 1884 by 
the Rev. R. P. Murray from Quantock above Broomfield. Mr. 
Murray’s plant differs from the Warwickshire plant in the presence of 
abundant short hairs, and more abundant weaker declining 
prickes on the barren stem, and in the more hairy panicle, but seems 
to belong to R. Bloxamiana. R. Bloxamiana appears to be 
midway between R. Bloxamii and R. scaber , and Mr. Murray’s 
plant appears to be a connecting link. I believe the Quantock plant 
was named R. scaber by Dr. Focke. — J. E. Bagnall. “ This may 
be distinct, but it has very much the appearance of a less felted, or 
even nearly glabrous-leaved form of R. Radula where Purchas placed 
it (J. of B., xxiv., p. 102).” — C. C. Babington. 
Rubus , near Radula , W. and N. ; Baker. On the Charmouth road, 
in the neighbourhood of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, 10th July, 1889. — 
Charles Bailey. “ There must be some mistake, I suppose, in 
naming this plant Radula. That species is always very glandular, 
and your Dorset plant has no glandular bristles at all. The latter 
agrees in many respects with R. Questierii, a common plant of 
western France, growing in the Channel Islands. The ordinary 
R. Questierii has a few glandular setae on the rachis and whitish-felted 
