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Surrey specimen looks very remote from the description. It 

 appears to be very near var. ramosissima, to which the Surrey 

 example might cei'tainly be referred. The Cheshire specimen is 

 perhaps best placed under B. viridicata Pug.] 



Leaflets Small. 



E. CANiNA var. ramosissima Eau. Enum. Eos. p. 74. I have 

 three or four specimens so named by Sudre, but Dingier gives 

 various other names to those he has seen. I think, however, that 

 we have the variety in Britain. Its leading features are its 

 numerous short, unarmed, or nearly unarmed, flowering branches, 

 rather small leaflets, ovoid fruit, and rather long, very thinly 

 hispid styles. It seems frequent, in Surrey at any rate, but my 

 Cheshire specimens, placed here by Sudre, belong rather to 

 B. splicerica or B. globularis. It is not easily separated from 

 B. curticola Pug. V.-c 3 ?, 17. 



[B. liorridula Des6gl. Cat. Eais. p. 154. This is described as 

 an irregularly toothed form of B. aciphylla, with densely prickly 

 stem. Sudre uses the name for three or four Surrey specimens, 

 which, however, do not seem to agree at all with the description. 

 I do not propose to retain the name.] 



E. syntrichostyla Eip. ex Desegl. Cat. Eais. p. 143. Small or 

 medium, very slightly biserrate leaflets, white flowers, and densely 

 villous, usually prominent styles characterize this species. In 

 addition to those cited in E. p. 33, I have collected two examples 

 in Surrey, which I think must be referred here. Sudre confirms 

 one of them, but objects to the other on account of its small 

 leaflets, being misled by Eouy's key, which wrongly describes 

 them as large. V.-c. 2, 3, 17. 



E. CURTICOLA Pug. in M6m. Soc. Ac. Maine et Loire, xxviii. 

 p. 114. Several Surrey plants with small leaflets, more fully 

 biserrate than is usual in the subgroup, prickly flowering branches, 

 white flowers, and long glabrous styles, are placed to this species 

 by Sudre. Dingier has only seen one of them, which he thinks 

 nearer B. oblonga Eip., but I think it may go here with the others. 

 V.-c. 14, 17. 



SUBGEOUP DU MALES. 



Apparently the largest of the subgroups of _ the group canina, 

 at least in England, and containing a number of forms varying 

 considerably in biserration, making their reference to this or to 

 the preceding subgroup a question of some difliculty. 



Leaflets Large. 

 E. DUMALis Bechst. in Forstbot. p. 227. I find a somewhat 

 heterogeneous collection under this name as understood by Sudre. 

 Dingier has only seen two of them, one of which he confirms as 

 a form, and the other he refers to var. Scldimperti Hofm. It is 

 difiicult to generalize the characteristics of the species, but atten- 

 tion to the notes in E. p. 38 should, in most cases, enable it to 



