222 ME. J. a. baker's MOXOGBAPn OF BRITISH TiOSKS. 



only 1-2 pairs of minute pinnae, spreading after the petals fall, 

 falling when the fruit has changed colour. Fruit bright scarlet, 

 ovate-urceolate, 7-8 lines long by 5-6 lines broad, with a decided 

 disk like that of canina, changing colour late in September or early 

 in October. 



This differs from rubiginosa by its laxer habit of growth, faint 

 odour, uniform prickles, glabrous styles, and in the character of 

 the fruit and sepals, and may be considered midway between ru- • 

 Vifjinosa and canina. In some parts of the Isle of AVight it is as 

 plentiful as canina ; it is a plant of the Channel Islands {Bev, T, 

 Salwey !) ; Mr, Borrer gathered it in many places in Sussex, and 

 Mr. Briggs in Devon and Cornwall ; and it extends northward to 

 Anglesea ( Wilson !, Borrerl, Webb !), Cheshire ( Webb !), Yorkshire 

 (Hailstone !, BaJcer), and to Northumberland (Buston, near Aln- 

 wick, X Chrisp !). In Ireland it appears to be restricted to the 

 neighbourhood of Cork, whence I have seen specimens gathered 

 by Mr, Isaac Carroll; but Dr. Mackay's plant thus labelled was 

 rubiginosa. On the Continent it is not known in Scandinavia, but 

 it begins in Belgium and is diffused through France to Geneva, 

 and eastward as far as Tauria, whence there is a specimen from 

 Steven in the Kcw herbarium. 



Var. BRiGGSii, Baker, 



A luxuriant variety with leaflets 15-18 lines long, 10-12 lines 

 broad, naked above, less glandular than in the type beneath ; calyx- 

 tube and fruit shorter and stouter, and, like the peduncle, quite 

 naked ; sepals more pinnate and scarcely glandular on the back. 



Devonshire, quarry at Rumple, near Plymouth {Briggs !). 



Var. HYSTRix {heman), 



R. HYSTRIX, Leman, Bull, PhiL 1818, extr. p. 18; Boreau^ Fl. Cent. 



edit. 2, vol. ii. p. 182, nan Lindl. Mon. p. 129, t, 17 (1820). 

 R. LEMA^'II, Boreau, FL Cent, edit. 3, vol. ii. p. 230 ; Deseg. Mon. 102, 



Exsic. 71. 



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R. MiCRAXTiiAj var. Lemanii, Dw/Kor/. 3Ion, p. 55. 



A small variety with narrow sharply toothed leaves, densely 

 glandular beneath, but quite without hairs ; terminal leaflet cu- 

 neate at the base ; peduncle densely aciculate ; calyx-tube naked. 



feurrey, Boxhill ; and Oxfordshire, Caversham (Borrer I) ; Grlou- 

 cestershire, St. Vincent's rocks (Br, St, Brodg !) 



In leaves and general habit very like B, sejpium ; but the sepals 

 are glandular on the back, and the peduncle densely aciculate. 



