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binate, hispid, or smooth, or nearly so. Flowers pale 
blush, or deep red, or blotched, as in the English Botany 
figure of R. scabriuscula. This plant is very common 
in Suffolk, and may well have puzzled Mr. Woods.to 
find out what the important difference is between it 
and tomentosa. In fact, a vague, almost indescribable 
dissimilarity in their general aspect, chiefly caused by 
the larger leaves of the former, is all they can be dis- 
tinguished by, even by the most practised observer. 
So far is the pubescence from being harsher than in to- 
mentosa, that it is just the reverse. What Mr. Winch 
finds near Newcastle has more acute leaflets than the 
Suffolk plant, which is very well represented in English 
Botany. 
R. fetida of Batard’s supplement to the flora of 
the Maine and Loire is a weak variety with leaves 
smooth above. Its fruit is said to be fetid when bruised. 
R. Reyniert referred here by Woods seems rather to be 
R. rubiginosa flexuosa. 
8 has certainly a well-marked character, in its mode. 
of growth, to distinguish it from a—its rootshoots 
being very straight and not bent like a bow, as in the 
other. I doubt, however, whether this can be consi- 
dered sufficient without some additional peculiarities. 
The undivided sepals are tolerably constant; but I 
have specimens from Mr. Lyell of a Northumberland 
plant which produces both. These in heterophylla are 
confessedly a little divided; and in pulchella, which 
has all the appearance of the stunted state of mollis 
figured in English Botany, are quite compound again. 
Many specimens of R. tomentosa have sepals perfectly 
intermediate between compound and nearly simple; 
and I believe it will not be doubted that the distinction 
between simple and subsimple is too ambiguous for 
specific discrimination. Ihave examined Mr. Woods's 
own specimens of R. pulchella without being able to 
detect the crenature of the petals, on which he is dis- 
posed to place too much confidence. For it cannot, 
be worth much as a character unless the comparative 
size of flowers be admitted also; since it always happens 
