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38 STATIONS OF SOME PLYMOUTH UUBI.
leads from Thornbury to Common Wood ; near Bickleigh. Mr. Eloxam
has had specimens from all these localities, and says of them, " all, I
think, miicronatus ;" ]Mr. Baker, referring to the same, " may do for
macronatns, but they look to me a stage nearer villicaulis than
Bloxam's original plant, and one exactly identical, which is common in
Yorkshire." In a hedge at Ford, near Devonport.
R. Bloxamii, Lees. By a roadside, near Marsh House, Crabtree
also in a waste spot on the Saltram side of Laira bridge.
R. rudis, Weihe. Apparently rare in the neighbourhood of Ply-
mouth. In a hedge between Beer Ferris and Morwelham. A short
time ago I sent specimens of this plant, labelled " rudis," to the Rev.
A. Bloxam, and he agreed with me as to its being this ; but Mr.
Baker says of it, " what you call rudis is about halfway between the
true plant and Radnla in leaf and prickle. I have seen something
very like it in Yorkshire." The leaves are certainly less dentate than
those of rndis sometimes are, but the nearly equal aciculi, sctaj, and
hairs of the barren stem seem to me quite characteristic.
R. Radula, Weihe. The commonest plant of the Radnla set in the
neighbourhood of Plym.outh. Above " The Combe," Egg Buckland ;
in a hedge by the Plymouth and Tavistock road, close to the entrance
gate of Down House; on a limestone rubble-heap at Pomphleet ; be-
tween Plymouth and Saltash, about two miles from the former place
on top of a hedgebank at Fuzzet Hill, Lipson, etc.
R. KoeJileri, Weihe, inclusive of R. palUdus, Weihe. A variable
plant, connnon in and about woods. On a bank below the wooded
mound overlooking Plympton on the S.W. ; near Colebrook village,
by the side of the hedge between the field path and the road leading
towards Newnham Lodge ; in hedges by the Plymouth and Tavistock
Eoad, between Fancy Lane and the entrance to Wombwell Farm ; in
various waste spots at Common Wood ; in the lane between Bickleigh
village and Combe Park Farm, etc.
R.fusco-aler, Weilie. Plentiful by' a path leading from the "tramway"
at Common Wood towards Bickleigh Vale. The Eev. A.
Bloxam has pronounced this to be the above species, and Mr. Baker
says of it
*' good Babingtonian fasco-ater." A coarser plant, with
stouter barren stem, and a mOre rigid racliis to its longer and less com-
pact panicle, which is less uniformly hairy and setose than in the
Common Wood fusco-ater, is quite a common bramble in open spots
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