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Rubus adenanthus, Boul. et Gil. Below Peckforton Castle, 
Cheshire, 5 August 1903. Lane at Pennsylvania, Cheshire. 
Plentiful in the above stations which are conterminous, but not 
seen elsewhere. — A. H. Wolley - Dod. These plants cannot, 
I think, be kept distinct from my Gorey Bay (Jersey), R. 
adenanthiis, though they have larger panicles, and stronger glan- 
dular and acicular development and more obovate leaflets than 
I find in my specimens. In all these particulars our R. melan- 
oxylon shows quite as wide a range of variation. New record 
for the British Isles. — W. Moyle Rogers. 
Rubus Bellardi, W. and N. Festiniog, Merioneth, 13 July 
1903. — Augustin Ley. Yes. — W. Moyle Rogers. 
Rubus Kaltenbachii^ Metsch. Newent Wood, 10 September 
1903, andS. Briavel’s, W. Gloucester., 21 September 1903. — Augus- 
tin Ley. Yes. — W. Moyle Rogers. 
Potentilla opaca, Linn. A probable escape at Kersal and 
Prestwich, near Manchester, from nursery gardens near. S.E. Lan- 
cashire. June-July 1903. — J. CosMO Melvill. This is not the 
Potentilla opaca of Linnaeus, which is allied to our P. verna^ but it 
is probably the P. opaca of Smith in ‘ E. B. ’ t. 2449, which is 
treated as synonymous with P. ifitermedia, Linn., in ‘ Index Kew- 
ensis.’ 
There is a P. intermedia, Nestl. ‘Mon. Potent.’ p. 50, which 
is referred to P. heptaphylla, Mill, in ‘ Index Kewensis,’ but Mr. 
Melvill’s plant is similar to Don’s, and it is the P. opaca of 
Don’s ‘ Herb. Brit.’ fasc. vii., No. 165, which was gathered by him 
doubtless as an escape from cultivation. 
Rouy and P'oucaud in ‘ Flore de France ’ reject, so far as France 
is concerned, the Linnean vitermedia which is described in the ‘Man- 
tissa,’ i. p. 76. Mr. Melvin’s plant is similar to a Swiss specimen in 
Herb. Oxf. labelled P. villosa, Hall., w'hich is treated as synonymous 
with the Linnean P. intermedia in ‘ Index Kewensis,’ but Nyman 
gives the geographical distribution for that plant ‘ Russia, Pdnland, 
Sweden, and North Germany,’ while P. heptaphylla. Mill, (the 
P. intermedia, Nestl), is found in Helv. Delph. Thuringia, Hun- 
gary, Pyrenees, &c. 
It is with some doubt that I identify Mr. Melvill’s plant 
with P. heptaphylla. Mill., but I have no doubt as to its not 
being P. opaca, Linn. — G. C. Druce. Coste in his ‘ Flora ’ states 
that in P. opaca the lobes of the epicalyx ought to be shorter than 
the Calyx. — E. G. Baker. 
Rosa micrantha, Sm. Tickwood, near M. Wenlock, Salop, Sept. 
1903. — W. H. Painter. New County record for Salop. 
