was Naturalist, published in the Transactions of the 
Linnean Society cited above. Ap. p. 62, it 1s described as 
the most characteristic shrub of the country (N. Persia) 
from Bala .Morghab westwards over the whole Badghis 
the Hari rud ‘valley into Khorasan, up to an altitude of 
5000 feet. That is, from about Long. 63° to 60° H., where, 
as that gentleman informs me, it forms low dense patches. 
From that region it stretches north-westwards into 
Western Turkestan, finding its northern and eastern limits 
in the Soongarian Altai, about 90°: EH. and 45° N. The 
- specimen here figured was from plants raised by seed 
_ which Dr. Aitchison sent in to Kew in 1885, which flowered 
in May, 1889, and which are of a more straggling habit 
than the native specimens. 
For an excellent summary of the points in which Rosa 
.berberifolia differs from its congeners so greatly as to have 
suggested its generic separation, I must refer to Dr. 
Masters’ ‘* Remarks on the Morphology of Kosa berberi- 
folia” in the Bulletin of the Botanical Society of Belgium. 
After stating that according to some botanists the plant 
has no leaves,—to others that it has no stipules,—to others 
that the stipules constitute the leaves,—and to still others 
that the spines constitute the stipules, his own careful 
analysis shows that the stipules are suppressed, but 
potentially present, and may possibly be developed in 
vigorous cultivated specimens.—J. D. H.  ; | 
Fig. 1, Petal ; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, carpel ; 5, fruit ; 6, achene:—all but — 
fig. 5 enlarged. 
