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217 HEREFORDSHIKE RUBI. By the Rev. Augustin Ley. (Concluded from p. 162.) R. Radula (sp. collect.), var. a. Radula W. Flora, 99, 522. Woods and thickets, rare. At Welsh Newton, at Gorstley, and at three or four other localities in the south of the county ; not seen elsewhere. Var. b. ANGLicANUS Rogers. Flora, 96 (under R. mucronulatus Blox.), 99 (as R. Radula W.). Woods and thickets, rare. Carey Wood, Brockhampton, and at one or two other stations scattered over the south of the county ; not seen elsewhere. First record, Joimi. Bot. 1895, 82. Var. c. echinatoides Rogers. Still more rare than the last? At Walford [teste Rogers), and at Gorstley in the south. Unknown elsewhere. It is curious that all the above forms of R. Radula should be confined to a few stations in the south of the county. Var. d. sEKTiFLORUs P. J. Muell. Flora, 94 (under R. macro- phyllus W.), 522. In woods ; locally abundant. From Penyard Park Wood, Ross, ranging through nearly all the large woods northwards to Rotherwas Park Wood in the centre, and in many of them abundantly. At a single station at Shucknell Hill in the east. R. regillus, n. sp. Flora, 522 (as R. debilis BouL). Stem bluntly angled, thick and branched below, forming a low arch, yellow-green or pink-green in* exposure, hairy, glaucous, with slender, declining, rather scattered and unequal prickles, from enlarged bases, numerous acicles and unequal stalked glands, very leafy. Leaves 3-5nate-pedate, leaflets large, green on both sides, upper surface nearly smooth, under slightly hairy. Serration coarse and uneven. Terminal leaflet with shoi-t stalk, oblong, flat, suddenly contracting into a conspicuous acumen ; lateral similar, rather smaller, nearly sessile. Panicle lax, hairy, with declining prickles, and stalked glands more numerous upwards, leafy nearly to the top, with short, ascending, racemose branches below, and a nearly racemose top. Panicle-leaves ternate, similar to tiiose of the stem. Sepals ovate-acuminate, with long hair externally, reflexed in flower and fruit. Petals white, obovate, ciliate ; stamens white, exceeding the green styles ; fruit well-formed. Woods and hedges. Abundant in Queen's Wood and Linton Wood on the south-east borders of Herefordshire ; Haywood, West Gloucester. The above localities all adjoin, and form a large woodland area, in which the plant grows at intervals, both in woods and hedges, over an area of at least three square miles. See the remarks of Rev. W. M. Rogers on this bramble in Journ. Bot. 1892, 302, 303, under R. cognatus N. E. Br. The mostly ternate leaves, with nearly equal leaflets, the narrow lax panicle, and the yellow-green of the whole plant are conspicuous features. R. poDOPHYLLus P. J. MucU. In heathy woods ; rare ? Dis- covered last year in a hilly wood, Hope Mansel, on the southern