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 HEREFORDSHIRE RUBI. 16X sepals ascend and clasp the fruit. It varies in Herefordshire with white or pink petals ; but the form {R. conspicum Auct.) bearing handsome deep red flowers is rare in the county. Var. b. GYMNosTACHYs (Genev.). Kough banks and woods, rare. Walford and Bishopswood in the south ; first discovered by Rev. W. M. Rogers in 1891. Set of British Rubi, 1892-1895 (No. 14). First notice, Journ. Bot. 1895, 80. Var. c. ANGusTiFOLius Rogers. See Flora, 90. Woods and hedges ; locally abundant on the Doward Hills in the south, occurring both in the centre and north of the county. This is a very well marked variety in Herefordshire. First notice, Journ. Bot. 1895, 80. R. cuRviDENs A. Ley. See Flora, 90, 91 (under R. Salteri Bab.) ; 94, 95 (under R. Schlechtendalii W.). Woods and thickets, not in hedges, rather rare. Known in about eight localities in the south, centre, and west of the county. Sellack ; Aconbury ; Belmont ; Dinmore. R. MUCRONATUS Blox. Flora, 95 (ex parte). Widely distributed in woods and wood-borders, but rather scarce. Noticed in all ex- cept the western districts of the county. Carey and Caplar Woods in the south, Belmont in the centre, Whitney in the north. Two, if not three, strains of this bramble are found in Herefordshire : — (1) a plant with long-stalked single flowers in the panicle, ap- proaching R. glabratus Bab. ; (2) a plant with leaves nearly all ternate, approaching R. pitlcherrimus Neum. ; (3) a plant with thick, densely woolly leaves, approaching R. leucostachys Schleich. I have, however, the authority of Rev. W. M. Rogers for uniting all these plants under R. mucronatus Blox. R. Gelertii Frider. var. criniger Linton. In woods, rare. Two stations are known for this bramble : Little Doward in the south, Lingen in the north of the county, in both of which the name rests on the authority of Rev. W. M. Rogers. It will doubt- less be found at other places. First found, 1892 ; first notice, Journ. Bot. 1895, 81. R. ANGLOSAXONicus Golcrt. Flora, 94 (under R. macrophyllus W.). Thickets and open woods. The type seems to be a rare plant in Herefordshire, the only stations yet known being two or three in the south, near Ross. Var. b. RADULoiDEs Rogers. Rare; one station in the south (Chase Wood, near Ross), one in the east (Westhide Wood). Var. c. SETULosus Rogers. Flora, 100 (as R. Koehleri W. var. infestus). Widely distributed and locally abundant, especially in the south and south-west of the county. Known at a single station in each of the central, north, and west divisions, this plant becomes a marked feature of the bramble vegetation in some of the hilly woods of the Ross district, whence it follows the Monmouth- shire portion of the Wye Valley in great abundance as far as Tintern. It is a very marked plant, attracting attention by its bright red stems and exaggerated armature, and standing quite midway between anglosaxonicus and forms of Koehleri, or even in- festus W. Journal op Botany. — Vol. 34. [April, 1896.] m