5 1 S THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THF, BRITISH ISLES. 
Riilnis rosaceus ; var. silvestris , R. P. Murray. Wood, near Ince 
Blundell, S. W. Lancs , 20th August 1896. Stems quite prostrate, 
long, and slender. Petals narrow, stellate, bright pink. — J. A. Wlieldon. 
“Rightly named, I believe.” — W. M. R. 
R. ? Wood, near Ingleton, West Yorkshire, 1st November 
1896. Frequent in the narrow wooded gorges in the Craven district. 
Stem arcuate prostrate ; stamens exceeding styles ; petals pink, 
lanceolate, not contiguous. — J. A. Wheldon. “R. Koehler i, W. and N.; 
var. pallidus , Bab. (non W. and N. ); a common Yorkshire bramble.”-- 
W. M. R. 
R. cognatus, N.E. Br. Holmbush, W. Sussex, 21st July 1896. — 
Jas. W. White. “ I think rightly named, though it is not so 
conspicuously Koehlerian as the Surrey cognatus.” — W.M.R. 
R. hostilis , Muell. and Wirtg. (1) Wood at Ryarsh, W. Kent, in 
great quantity, 13th August 1896 ; and (2) Tunbridge Wells Common, 
W. Kent, also in plenty, 31st August 1896. On specimens from both 
localities Dr. Focke has written to me “ I think small R. hostilis .” 
On a very closely allied form from Offham, near Ryarsh, he wrote 
without any qualifying words “ R. hostilis , Muell. and Wirtg.;” and on 
another stronger but hardly different plant from Battle, E. Sussex, 
“var. of R. hostilis , I think.” He is disposed to regard R. hostilis as 
a synonym of R. pallidus , Bab. ; but it seems to me impossible to put 
any of these Kent and Sussex plants with Babington’s familiar north 
country “pallidus.” They are new to me, and are best placed, I 
should think, somewhere between that and R. viridis, Kalt.” — W. 
Moyle Rogers. 
R. Kaltenbachii , Metsch. By the Avon at Hanham, West 
Gloucester, 5th July 1896. In this district, where R. hirtus does 
not grow, R. Kaltenbachii has the appearance of a distinct type, and 
presents well-marked, unvarying features. Local experience, therefore, 
would induce me to class this bramble separately, rather than as a 
segregate of R. hirhis. Since I recorded the plant for West Gloucester- 
shire (see ‘Report’ for 1891, p. 333), we have come across several new 
localities in the vice-county. A few good specimens may be accept- 
able to members. — Jas. W. White. “ Just what I understand by 
the name R. Kaltenbachii.” — W. M. R. 
R. hirtus , W. and K.; var. flaccidifolius , P. J. Muell. Woburn 
Sands, Bucks, 15th July 1895. Most abundant in woodland on the 
Bucks side of the county boundary ; but also noticed in small 
quantity at a spot which I believe to be across the border, in 
Bedfordshire. This is the same plant which we are issuing in the 
‘Supplementary Fascicle of British Rubi,’ No.. 129; as yet it is known 
from no other locality in the British Isles. The reflexed sepals are the 
most apparent distinction from other hirtus forms. — E. F. Linton, 
“Named by Dr. Focke.” — W. M. R. 
