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one bunch, and all of them producing fruit. Its more 
robust mode of growth, and having the ramifications 
of the inflorescence closely covered with setze and 
straight prickles, which are also scattered all over the 
tube of the calyx and sepals, are sufficient to point it 
out. Roth mistook it for R. sempervirens; and Rau 
appears not to have understood the latter much better, 
as I shall have occasion to show hereafter.. It is the R. 
eglanteria cymosa of Woods. 
My next variety 3 is the R. grandiflora of Wallroth, 
and referred here not without considerable hesitation. 
His description answers pretty well to var. 3, but he 
Says the fruit is “ demum atro-purpureus” and flowers 
“* roseo-purpurei.” Moreover the large size of . the 
latter and the leaves very green and nearly without 
down are not characteristic of R. rubiginosa inodora. 
When I first received - from Mr. Hooker, who ga- 
thered it near Seez, I did not doubt it would prove a 
distinct species, distinguished by its zigzag branches, 
very broad round leaves, and perfectly glabrous styles. 
The latter peculiarity is, however, not unfrequent in R. 
rubiginosa micrantha, which always has a less quantity 
of pubescence on that part than the common sweet- 
briar. More extended observations have also convinced 
me of the insufficiency of the shape of the leaves and’ 
mode of ramification, both of which may perhaps be 
owing to accidental circumstances. The description of 
R. montana in the supplement to the Flore Francaise 
is quite applicable to this, especially the “aiguillons 
rares, pars, droits, assez gréles—ovaire ovoide, a peu 
pres sphérique, un peu -hérissé, surtout vers sa base.” 
Villars’s R. montana must be a widely different species, 
for he describes it with columnar styles. See R. ar- 
vensis. 
Iam acquainted with ¢ only from Rau’s descrip- 
tion. He says it is two or three feet high, with fewer 
branches than the others. Prickles of the branchlets 
usually two together, slender and straightish. Leaflets 
roundish, scarcely longer ae the prickles. Tube of 
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