440 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Rubus Dumno 7 iiensis, Bab. Yate Common, West Gloucestershire, 
nth July, 1894. This addition to the flora of Gloucestershire was 
pointed out by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers on a recent visit. Before that 
the plant had been considered to be calvatus^ in accordance with the 
opinion of a leading botanist given many years ago. — Jas. W. White. 
R. , Near the tram stables, Walton, Lancs., 29th August, 
1894. — J. A. Wheldon. “ a. 7 nercicus^ Bagnall, var. bracieaius, 
Bagnall, ‘Journ. Bot.,’ 1894, 187; a weak form or state of it. 
Specimens submitted by me to Mr. Bagnall with this suggestion 
have drawn from him the following note : ‘ Mr. Wheldon’s plant 
from Walton, S. W. Lancs., exactly resembles R. juerckus, var. 
bractealus^ in the form it assumes when growing in quarries or rocky 
places, as with us in the stone quarries at Hartshill and at Corley 
Rock. In these places it is weaker in its growth and arcuate- 
prostrate in habit. The petals of the Warwickshire plant are white 
at first, but afterwards assume a pale pink colour j but possibly soil 
influence may cause the petals to be permanently pink. I should 
have no hesitation in placing these specimens from Walton under 
R. mercicuSf var. bracteatusJ Mr. Wheldon writes : — ‘ Petals small, 
pink ; filaments white ; styles yellowish-green. Noticed for the last 
three years, its prostrate stems forming dense low thickets.’ Hitherto 
recorded from Warwickshire only.” — W. M. Rogers. 
R. mercicus, Bag., var. bracteatus, Bag. Near Hartshill, Warwick- 
shire, 20th August, 1894. This very marked variety of R. mercicus 
may be distinguished at sight from the type by its longer and more 
pyramidal panicle and more numerous and larger bracts. In 
Warwickshire it is more abundant than the type, occurring in hedges 
and quarries from Radford to Hartshill, Wolvey and Shilton. — 
J. E. Bagnall. 
R. grains, Focke. Near Obe, S. Harris, 25th July, 1894. — W. 
A. Shoolbred. Mr. Shoolbred states that it has been submitted 
to Mr. Rogers. 
R. grains, Focke? (i) Fazackerly, Liverpool, 22nd July, 1894. 
Stems erect arcuate. Pdowers very large and handsome, pink, strongly 
recalling apple blossom in size and tint. (2) Aintree, Liverpool, 17th 
July, 1894. Apparently the same as the plant sent from Fazackerly, 
but in this the petals are nearly white, with the faintest blush of pink. 
(3) Hedges, Walton, Liverpool, 20th July, 1894. When the petals fall 
the sepals are reflexed, but they soon become patent and at length 
loosely embrace the fruit. Petals pinkish white. (4) Var. with the 
sepals abnormally developed into leaves. Thickets, Walton, Lancashire. 
Petals pale pink, ist August, 1894. — J. A. Wheldon. “All four 
packets good grains. But in the foliaceous-sepaled packet (Walton) 
some of the leaves much more finely toothed than usual. Can there 
be a mixture here ? ” — W. M. Rogers. 
R. ramosus, Briggs. Egg Buckland and Bickleigh Vale, S. 
Devon, June, 1893, and 3rd July, 1894. Rather weak but still 
characteristic specimens of this well-marked species, which has as yet 
been found only in Devon and Cornwall, though locally abundant 
there. — W. Moyle Rogers. 
