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 168 HEREFORDSHIBE RUBI. Schl. var. vestitus). Locally abundant in many parts of the county. Ross and Gorstley districts, in the south, extending into the central districts at Aconbury ; Malvern and other districts in the east. Unknown at present in the north and west. Var. b. ROBusTus (P. J. MuelL). Still more local than the type. Abundant in St. Weonard's parish, in the south ; seen at two other stations, one in the south, one in the north of the county. Var. c. CLivicoLA, nov. var. Flora, 519 (as R. montanus Wirtg.). Stem arched, angled, with many scattered hairs, red in exposure. Prickles uniform, strong, slightly declining, bright rosy red at base, with yellow tip. Leaves quinate or 5-pedate ; leaflets small, not imbricate, lowest very shortly stalked, peduncle and midrib armed with strong sharp prickles. Leaflets with cloge white or ash-coloured felt underneath. Terminal leaflets long-stalked, rowidish cuspidate- acuminate, all the leaflets deeply doubly serrate, with conspicuously waved edges, green above, ashy white beneath. Flowering branch with many strong thorns, which are similar to those of the stem. Rachis hairy, glandular especially in the lower part, branched and slightly wavy below, the ultra -axillary part long, nearly cylindrical, with patent, 1-3-flowered, often 1-flowered branches. Fruit round, rather small, freely produced. Sepals ovate- acuminate, reflexed in flower and fruit, with ash-coloured felt. Flowers cup-shaped ; petals white or faintly rose-coloured ; stamens longer than, ultimately connivent on, the yellow-green styles. The ash-coloured felt of the leaves, the waved edges and prominent veins of the small leaflets ; the subrotund, somewhat obtuse-angular shape of the terminal one ; and the patent, 1- or 1-3-flowered upper branches of the panicle, are characteristic. The stem bears some, sometimes many, sessile glands ; rachis and pedicels bear many ; the latter bear also numerous hooked prickles. Clearly in its place as a variety of B. argentatus P. J. Muell., with which plant it was associated by Dr. Focke, who saw it growing, and by Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. Native in woods, thickets, and hedges, especially in hill districts. Distribution. — Monmouthshire: Near Trelleck ; Honddu Valley, abundantly. West Gloucester : Flaxley and Longhope Valleys. Herefordshire : Occurring in all the divisions of the county, but especially abundant in the hilly districts to the west, under the Black Mountain. Breconshire : Very abundant in the mountain valleys and subalpine ground in the Brecon Beacon range. Glyn Tarell; ascending to 1300 ft. in Glyn CoUwng, at Torpantau tunnel mouth. In the neighbourhood of Crickhowell. Montgomery : At the junction of the Tarenig and the Wye. Oxfordshire: Wormsley Wood, Pcev. W. Moyle Eogers R. RUSTiCANUs Merc. Flora, 87 (as B. discolor W. & N.). Very widely distributed in the county, and absent from no district. Hybrids of B. rusticanus are of rather frequent occurrence, and have been noticed with the following species in Herefordshire: rhamni- folius, pyramidalis, leucostachys, echi7iatus, fuscus, and corylifolius. R. PUBESCENS W. (sp. collect.). Flora, 87 {ex parte). In woods and thickets, rare and local. Caplar and one other locality in the south ; Coxwall Knoll in the north of the county.