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flower. The following is a description of the plant, compiled from 

 notes taken at the time it was discovered : — Rootstock short, stolo- 

 niferous ; stem simple, 1 to 4 ft., decumbent, then ascending, some- 

 times rooting at the nodes, angular, very shghtly hairy, leafy 

 to the root ; leaves 2 to 6 in., opposite, shortly petioled, oblong, 

 ovate-lanceolate, crenate, serrate, ciliate, faintly pubescent on 

 upper surface ; stipules very minute. Flowers as in the ordinary 

 M. jievennis ; time of flowering, September to about middle of 

 December. From the above it will be seen that the plant differs 

 from the ordinary spring flowering form in the decumbent habit of 

 the stem, nodal rooting, size of leaves, but chiefly in its time of 

 flowering, which can hardly be otherwise described than as per- 

 manently autumnal ; and, from this feature, I suggested to Sir 

 J. D. Hooker that it be called 3/. perennis (forma autumnaJis), a 

 suggestion in which he acquiesced. On visiting the habitat on 

 Saturday, Sept. 29th ult., I found the plant just breaking into 

 flower, and displaying all the features and characteristics that 

 distinguished it when first seen : this is the fifth autumnal flowering 

 of the plant that I have been able to observe. Its distribution 

 seems to be very local, for the most persistent search has hitherto 

 failed to discover it elsewhere than in its Preston habitat ; whilst 

 reports which have reached me from the most eminent botanists in 

 England, prove the phenomenon to be altogether unique. — F. J. 

 George. 



New BANFPsmRE Records. — On 29th July I found, between two 

 and three miles nearly due north from Loch Bulg, in the ravine 

 of the stream which, flowing out of the loch, is marked on the 

 Ordnance Map the "Bulg Burn," three ferns, Aspleniiim viride, 

 Poli/stichuin aculeatum, and Lastrea Oreopteris, all of which, according 

 to 'Topographical Botany,' ed. 2, have not been recorded for 

 County 94. In the same ravine there were plenty of Aspleniiim 

 Trichomanes, Athyrmm F ilix-fcemina , Cystojiteris dentnta, Polystichum 

 LonchitiSj Fhecjopteris Dryopteris, and P. polypodioides. These have 

 all been previously recorded. — Herbert D. Geld art. 



Rosa stylosa var. pseudo-rusticana Crep. — In Mr. Preston's 

 short note in this Journal for Dec. 1888, p. 377, he reports this 

 rose on my authority as found by my son, F. A. Rogers, last 

 summer, near Hagler's Hole, South Wilts. He adds : — " R. pseudo- 

 riisticana is apparently an addition to the British Flora ; it was so 

 named by M. Crepin, to whom Mr. Rogers sent specimens." This 

 statement calls for some explanation from me. M. Crepin has not 

 seen the Hagler's Hole rose, but last March he suggested the name 

 pseudo-rusticana for other specimens which I sent him from Devon 

 and Dorset, and which, I am satisfied, are identical with this 

 Hagler's Hole plant. It is, in fact, a well-marked rose which I 

 have known since 1877, when I discovered it, in considerable 

 quautity, in the Teign Valley, Devon. I then labelled it " li. sfy- 

 lona, var. with white flowers and glabrous leaves." Mr. J. G. 

 Baker having afterwards named it B. viryhica Rip., I sent it under 

 that name to the Botanical Exchange Club in 1885. This called 

 forth from Mr. James Groves, the distributor for that year, the 



