SPECIES DUBIA. 137 
86. R. Redutea glauca Thory in Red. Roses. tom. 1. t. 
38. p. 101, 
This, as M. Thory observes, looks like an hybrid 
production between R. rubrifolia and spinosissima, hav- 
ing the colour of the former with something of the habit 
of the latter. Yet the two remarkable varieties of sys- 
tyla and arvensis which I have described, incline me to 
refer this to rubrifolia; from which in reality it does 
not differ, except in being less and having a few sete. 
The aculei at the base of the shoot in the figure are 
very similar to those of rubrifolia. 
M. Thory has two varieties of this. With @ I am 
not acquainted. The variety y is R. nitida’!; with 
which the « has not two characters in common. 
ed 
87. R. clynophylla. Thory in Red. ros. 1. 43. #. 10. 
Stem shrubby, silky with hairs. Branches slender, 
hairy. Prickles stipulary, two together. Leaves hang- 
ing down; Jeaflets oblong elliptical doubly serrated, 
shining above, hairy beneath; petioles glandular, hairy, 
somewhat. prickly; stipules narrow, fringed, pointed. 
Flowers solitary. Peduncles very short, hairy. Tube 
of the calyx roundish, hairy, sometimes underset with 
floral leaves. Sepals undivided, pointed, silky. Petals 
white, somewhat cordate, yellowish at the base. Fruit 
roundish. Thory l. c. 
Of this I can only judge from Redouté’s figure and 
Thory’s description. That it belongs to my Bracteate 
there is no doubt, and I should have added that it is 
the same as involucrata if I had not Mr. Sabine’s au- 
thority for their being very different. I can perceive 
nothing in the figure in which they disagree, except in 
the absence of bracteze in clynophylla, which, as they 
are not noticed in the description, I conclude really 
not to be present. 
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