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The paper on the plants of Warley Common, on which Mac- 

 Intyre's reputation as a botanist lias hitherto rested, appeared, as has 

 been said, in the Proceedings of (lie Botanical Society of London in 

 1839 (pp. 16, 21). Mr. Christy's allusion to this 'is a little mis- 

 leading; Maclntyre does not "enumerate" 701 species, but merely 

 states that that number occur: only a few are mentioned by name, 

 among them " Doronicum plantagineum, Borago orientalis, and 

 Linaria bipartita, [which] have not, I believe, been elsewhere in 

 England noticed growing apparently wild, certainly in this situation 

 spontaneously " : Maclntyre had previously "communicated " a list of 

 Warley Common plants to Daniel Cooper for publication in his 

 Flora Metropolitan (1836). 



.Tames Beitten. 



SHOUT NOTES. 



Rosa spinosissimaxrubiginosa f. cantiana, forma nova. 



The following is the description of the hybrid (named but not 

 described in Journ. Bot. 1920, Suppl. 1, p. 5) hitherto known as 

 R. biturigensis Bor., from which it differs in its glandular-hispid 

 peduncles and fruit. 



Erutex humilis. Aculeis densis heteracantheis R. spinosissimce, 

 foliolis parvis suborbicularibus biserratis R. rubiginosce, supra glabris 

 interne in nervis mediis lateralibusque pubescentibus, glandulis promi- 

 nentibus odoratis plus minusve tectis ; pedunculis fructibusque plus 

 minusve dense aciculatis ; fructibus globosis vel late ovoideis ; 

 sepalis patentibus suberectisve, subpersistentibus, raro subpinnatis ; 

 stylis hispidis, non extrusis. 



A low-growing shrub, with the dense mixed armature of R.spino- 

 sissima, and the small suborbicular biserrate lealletsof R. rubiginosa, 

 which are glabrous above and hairy on midribs and primary nerves 

 beneath, with more or less copious prominent scented subfoliar glands ; 

 peduncle densely aciculate, and fruit more or less so ; fruit globose or 

 broadly ovoid, with spreading or suberect subpersistent sepals, rarely 

 furnished with pinnae ; styles hispid, not extruded. 



Jt seems to be near the Continental var. Fries/ana 11. Kell. 

 which 1 know only from his description, and which appears to differ 

 in its leaflets being pubescent on both sides, and in its few aciculate 

 prickles. It may also be very near R. involuta f. Nicholsonii Crep., 

 of which I have not seen authentic specimens. 



My hybrid is described mainly from specimens gathered at Boxley 

 Warren, E. Kent, but very similar forms have been found in Rox- 

 burgh, Haddington, and E. Perth. — A. H. Wollet-Dod. 



Alexander Irvine. I have recently placed in the Department of 

 Botany an interleaved copy of Alexander Irvine's London Flora 

 (1838) which was given or lent to me by the author between fifty and 

 sixty years ago. It contains a revision of the introduction on a more 

 extended scale, which was in part utilised in his Illustrated Handbook 

 of British Plants (1858), and a large number of additional localities, 



