138 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



E. INSIGNIS Desegl. et Kip., which I have taken as the repre- 

 sentative species of the TransitoricB, is not uncommon. *Var. sijn- 

 frichostyla Rip. near Brimstage. A plant from Greasby with narrow, 

 beaked fmit seems to be referable to *var. rhyncliocarpa Rip. 



R. DUMALis Bechst. Very common. Var. leiosfyla Rip. near 

 Greasby. *Var. hiserrata Mer. near railway-crossing between More- 

 ton and Meols. There has been some doubt regarding the occurrence 

 of this plant in Britain. Herat's description is certainly incomplete 

 in some points, but if Deseglise's account can be accepted, the 

 globose fruit, short villous styles, and ascending or erect sepals should 

 distinguish the plant from other forms of B. dumalis. There is 

 a sheet in Herb. Brit. Mus. (No. 4i, Herb. Ley) from Brampton 

 Abbots, Hereford, which agrees in most particulars with my speci- 

 mens, but the sepals appear loosely re flexed, whereas the Cheshire 

 examples have ascending, almost erect sepals. A Cheshire specimen 

 collected by Wolley-Dod, referred to B. hiserrata Mer. by Dingier 

 and Sudre, " departs greatly from the type." 



R. YERTiciLLACANTHA Mer. '* Upton Road. Between Moreton 

 and Hoylake." Flora of Liverpool District. A specimen from 

 Bradley Valley in Herb. Brit. Mus. (No. 1356, Herb. Wolley-Dod) 

 is feebly characterized, since there are only one or two glands on a 

 few of the peduncles. It therefore comes very near B. dumalis. 



R. SCABRATA Crep. This name was employed by Crepin to cover 

 a series of forms of B. canina L. having biserrate leaflets, subfoliar 

 glands, and smooth peduncles. I have not found any such form in 

 Cheshire, but a specimen collected at Clift'bank, Carden, in Herb. 

 Brit. Mus. (No. 1441, Herb. Wolley-Dod), labelled i?. vinacea Baker, 

 comes under this series. 



R. Blonb^ana Rip. The following notes are quoted from 

 Col. WoUey-Dod's account of the subsection Eu-caninae, p. 68. 

 " There are two British plants in this cover in herb. Deseglise. One 

 is from West Kirby, Cheshire, by Webb, labelled by Mr. Baker 



' B. arvatica, excellent.' Except for its glabrous midribs, 



this is really much nearer arvatica than Blondceana The other 



is also from Webb, collected at Hoylake, Avhich is quite near West 

 Kirbv. It is a very similar-looking plant, but having hairy midribs 

 is, I think, indisputably i2. arvatica Baker." I conflne the name 

 B. Blondceana Rip. to plants of the B. canina group having 

 biserrate leaflets, subfoliar glands, and hispid peduncles. The only 

 Cheshire example I have seen is one by Wolley-Dod from Broxton 

 quarry in Herb. Brit. Mus. It has large leaflets, not very strongly 

 biserrate, a few glands on the primary veins beneath, and feebly 

 glandular peduncles. 



R. urbica Lem. The commonest species of the group B. dume- 

 torum Thuill. *Var. semi glabra Rip. not uncommon. A form of 

 this variety with globose fruit Mr. Barclay thinks may be referred 

 to *var. glohata Desegl. Var. splicerocarpa Pug. near Brimstage. 

 A plant from Raby Mere with very small leaflets only slightly 

 pubescent beneath, and small, almost globose fruit, I cannot refer 

 to any named segregate, and Mr. Barclay has not suggested a name. 



