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STATIONS OF SJME PLYMOUTH RUBI. 39
noar woods, on liedgebanks, and by roadsides. I have noticed it at
Crabtrec ; by the Plymouth and Yealmpton road, near Brixton, about
four miles from Plymouth, close to where Bloxam's Salteri and macro-
phyllus occur ; on a bank between Plymstock and Knighton ; in a
lane at Newnham ; between Tamerton Foliott and Eoborougli, etc,
I have specimens from all these localities in my lierbarium, and Mr.
Eaker, referring to some from several of them, says that they are iden-
tical with a plant that he has often gathered in the north of England,
which is about intermediate between fnsco-ater, as figured in ' E.ubi
Gerraanici,' and macrophyllus. Weak specimens of this often look
nuich like pyramidalis, Bab.
R. dlversifalius, Liudl. Local, having apparently a partiality for
calcareous soils. In hedges by Puslinch Lane, near Kitley Lodge ;
by the turnpike road between Yealmpton and Ermington, near Yealra
Bridge ; in a waste spot, near a limestone quarry, on the left bank of
the Yealm, just opposite the Kitley cavern.
The white blossoms of this are large and handsome, and the light
hue of its foliage is remarkable.
Ji. pyramidalis, Bab. By the Plymouth and Dartmoor " tramway,"
near where it spans the Plym Bi idge Eoad, and in a wood beyond this
spot, between Eumple Quarry and Common Wood ; in a bushy spot
close to the elvan quarry on Derriford Estate, EggBuckland ;
sparingly
in hedges by the lane leading out on Crownhill Down, from Colebrook ;
in a bushy lane between Newnham Park and Elfordleigh, and in a
waste spot iu the same neighbourhood, near Loughton Mill ; in Bick-
leigh Yale, near Common Wood ; in a lane between Bickleigh village
and Combe Park Earm ; at Ham, near Plymouth, etc. The Rev. A.
Bloxara, on receiving specimens from x)ne of the Plj'm localities and
from Derriford, wrote, " pyrumklalis, Bab. I have seen this from only
one locality before, Llanberis, N. Wales;" and ^Ir. Baker "excellent
pyramidalis, I have seen the Llanberis plant growing there." This
will, I think, prove to be a rather common woodland bramble in the
neighbourhood of Plymouth.
R. Guntheri, Weihe. A good deal of what Mr. Eloxam calls " very
characteristic," and Mr. Baker, "excellent GuntJteri," grows by the
path leading from the " tramway," across Common Wood, towards
Bickleigh Vale, but it is not a common plant. A Rubus near this
occurs on a hedgebank below Bircham Cottage, Egg Buckland.