40 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Journal in 1896, slightly modified as regards R. glauca and 

 R. coriifolia to correspond with M. Crepin's analysis of these, 

 given in the ' Revision des Rosa de 1'herbier Babington,' as it 

 appeared in the Journal of Botany in 1896. The Nos. are 

 those given to the specimens by the collector, those collected 

 this year beginning with No. 50. 



R. PIMPINELLIFOLIA, Linn. 

 Var. spinosissima, Linn. 

 Nos. TO, 51. 



Although only two specimens have been sent, the species is not 

 uncommon in the county, especially towards the sea-board. The 

 variety is distinguished by its aciculate peduncles. Sometimes the 

 acicles are very few ; in other cases the peduncle and even the base 

 of the fruit is densely acicular. 



R. MOLLIS, Sin. 

 Nos. 7, 9, 13, 1 6, 27, 33, 34, 38, 45, 50, 56, 58, 60. 



These specimens show a good deal of variation. The leaflets 

 vary much in respect of hairiness, especially on the under side. They 

 are sometimes almost destitute of glands on the under surface, but 

 generally vary from being thinly to densely glandular. This is the 

 case also with the pedicels, fruits, and backs of the sepals. The fruit, 

 though usually globular, is sometimes broadly oblong. 



R. TOMENTOSA, Sm. 



Nos. i, 3, 4, 14, 1 8, 25, 26, 28, 31, 43, 48, 61, 62, 67, 71, 74, 



77, 79, 82, 85, 86, 88. 



There is also much variation here. In some, as in 62 and 85, 

 the prickles are long, stout, and decidedly curved ; in others, as 74, 

 they are slender and with scarcely perceptible curvature. The 

 pedicels are sometimes short, as in 62 and 88, whilst in others, as 

 in 71 and 82, they are much longer than the fruit. They are in all 

 the specimens more or less glandular, sometimes, as in 82 and 85, 

 densely beset, as well as the fruit, with long, spiny glands. 



The leaves, as in R. viollis, differ much in degree of hairiness 

 and glandulosity, whilst in shape they vary from broadly to narrowly 

 oval or ovate, with the point obtuse or acute. The fruit may be 

 globose, as in 67 and 85, or ovate, as in 62 and 86. No. 79 has 

 very small, narrow fruit, seemingly not properly developed. It would 

 serve no good purpose to attempt to classify them under any of the 

 so-called named varieties. 



