214 MR. J. O. baker's MOXOGBAPH of BRITISH HOSES. 



1827, and it is evidently widely diffused througli the north of 

 Germany. In the ^ Jurassic Flora,' Grrenier describes it well, and 

 restricts it to his ^^ region des sapins." I have seen it from nu- 

 merous places in Savoy, Dauphine, and Switzerland, but not from 

 any lowland French stations; and it reaches Carinthia and the 

 Tyrol. Our average English form seems to me just Deseglise's 

 Grenierii, and his molUssima to be a softer, greyer form of our 

 plant, almost destitute of glands. I believe the English plant 

 (gathered by Hailstone in Clydesdale) which he calls recondita 

 is only, like the TieteropJiylla of Woods, a luxuriant condition of 

 the species. The following are the most striking English va- 

 rieties : — 



Var. c.ERULEA, Woods, 



R. viLLOSA, var. c.^rulea. Woods, Linn. Trans, xii. p. 189, Herb. 

 26-28. 



R. mollissima, var, c^rulea. Baker, Exsic, 7; Deseg. Toment. 

 p. 38. 



Leaves softer and greyer than usual, with very few glands or 

 aciculi on the petiole ; the points of the sepals often very leafy ; 

 the calyx-tube and fruit broader than deep and perfectly smooth, 

 the fruit pendent; the peduncle with fewer and weaker glan- 

 dular setsa and aciculi than usual, and in extreme cases quite 

 naked. 



A common Northumbrian form, and T have seen it also from 

 Argyleshire (jffaiYsf one), Durham {Soberison), Cumberland {Bd*- 

 rer), and West Yorkshire (Woods). 



Var. PSEUDO-RUBIGINOSA (Lejeune). 



R. PSEUDO-RUBiGiNosA, Lejeunc, FL Spa, i. p. 229. 



R. SPINUHFOLIA, var. Foxiana, Thory, Ros, Redout, p. 5. 



R. viLLOSA, var. suberecta. Woods, Linn. Trans, loc. cit.y Herb 

 30. 



R. ARDUKNNENSis, Crepin, Notes, ii. p. 30; Deseg. Toment. p. 7- 



Dumort 



and 



naked, and the lower only thinly hairy, but conspicuously glan 



and 



numerous unequal aciculi ; the stipules densely glandular on the 

 back ; the calyx- tube densely aciculate. 



West Yorkshire, Settle {Woods l). The Thirsk plant referred 



