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panicle always short, often very short. Sepals not turning up 

 again at the end. Are the young germens downy ? Petioles of the 

 panicle rounded above, not channelled as in R. rotundatus Mull. ; 

 they seem also to be rounded above on the barren stem. R. rotun- 

 datus appears to have sessile glands, but no setje on the panicle and 

 falcate prickles there. 



Near Plymouth in both Devon and Cornwall, in open exposed 

 places, Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs. 



Focke thinks it possible that this may be R. rotundatus Mull., 

 but that has a remarkably spongy and very much furrowed stem, 

 or rather it has an angular stem with depressed flat and much 

 striated sides, forming depressed faces rather than furrows. A 

 manuscript description by Levent says that R. rotundatus has 

 " tige dressee arquee au summit." Briggs describes the Devonshire 

 plant as more or less arcuate. I do not find the beautiful compact 

 cylindrical panicle which we have in Devonshire amongst the 

 French specimens of R. rotundatus. Genevier seems to have founded 

 his species chiefly upon specimens from the late M. B. Levent, of 

 Rheims ; the MS. description by Levent is valuable. 



Focke distinguishes this from R. incurvatus (Journ. Bot. 1890, 

 129) by that having shorter prickles and smaller pink flowers, and 

 a long narrow panicle. I think that several other differences will 

 be seen by those who compare the plants carefully. 



I think that this is probably the same as a plant gathered by 

 Syme at Brodick, in Arran, in Sept., 1872, and called R. incurvatus 

 by Baker ; and also found by me near Milford, Pembrokeshire. I 

 cannot identify this plant with any specimen in the Herb. Genevier, 

 or described in his Monographie. Its very near ally, R. incurvatus, 

 is not found near Plymouth. Is Mr. Briggs' plant from Ermington, 

 Devon (August 8th, 1878), — not named, but said to " have some 

 resemblance to R. adscitus ,y — the same? Mr. Briggs is now well 

 acquainted with the proposed R. Dumnoniensis, and agrees with me 

 in distinguishing it. 



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By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 243.) 



Malva L. 

 Sect. 2. Fasciculatce DC. Prod. i. 432. — Bracteohe 3. Flores in 

 axilla foliorum cymoso-fasciculati aut glomerati. Folia lobata. 



* BracteoIcB ovatce v. oblong a. 



5. Malva sylvestris L. ; DC. Prod. i. 432 ; Rchb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. v. t. 168; Eng. Bot. ed. 3, t. 281. M. vulgaris Ten. Syll. 

 p. 336. M. recta Opiz, fide Nyman, Consp. p. 129. M. tomentella 

 Presl, Fl. Sic. i. p. 174. M. circinnata Viv. Fl. Cors. Prod. App. 

 p. 6. — Caule erecto hirto, foliis cordato-orbicularlbus 5-7-lobatis, 



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