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358 SOME ACCOUNT OF CHESHIRE IIUBI.
one lane and the adjacent field-hedges, where, however, there is plenty of
it over an area of a few acres. Mr. Baker says of these specimens that
they are unusually typical for the north of England. (2.) On Morrey's
farm, Bexton (in the Ordnance and Cassell's maps, " Black Hill
Farm "), near Knutsford. I suspect local in Cheshire.
19. R. Reuteri, Mercier.— (2.) White House Farm and the Grange
Farm, Plumbley ; plentiful in company with R. rudls on Black Hill
Farm, Bexton ; thinly but generally scattered over all this immediate
neighbourhood. Like Hypericum, jmlchrum, seldom much of it in one
place, but nearly everywhere sparsely. An enormous bush, however,
on the Grange Farm, near the Waterless Brook. This is a coarse radu-
lesque form, evidently to be placed between R. rudis and R. Radula.
A year or two ago I named it R. saxlcohis, Miill., from a Continental
specimen in Mr. Baker's collection. I have lately found that M. Ge-
nevier, in his ' Rnhus du Bassin de la Loire,' states that Mr. Baker's
coarse Yorkshire Radula, which I hold identical with the Cestrian, is
thus. to be named. His description sufficiently fits, and he notices the
alliance to R. saxlcolus, Miill. Mr. Bloxam seems inclined to put this
form to R. Radula, /B. Leighto)di, Lees.
20. R. Radula, Weihe.—Rather a local Rubus, in Mid-Cheshire, and
seldom typical. (2.) Laneside, towards Arley, in Plumbley, near
Trout Hall, Plumbley. (7.) Rudheath, in company with the R.fissus,
in an exposed heathy spot. These specimens are, according to Mr.
Baker, " excellent typical Radula,'' and, indeed, the only quite typical
Radula I ever got in Cheshire.
21. R. KceUeri, Weihe.— Local. (2.) In the hedge by the laneside,
one hundred yards south of Flitto Gate Farm, where it grows very
densely for thirty or forty yards.
22. R. infeslus, Bab.— Rather local. (2.) Sparse bushes, in
Tabley Hill Lane. Finest bushes by the road which crosses the Cheshire
Midland line, beyond Mc^n-ey's Farm, or Black Hill Farm, Bexton.
(7.) Roadside, between Bradshaw Brook and Rudheath.
23. R. pallidus, Weihe.—Very common ; the general undergrowth
of plantations in Cheshire ; the weak forms puzzling and easily mis-
taken for Bellardine Brambles. (1.) Disley and Whaley Bridge. (2.)
Very coinmon. (4.) Near Eastham. (6.) Near Crewe station. (7.)
Lower Peover, Rudheath, etc., general.
24. R. divenifolius, Lindl. = dmnelonm, h.ferox, Lees.— (1.) Dis-