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is produced, but not often : the tendency is for the flowers to drop 
off when shaken in collecting ; and it is very characteristic of the 
form to exhibit a number of peduncles quite innocent of flowers, 
and terminating in the blunt ends on which the flowers had grown. 
More erect than type. Mr. Druce, to whom I pointed it out, 
suggests some damage to the root. It is curious that it should 
grow frequently intermingled with the type. Is it the same 
thing as the form described by Mr. Linton in B.E.C. Report 
1901, p. 6? — H. J. Riddelsdell. “Differs from the type in 
much the same respects as a form which the Rev. W. R. Linton 
gathered on Longstone Edge, Derbyshire, in 1898, and near 
Baslow, and at first thought a variety, then a starved or de- 
pauperate state. An account of it is given in the ‘ Flora of 
Derbyshire,’ p. 107. It agrees with much of the description of 
L. symtneiricus, Jord. {Pug., p. 59), but of this I have not 
seen specimens ; and I suspect that these specimens owe their 
peculiarities to deficient nutrition.” — E. F. Linton. “Apparently 
villosus, Ser.” — W. R. Linton. 
RubuS. The Rev. W. Moyle Rogers has kindly examined 
specimens of all the plants of this genus, and except where 
otherwise stated confirms the names. 
Rubus idcBus, L., var. obtusifolius, Willd. Garden hybrid : 
Sellack ; 2nd June 1904. This is, I believe, the state of R. obtusi- 
folius called “ rotundifolius ” by Prof. Babington, which is stated by 
Rev. VV. M. Rogers to have been a “ garden hybrid.” Originally 
appearing in the garden of a friend at Walford, Herefordshire, 
I have cultivated it alongside of ordinary R. obtusifolius for some 
years. It keeps about twice the size of this, and produces flowers 
on the stems of the year. — Augustin Ley. 
R. affinis, Wh. and N., var. Briggsianus Rogers {Journ. 
Bot. 1894, p. 42). Moor to south and south-west of the Moorland 
Hotel, below Hey Tor, Dartmoor, S. Devon. At about i,iooft. 
above sea-level, August 12, 1904. Abundant and clearly insepara- 
ble from the plant so frequent about Plymouth {R. affinis, FI. Flym.), 
though often with less strongly developed panicle, as might be 
expected at 1,100 ft. above the sea. Here, as elsewhere in the 
West of England, in Kerry and in the Channel Islands, it keeps 
quite distinct from R. affinis, Wh. and N., and R. nitidus, Wh. 
and N., though clearly intermediate between them. — W. Moyle 
Rogers. 
R. imbricatus, Hort, var. londinensis, Kogers, Journ. Bot., 1903, 
pp. 89 — 90. Barnes Common, 20 Aug. 1902 ; Oxshott Heath, 
3rd and 24th Aug. 1903; Westend Common, Esher, 25th July 
1903 j Walton and Weybridge Commons, 15th Aug. 1903 ; Tooting 
