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SOME ACCOUNT OF CHESHIEE BTJBI. 357
Blox.—A general form in Cheshire ; with flat, orbicular, cordate, cus-
pidate, hard, short-felted tenniual leaflets, coriaceous, approaching
rhamnifoUiis in many respects. In Sussex, Middlesex, and Surrey the
terminal lenflet is generally only broadly ovate- acuminate, the point
being attenuate, and curved sidewards, while below the leaflets are
much more softly yet thinly clothed. The last form also occurs in
Cheshire, but the orbicular cuspidate leaflet is the iide, the last the
exception. (2.) Every hedge-lane near Knutsford ; occurs also often
as an isolated bush in their pasture margins. (4.) Near Bromborough
Park wall, near Eastham Hotel. In ' Liverpool Flora ' given as car-
pbiifoliiis, that is, of Bloxam, not Babington. (7.) Biley; Lower
Peover ; very general.
14. R. macrophjllus, W., 8. ampUficatus, Lees.—Not very typical, but
still satisfying, I think, the name. The beautiful form of Thames
Ditton, Surrey, and Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, may be taken as the
type. (2.) Armstrong's Cover, Tabley, that is, the wood near Tabley
Lane end, and sparsely in Bound Wood, Tabley ;
apparently not com-
mon, but naturally. Except at home, I have had less access to w^ood
forms than to roadside ones. I can give a better account of the septal
than the syl vatic forms. Where game is much preserved, coverts are
forbidden ground.
15. i?. mucronulatits, Boreau.—I have only observed this on the Mow
Cop range, wdiich bounds Cheshire to the south. Once ascending the
chain directly from the town of Congleton, where you come upon it by
the roadside to Biddulph about a mile or so from the station, and
again at the village of Mow Cop, some miles to the south-west. It is
a form with a hill tendency. (5.) Hills above Congleton.
16. R. Sprengelii, Weihe, a. Borreri, Bell- Salt.—A prevalent
Bramble of Cheshire heaths. (1.) Near Mottram. (2.) Common;
Bound Wood, Tabley ; Pickmere Moss. (7.) Budheath ; Lower Peo-
ver Heath. Anv London botanist may see this form between the
" Spaniards," Hampstead, and Bishop's Wood; and again sparsely on
the heath before you come to the " Spaniards."
17. R. scaber, Weihe.—(2.) Boadside above Clayhouse Farm,
Plumbley ; Bound Wood, Tabley, very fine bushes ; Tabley Garden
Wood. (4.) A single bush, near the wall of Bromborough Park,
Eastham side.
18. ^. rudis, Weihe.— I have only obsei-ved this well-marked form in