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leaflets, Jlower-stalks, and segments of the cahjx, sometimes on 

 the lower part of its tube. 'J'he footstalks are often prickly be- 

 sides. Thidstipulas?ixe glandular at tlie margin, dilated, undu- 

 lated, and leafy, but hardly ever become bracleas, though I have 

 an example or two of such a change. Leajiels from 7 to 11, not 

 more, broadly elliptical and bluntish, with broad, acute, mostly 

 simple, rarely notched or glandular, serratures ; smooth and 

 green on both sides, except the rib; j)ciler beneath. Mr. Woods 

 has remarked a few chaffy scales at the insertion of the leaflets. 

 Flower-stalks solitary, simple, rough with glandular bristles. 

 F/. either blush-coloured, or white blotched with pink. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx quite simple, reddish ; slightly downy on 

 the inner side 3 bristly at the back, like some of the lower por- 

 tion of its tube. Fruit bright scarlet, globular, with a short 

 neck, and crowned with the limb of the calyx. 



The colour of the fruit, though it cannot well enter into a spe- 

 cific definition, affords a striking distinction between this and 

 the following species. The supposed variety from Mr. Lee's 

 nursery, bearing a short blackish fruit, as described by 

 Mr. Lindley, was, 1 am told, a foreign plant, and it appears 

 that 7^. rubella of this author is different from my original one, 

 whose fruit is neither elongated, nor I believe pendulous. 

 R. peudulina of Roth {not pendula) is taken up by that writer on 

 report, and can be of no authority ; and the only clear point in 

 the history of Pallas's R. aljnna is, as Mr. Lindley justly deter- 

 mines, that it is ditierent from the Linnaean plant, so well 

 known in Switzerland, as n. 1107 of Haller. The account of 

 R. rubella in English Botany, is, I believe, correct. 



The authentic specimen of R. pinipinellifolia, marked A, in the 

 Linntean herbarium, has smooth Jioiccr-stalks, and a globose 

 smooth calyx-tube, without a neck. It cannot therefore belong, 

 as Mr. Woods suspected, to this species, but is truly the fol- 

 lowing, under which I shall give its history. The prukly, or 

 rather j)erhaps bristly -stalked variety of spinosissima quoted in 

 Fl. Br. from \\'ithering, should seem by that character to belong 

 to rubella, but this is contradicted by Mr. Winch, Geogr. Dis- 

 frib. 40. 



3. 11. s'/nnosissima . Buniet Rose. 



Flower-stalks without bracteas, mostly smooth, as well as 

 the simple calyx. Fruit globose, abruj)t, somewhat de- 

 pressed. Prickles of the stem stiai^ht, uiieijual, nu- 

 merous, intermixed with glandular bristles. Leaflets 

 roundish, smooth, with simple serratures. 



R. spinosissima. Lnn. Sp. PI. 70.5. Fl. Suec.ed. 2. \7\. liVUl. 

 v. '2. 10(i7. Fl. lir. ;):37. /://.;'/. Bot. v. 3. t. 187. H'oods Tr. of L. 

 Sac. V. 12. 178. Lindl. Rns .",(). fltids. 218. /•/. l)„n. t.A9S. 

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