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SOME ACCOUNT OF CHESHIRE RUBI. 355
4. R. affitiis, W. and N.—A decidedly northern Bramble, and here
generally and commonly distributed. Very ericetal in its stations, like
the two previous forms. This is, when dried, sometimes hard to dis-
tinguish from the R. rhamnifol'ms of Surrey heaths, but in a growing
state these Ruhi seem to rae sufficiently distinct. (1.) Between
Stockport and Mottram, near Macclesfield. (2.) General, e. g. Tabley
Lake side. (4.) Near a quarry between Eastham Hotel and Brom-
borough Park wall. (7.) Back Lane, Lower Peover, and Rudheath,
abundant. Mr. Baker has established the identity of this prevalent
Yorkshire and Cheshire form with R. nemoralis, Miill. (See Gene-
vier, p. 188.)
5. R. Lindleianus, Lees.—A most prevalent and unmistakable
form. (2.) Very common. (4.) Hesw^all Hills, near Parkgate. (7.)
Lower Peover, common.
6. R. rhamnifoUus, W. and N.—Embracing here a range of several
forms, of which the shade ones require more attention, which, if we
combine the subspecies, is hereabouts sufficiently general. I doubt if
some of these do not rather belong to R. calvatus, Blox., so I shall
only give the distribution of a form which is certainly rliamnifolius
with, flat, broadly-ovate, cuspidate, and cordate terminal leaflets densely-
grey felted beneath. (1.) Tabley Lane on Tabley Hill; hedge just
above the sand-pit. (7.) Peover, back lane, near the Brook, and
Eudheath.
7. R. discolor, W. and N.—Curiously partial and local in Mid-
Cheshire, where it bears marks of accidental importation, occurring
near canals, tan-yards, railway stations, etc., and seldom in fields or
hedges removed from the highway roads. As, however, we approach
the hilly districts of East Cheshii'e, or the sea towards the west, it be-
comes gradually more abundant. In Wirral and North Eddisbuiy,
that is to say, in littoral Cheshire, it is the prevalent Bramble. All
the discolor of Central Cheshire, which I have yet carefully examined,
seems to me the smaller, less pilose, more stunted R. rusticanus, Mer-
cier, and not the true discolor of W. and N. so general round London,
for example. The nearest Cheshire plants to this last I gathered near
Biley, Middlewich, a district in its vegetation much more markedly
southern than Knutsford, though not so many miles from it, as the
general occurrence there oi Acer and R. ccesius, L., shows ;
but, not hav-
ing seen the Bilev discolor in flower, I do not wish to record true discolor