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HEREFORDSHIRE RUBI. 169 Var. b. suBiNERMis Eogers. Florae 620 (as R. macrophyllus W.). In open woods, very local. Bisliopswood and Hope Mansel parishes in the south, in abundance over a wooded area of about one square mile, and extending into West Gloucester, but unknown elsewhere. This is a remarkable and handsome plant, assuming in the above locality an almost suberect growth. First notice (of the variety), Journ. Bot. 1895, 78. E. THYRSoiDEus Wimm. (sp. collect.). Exclude k. thyrsoideus Wimm. Flora, 88. Included in the Herefordshire Flora on the faith of a single specimen (Cowleigh Park, Malvern, on the eastern border of the county, 1887), which has been, however, assigned to this species with confidence both by Dr. Focke and Eev. W. M. Eogers. First notice, Journ. Bot. 1895, 78. E. siLVATicus W. & N. Flora, 94 (under B. macrophyllus W.). Woods and thickets, rare. Gathered at one locality (Eigg's Wood, Sellack) in the south, and one (Hampton Court) in the centre of the county. Abundant in the Honddu Valley, Black Mountain ; a locality strictly in Monmouthshire, but included in the Hereford- shire Flora. First notice, Journ. Bot. 1895, 78. E. MACROPHYLLUS (sp. COllcct.) Var. a. MACROPHYLLUS W. & N. Flora, 98, 94 [ex parte). In woods and thickets, rare. Haugh Wood in the south, Presteign and Aymestry in the north, Pont Esgob in the west of the county, and probably at other stations ; but I still speak with diffidence on this bramble. Var. b. ScHLECHTENDALii (W.). Flora, 94 [ex parte). Abundant nearly throughout Herefordshire, and usually an easily recognised plant, not exhibiting much variation. It is found in hedges and open thickets, not often in woods. Var. d. AMPLiFicATus (Lees). Flora, 9i. Very rare. Known at one station only in the south of the county, in St. Weonard's parish, where it was gathered as far back as 1880. E. Salteri Bab. Flora, 90 (ex parte), 519. In woods and open rough ground ; very local. Abundant at Aconbury and its neigh- bourhood, on the borders of the south and central districts, but not known elsewhere in Herefordshire or the neighbouring counties. E. Sprengelii W. Flora, 96 (as R. Sprengelii W., var. Borreri Bell Salt.). Eare and local in Herefordshire ; at one station near Kington in the north, and at two in the south of the county on the borders of the Forest of Dean. Increasing in frequency in West Gloucestershire, in the Forest of Dean itself. R. orthoclados, n. sp. Stem bluntly angular, green, suberect; hairy, with few nearly sessile glands. Prickles uniform, slender, declining, almost subulate, mostly confined to the angles. Leaves 3-5nate pedate ; terminal leaflet short-stalked, ovate or elliptic, gradually acuminate, with long point; intermediate similar, basal subsessile, imbricate. Leaflets green on both sides, with scattered hairs above, and short stiff hair beneath ; veins prominent beneath, impressed above ; toothing shallow, irregular. Panicle irregularly pyramidal, with blunt top ; rachis zigzag ; prickles very few, acicular. Branches 3-5-flowered, ultra- axillary part short, with patent 1-3- flowered branches, and subsessile primordial flower. Peduncles,