MU. J. G. BAKEK's MONOGRAPU OF BRITISH K0SE8. 2^3 



Drawn for ' English Botany ' from Taynuilfc, Argyle {Borrer !). 

 Gathered also in Derbyshire by the Eev. AV^. M. Hind and llev. 

 AV. II. Piirclias, in Leicestershire by the Kev. A. Bloxam, and by 

 myself in NortKuniberland near AVooller. 



Var. coxciNNA, Baker. 



Prickles verymnch liooked. Leaflets very small, the terminal 

 one 8-9 lines long, flat, broad obovate, thinly downy above when 

 young, hairy all over beneath ; the teeth simple, moderately open ; 

 the petioles pubescent, but scarcely at all setose ; the calyx-tube 

 small, broad ovate ; the styles slightly protruded, thinly liairy. 



Devonshire; near Stoke Bridge (Borrer I), The representative 

 of the Continental ohtusifolia in this group. 



Var. DECiPiENs [Dumort.). 



R. TOMEXTELLA, var. DECIPIENS, Diunovt. Bclg. p. 57. 



Like tomeiitella^hut the peduncle densely aciculate; the midrib 

 beneath more glandular ; the petiole both pubescent and glaudu- 

 loso-setose, with several unequal aciculi ; the sepals not fully re- 

 flexed, and densely glandulous on the back. 



Northumberland, Wooller {Baker), and plants like ordinary 

 tomenteUa^ but with aciculate peduncles, gathered in Leicester- 

 shire by the Eev. A Bloxam, and in Cheshire by Mr. Wilson and 

 the Hon. J. L. Warren. 



Series 2. Subcristata?. Leaves not ylandular hcnealh. Fruit 

 softer when green, in the north of England ripening earhj in 

 Septemher ; the sepals ascending after the petals fall, and not dis- 

 articulated till after it turns crimson. Disk narrower than in 

 the last section, and styles more densely villose. 



This series of forms corresponds to the Canince, subsection 1, 

 of Grenier's ' Flora of the Jura,' and to the R, monticola of tlie 

 second edition of Rapin's ' Botanists* Guide to the Canton 

 Vaud/ 



Var. Reuteri (Godet). 



R. Reuteri, Godet, FL Jura, p. 218 ; Reut. Cat. p. G8. 

 R. Reuteri a, Gren. Jura, p. 239; Billot, Exsic. 358L 

 R. GLAUCA, '' VilL inedit. sec. Lois. Not. p. 80," Rapin, Bull. Halter 

 p. 180. 



R. RUBKIFOLIA, var. PiNNATiFiDA, Sevivge in DC. ProJr, ii. p. filO. 



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