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tosa, and some bear a close resemblance to B. fcetida, except for 

 their quite hispid styles. The specimens in my herbarium are 

 somewhat heterogeneous, and have been referred by British 

 authorities to B. tomentosa Sm. (this is the only one seen by 

 Dingier, who concurs in naming it B. yseudo-cuspidata), B. hritan- 

 nica Desegl. (the only one seen by Sudre, who names it B. 

 Annesiensis Desegl.), var. sylvestris Woods, var. submollis Ley, 

 B. Lucandiana Des6gl. & Gill., B. resinosoides Crep., B. cuspi- 

 datoides Cr6p., and B. Sherardi Dav. V.-c. 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 22, 

 23, 36, 40, 62, 65, 69. 



E. cuspiDATOiDES Crep. in Bull. Soc. Eoy. Bot. Belg. xxi. 

 p. 94. This is distinguished from the last by its broader leaflets, 

 bright rose flowers, globose fruit, and more woolly styles. The 

 leaflets may be a little more glandular beneath, and the prickles 

 more falcate, but these points are not well marked in the speci- 

 mens I have seen. The specimen from Salop was labelled B. 

 omissa var. submollis by Ley. V.-c. 39, 40, 64, 65, 69. 



[B. tomentosa var, glohulosa Kouy, Fl. Fr. vi. p. 386. This 

 name has been applied by Sudre to several examples characterized 

 by very long peduncles and globose fruit, but with reflexed sepals. 

 I think there must have been some mistake, because Eouy says 

 his variety is synonymous with B. Andrzeiovii Des6gl. non Bess., 

 and should have spreading-erect sepals. I have no examples in 

 my own herbarium, and kept no records of those I saw in that of 

 the late Mr. Ley. Mr. Ley thought it a suitable name to cover 

 the Sherardi-like plants belonging to the Tomentosa group, but 

 that would be a misapplication of Eouy's name, which is intended 

 to cover some form of the Omissa group, not that of Tomentosa.] 



[B. dumosa Pug. in D6seglise, Eev. Sect. Tom. p. 40. This 

 corresponds in this group to B. cinerascens in that of Omissa, 

 but besides its deciduous sepals, its leaflets are larger and not 

 quite uniserrate, its fruit also is ovoid, and its styles villous, but 

 forms exist having these features, with more or less persistent 

 sepals, while forms with quite deciduous sepals have the other 

 features of B. cinerascens. A Hunts specimen [Hunnyhun) has 

 quite globose fruit and subglabrous styles, but all the sepals had 

 fallen by Sept. 25th, and its other features are those of this species. 

 It requires confirmation as a British species.] 



SUBGROUP FCETIDA. 



This subgroup contains examples with glabrous or subglabrous, 

 rarely quite hispid styles, and usually with leaflets less hairy 

 beneath. Their peduncles are almost always long, at least half 

 as long again as the fruit, or more, but long-peduncled forms are 

 often found in the last subgroup, so that this character is not a 

 very distinctive one. 



E. scABRiuscuLA Smith, E. B. t. 1896. This species should 

 be confined to examples which have their leaflets subglabrous or 

 only thinly hairy beneath, so as to be roughish to the touch, 



