REPORT FOR 1897. 
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Medicago arabica , Huds. Fields near Windsor, June 1894. New 
county record. — G. C. Druce. 
Trifolium hybridum , L. Ship Canal banks, Eastham, Cheshire, 
28th July 1897. If correctly named, it differs from the plant as I have 
usually found it, in its smaller head and quite prostrate, much-branched 
stems. — J. A. Wheldon. “Correct.” — E. G. Baker. “Yes; certainly 
not T. elegans.”—] . Freyn. 
Vida Cracca , L., white flowered. Canal side, near New Stanton, 
Derby, 16th July 1897. — W. R. Linton. 
V. Cracca , L.;var. incana , Thuill. Whitnash, Warwickshire, August 
1897. — H. Bromwich. “ This is identical with plants which had been 
so named for me. I incline to believe it a state, due to dry and ex- 
posed situations.” — E. S. Marshall. “ This seems a not uncommon 
state of the type.” — W. R. Linton. “ Correct.” — J. Freyn. 
Lathy rus tuberosus, Linn. In the corn at Fyfield, Essex, June 
1895. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Rubus plicatus , W. and N., var. hemisiemon (P. J. Muell.). The 
Budletts Common, near Uckfield, June and August 1897 ; and Fair- 
hazel Brooks, near Uckfield, East Sussex, July and August 1897. — 
E. H. Farr. “ Thus named by me for Mr. Farr, together with the 
other brambles collected by him for the Club in 1897 — to be noticed 
further on. This hemistevion seems quite typical, and, like many of 
the forms found by Mr. Farr in East Sussex, identical with those 
which occur in the Witley and Milford neighbourhood in the south- 
west corner of Surrey. It would be especially interesting to ascertain 
to what extent they are also found in the intervening thirty miles or 
so.” — W. Moyle Rogers. 
R. plicatus , var. R. Bertramii , G. Br. Llanwrtyd, Breconshire, 
14th July 1897 ; Nantymwyn, Carmarthen, August 1897. Both of 
these verified by the Rev. W. M. Rogers. The most abundant, and 
one of the most beautiful, of the group of suberect brambles in this part 
of Wales. The fruit is large, black, and abundantly produced ; the 
fruiting calyx clasping. R. plicatus, W. and N., is far more rare. — 
Augustin Ley, “ Mr. Ley and I have together examined this and 
the other brambles contributed by him to the Club in 1897, and 
are agreed as to the names he has affixed to them. Var. Bertramii 
will be found described at considerable length in Focke, ‘ Syn. R. G.,’ 
p. 1 1 7. Much of our British R. plicatus seems better placed under it, 
than assigned to the type; but the stamens are often longer than in 
these Brecon and Carmarthen specimens. Compare ‘Report’ for 
1895, p. 473.” — W. M. Rogers. 
R. nitidus, W. and N. Wood near Pensford, North Somerset, 
June and August 1896. Named by Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, but 
certainly differing from the Hants and Dorset plants. The leaves of 
barren shoots were but ill developed in 1896, although my gathering 
