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tion to revise the British genus, to cover the remarkable plant 

 from Cheshire mentioned in B. R. p. 96, which is closely matched 

 by one I have seen from Northants {Ley), but I have no specimen 

 of the latter, nor any detailed notes. V.-c. 32, 58. 



SUBSECTION RUBIGINOS^. 



This subsection is distinguished from our other British ones 

 primarily by the abundance and size of its subfoliar glands. 

 Exceptional cases may be found where the glands are very few, 

 and these might be mistaken for members of the Villosce sub- 

 section or the Tomentella group, or vice versa, but the scent of the 

 foliage, and in most cases the habit, armature, and other charac- 

 ters help to a solution. 



GEOUP EGLANTERIA. 



The stiff, erect, though usually low-growing habit and hispid 

 or villous styles almost always mark this group. The sepals 

 also are more or less persistent, and usually suberect, and the 

 armature much more often mixed than in the groups of Micrantlia 

 or Agrestis. From the group Elliptica its hispid peduncles and 

 roundish leaflets distinguish it. 



R. Eglanteria Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 491. For reasons given 

 in B. R. p. 101, this name can only be used as an aggregate. I 

 have records for it as such from v.-c. 74, 79, and Somerset. 



R. APEicoRUM Rip. ex D6s6gl. Cat. Rais. p. 279. This is not 

 well differentiated from B. comosa, and can, I think, only be 

 separated by its globose fruit and less persistent sepals. The 

 difficulty is, as with the group Omissa in the Villosce, to determine 

 the ultimate direction and persistence of those organs in average 

 herbarium specimens, which are often gathered too young. Uni- 

 form, stout, hooked prickles, often with acicles just below the 

 inflorescence, are common to both species. Two of my Hailing 

 specimens, referred to in Fl. Kent, p. 135, as B. permixta, belong 

 here, though they are abnormal in having a considerable ad- 

 mixture of acicles in some parts of their stems. They certainly 

 are not B. permixta. Marshall's No. 1238 belongs here also, as a 

 small-leaved form towards var. rotund ifolia, but differing in its 

 strong, hooked prickles. The distribution is far more general, at 

 least on chalky soils, than the following records show. V.-c. 15, 

 16, 17, 32?, 80. 



R. coMOSA Rip. in Sch. Arch. Fr. & All. p. 254. The bulk of 

 our B. Eglanteria Linn, is, I believe, referable to this segregate. 

 It is certainly far the commonest form on Box Hill and the 

 adjacent downs, and appears to be the commonest species on the 

 Continent. It is recognizable by its stout, uniform, hooked 

 prickles, with acicles just below the inflorescence, ovoid fruit, and 

 persistent though not always very erect sepals. Globose fruit is 

 sometimes found on the same bush as ovoid, but the latter is the 

 normal shape. V.-c. 3, 9, 16, 17, 79, 80, 98. 



