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the more copiously pinnate sepals, with the fruit of a mare slender 

 figure, and the leaflets are more narrowly elliptical. They are often 

 without glands. 



9. R. scabriuscula, Rough-leaved Dog Rose. Fruit roundish- 

 ovate, bristly as well as the flowerstalk ; prickles awl-shaped, 

 nearly straight; leaflets elliptical, roughish with minute hairs. 

 E. But. t. 1896. Winch. Fl. JV. p. 33.— R. tormentosa, /3. E. 

 Fl. v. ii. p. 3S3. 



Near the Seven Churches, County of Wicklow. North of Ireland, 

 near Ballinascreen ; Mr. D. Moore. Fl. June, July. J? .—I have 

 for the present followed Mr. Winch in considering this distinct from 

 li. tomentosa ; not, however, doubting its affinity to that species, 

 though, at the same time, we think it has characters sufficiently marked, 

 to distinguish it from it. As Mr. Winch remarks, " the buds are pecu- 

 liarly handsome when expanded so as to show the bright red tints with 

 which the outer edges of the snow white petals are marked." The 

 bush is also of a more slender and straggling habit ; whether the colour 

 of the flowers may be useful as a distinguishing mark in this species, 

 we think is doubtful, as the var. noticed under our Ii. villosa, which 

 has the petals always of a vivid pink, seems more nearly allied to this 

 than to that species. 



10. It. inodora, Fries. Slightly-scented Briar. Prickles uni- 

 form, uncinate; leaves doubly serrated, hairy, mostly glandulose 

 beneath; calyx-segments closely pinnate, mostly deciduous; ra- 

 muli, without setae ; fruit elliptical or nearly globular. Br. Fl. 1. 

 p. 233. — R. Borreri, Woods. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 388. — R. dumetorum, 

 E. Bot. t. 2579. — R. rubiginosa, var. inodora, Lindl. Ros. p. 88. 



Hedges near the old church of Portmarnock and other places in the 

 County of Dublin. Fl. June, July. T? . — Sparingly stoloniferous, six 

 to eight feet high, stout, arched with ascending drooping branches. 

 Prickles not very numerous, all strongly hooked, their base dilated ; 

 flowering ramnli frequently unarmed. Leaflets flat, rarely carinate, 

 broadly ovate, or sometimes narrower, scarcely acuminate ; upper sur- 

 face darkish green, mostly shining and inconspicuously hairy ; under 

 side paler and more hairy, sprinkled, though often sparingly and incon- 

 spicuously, with minute glands, which give out a slight turpentine fra- 

 grance, such as also fringe the stipules and the truly double serratures ; 

 petioles downy and glandulose, with small hooked prickles. Flowers, 

 as in all the neighbouring species, solitary, three together, or in larger 

 bunches, according to the vigour of the bush and the part on which 

 they grow. Peduncle mostly shorter than the ovate pointed bractcas, 

 beset with feeble seta? or with soft pale hairs, more rarely naked. 

 Calyx-tube mostly naked, sometimes sparingly setose ; segments about 

 as long as the petals, usually naked at the back, with a leafy point, 

 and closely set, shortish, lanceolate, often compound pinna, fringed 

 with gland-tipped teeth. Petals pale pink, moderate in size and in 

 expansion. Styles included, hairy ; stigmas depressed. Fruit varying 

 in length, scarlet, soft and pulpy, and with the same taste as that of 

 R. canina when ripe. 



11. It. micrantha, Sm. Small -flowered Sicect-Briar. Prick- 

 les uniform, uncinate; leaflets doubly serrated, hairy, glandulose 



