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 A SUPPLEMENT TO THE 'FLORA VECTENSIS.' 141

isliiud, keeping- its characters well, as it does in Yorkshire, not running into other things (^leucostachys, mucrophyllus, etc.) as it does about Lon- don. The universal Vectiau form is the common English one, R. rmti- canus of E. Mercier and Genevier.

R. c<esius, L. Tolerably common, but not so much as it often is. A remarkai)ly prickly form by the roadside at Norton,

R. thyrsoidens, VVimm. A form agreeing with the plant of Bloxam's fasciculi, on the commons at Colwell and Hampstead.

R. leucostachys, Sm. Everywhere common about Shanklin, but not seen along the tlndercliff, where, indeed, there is little else but discolor ; leucostachys gathered also in several places about Newport, and in a hedge midway between Yarmouth and Freshwater Gate, and a shade form in Beckett's Copse.

R. Salteri, Bab, The original place at x\pse woods, is a good station for studying this, as it runs up from the original Salteri into Bloxam's large strong caloatus. I saw it also in several other places about Colwell, Calbourne, and Ningwood.

R. carpinifolim, W. et N. Just Bloxam's plant {lunhrosm, Arrh.), in the Calamintha syhatica dell, at Apes Down,

R. macrophyltus, Weihe. In a lane, near the stream just out of Cal- bourne, westward. Bloxam's macrophyllus, which is Babington's only in part.

R. ritdis, Weihe. Very characteristic, in the lane between Calbourne and the Apes Down farmhouse.

R. Sprengelii, Weihe, var. Borreri. Roadside, half a mile out of New- port towards Eyde.

R. fusco-ater, of Bloxam and Babington's last two editions. Colwell Heath, sparingly.

R. nemoroHus, of Babington's earlier editions and Bloxam's fasciculus, including under this name the dlcersifulhis and tuhercidatus of Babing- ton's last edition ; it is common about Freshwater, Yarmouth, and Shal- fleet ; varying much in the quantity and strength of the prickles, and the stem either without hairs or with a considerable quantity.

R. rosacens, Weihe. Hedge out of Newport or little westward, and fine in Beckett's Copse, near Freshwater. Two common Brambles 1 did not see anywhere, were Radula and pallidas, the latter a universal wood Bramble wherever else in England I have been."

\Jiosa Sablni, Woods. Mr. J. G. Baker has informed me that he saw a specimen labelled, as found in the Isle of Wight, in Mr. Watson's collection of British Roses, which was destroyed by the fire which also consumed the whole of Mr. Baker's own herbarium. Possibly this may be identical with the plant mentioned by Bromfield as growing at Apse Heath.]

R. tomenlosa, Sm. Bembridge, St. Helens, Combley Wood, Shanklin, etc. ; usually in small quantity, but abundant in many places near Gods- hill. In a lane south of Calbourne (J. G. Baker). I have not seen R. villosa, L. (mollissima, Willd.).

fR. riibiginosa, L. Pasture-field above the Bathing House of Bem- bridge Lodge. Landslip, not far from Bonchurch. Among Furze, on St. George's Down, near Newport (F. Stratton). Satisfactorily wild, growing with R. micrantha, in the lane along the foot of Westovcr Wood, near Caiburne (J. G. Baker). I fear that this is always sown by birds or otherwise introduced.

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