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ganshire. The effect of colouring, in a large mass of this plant, 
with its white flowers, clasping sepals, and purplish or purple stem, 
rachis and petioles, with full dark green leaves, is one of the most 
distinctive primd facie points about it. Small forms of it, such 
as grow on stony ground, simulate leucostachys in habit, and in 
colour and shape of leaflet ; though, of course, very distinct in 
armature, &c. Very large panicles are not unusual. Mr. Rogers 
has seen part of each separate gathering sent. — H. J. Riddelsdell. 
This appears to be essentially, although not absolutely, the same as 
a plant known to me in West Sussex for very many years ; and 
for which I have repeatedly but unsuccessfully endeavoured to 
obtain recognition as a species new to Britain. I am glad to 
find that through Mr. Riddelsdell’s gatherings this contention has at 
length been admitted. The paper published by Messrs. Rogers and 
Ley (‘Journ. Bot.,’ 1906, p. 60) states that this bramble was first 
found and named by Dr. Focke in 1897. But, as is noted by 
Mr. Rogers in the B.E.C. Report for 1892, I had in 1891 for- 
warded examples to Dr. Focke, and had received from him the 
opinion, “a small form of R. saxicolusV Under that name I 
confess to having distributed a large number of specimens, both 
at home and abroad, without I fear ever holding faith in the deter- 
mination. I trust that so handsome and distinct-looking a plant 
may now have been permanently fitted to even this ugly name, but 
from late experience one judges that for mutability bramble-nomen- 
clature must be hard to beat. — Jas. W. White. 
R. Kaltenbachii, Metsch. Buddon Wood, Leics., July 1905. 
From a bush pointed out by Rev. W. M. Rogers.— W. Bell. The 
specimens show a rampant form of this bramble. — Ed. 
R. tereticaulis, P. J. Muell. Big Wood, Wormbridge, Hereford- 
shire, 4th August 1905. — S. H. Bickham. “ The panicle here is less 
compound and much closer above than in the Norfolk plant which 
was thus named by Dr. Focke in 1887 — Prof. Babington afterwards 
assenting ; but, after a careful examination of a good series of 
specimens, Mr. Ley and I could see no sufficient grounds for 
keeping the two apart. At the same time it must of course be 
l)orne in mind that we are not really in a position to claim any 
strictly critical knowledge of Mueller’s species.” — W. Moyle 
Rogers. 
R. velaius, Lefv. Shady bank in Cowleigh Park, Hereford- 
shire, 31st July, 1905. — S. H. Bickham and A. Ley. “I agree. 
Very strong.” — W. M. Rogers. “ From the original station whence 
this plant was named as British by Prof. Babington. I ought, 
perhaps, to say that Cowleigh Park, including the stations both of 
this and R. Bdlardi, has recently been transferred to the county 
of Worcester.” — A. Ley. 
