MR, J. a. BAKEU'S MONOGRAPH OF BKITISH KOSKS. 211 



R. ciLiATO-PETALA, Besser, VolL p. 66; Reich. FL Excurs. ii. 

 p. 616, Exsic. 256/ ! non Koch. 



R. RESiNosA, Sternb. in Reich, Fl. Excurs. ii. p. 616, Exsic. 12/1 !, 

 non Deseglise. 



A robust arching bush 4 to 6 feet high, with a trunk some- 

 times as thick as a man's arm, with dull purplish glaucous 

 branches and scattered, uniform, slender prickles 4 to 6 lines 

 long. Well- developed leaves 5 to 7 inches long, the terminal 

 leaflet oblong or with a slight ovate tendency, li-2| inches long, 

 generally only about half as broad, grey-green, but not softly 

 pubescent on both sides as in moUissima, the underside often 

 slightly glandular, the teeth open and copiously compound. 

 Flowers 1 to 3, the peduncle generally not more than | an inch 

 long, densely aciculate and setose, the calyx-tube round, glau- 

 cous, usually densely prickly, the sepals converging, fully per- 

 sistent, densely glandular on the back, 9-12 lines long, the main 

 ones copiously pinnate, the fruit ripe in August, bright red, 

 globose or broadly turbinate, often, but not always, pendent, 

 densely covered with strong prickles. 



A stronger-growing plant than molli$sima,v{ith arching branches, 

 larger and more openly toothed, narrower leaves, not so softly 

 pubescent, and larger flowers and fruit, and copiously compound 

 sepals. It is an old favourite in gardens, but seems to possess 

 no fair claim to be considered British. Eay clearly had this in 

 view when he WTote " Fructus Pyri parvi forma et magnitudine 

 splnulis obsiti;" and he localizes it " in montosis septcntriona- 

 libus Eboracensis et AVestmorlandici agri copiose ;'' but no doubt 

 he did not recognize mollissima and tomentosa as distinct from it. 

 The English specimens gathered of late years, which we have 

 seen, are from Staflfordshire, Cotes Heath, ^ev, B. C. Douglas-, 

 and Gloucestershire, Coppice-wood, near Painswick, Br. S. 



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North Germany, the Alps, and Jura, reaching the Pyrenees, 

 Apennines, and Tyrol, and, according to Nyman, Castille, 

 Tauria, and Mount Athos. The corolla is often beautifully 

 gland -ciliated, and in cultivated specimens we have seen it 3 in. 



across. 



6. R. MOLLISSIMA, IVilld. Frutex erectus, ramis brevibus erecto- 

 patentibus, aculeis sparsis aequahbus rectis gracilibus, foliolis copiose 

 duplicato-serratis, utrinque moUiter griseo-pubcsccntibus, infra in- 

 terdum inconspicuc *rlundulosis, floribus 1 vcl paucis, pcduneulis brc- 



