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with rather large leaflets, and an ellipsoid, very glandular fruit 
{in fully mature condition). The only other Cretan materials 
at Kew are in fl , and are typical R. Heckeliana, colle 
Dr. A. Baldacci, in 1893, at Hagia-Pneuma, one o summits 
ot the Asprovuna Mountains, south of Khania, a me 
pair, Tratennick (Bos. Monogr. i 3) mentions a R. cretica, 
Vest., as differing from Tournefort’ ‘lant and irae is described 
by Sternberg (Flora, ix. 1. pp. 74, 76) as R. resinosa. For this 
RR. resinosa, Re ichenbach suggests (FI. Germ. Excurs . p- 616) 
Cré 
the hybrid origin, Re FU ites > but Crépin “make no 
mention of such a cross. R. Keller (Ascherson & Grabn es 
Mittel.-Europ. FI. 67) sate of R. resinosa, Ste rab a 
variety of &. eine. Herrm.., while ee ne same time (p-. 106) 
citing R. rubiginosa var. cae Red., ynonymous with R. 
glutinosa, Sibth. & Sm. e R. cretica, “Wall. Ros. p. 144, is 
a complete oe vaddiae the forms already toaisteaall and 
several others, so that it throws no additional light on the ques- 
“Lastl ; we have Pa s figure, which is in the Linnean 
in his ie ‘(v. v. sp. herb. Smith).’’ It is inscribed ‘‘ Rosa 
pumila alpina Pimpinellae erage an (sie) sparsis a Aapoad in- 
pa aquate purpae, Cupani, : 61.” There is also 
icket: ‘‘ Rosa cretica montana ph " ibeoauniie glatinosis et 
Inst. Cor The 
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reference is to Tournefort’s Corollarium, and Dr. e Daydon 
Jackson informs us that the ticket is in the handwriting of Pietro 
Arduino (1728-1805), who sent many plants of Italian and gar- 
en origin to Linnaeus. It isa foun Raeracaag and agrees in 
, Ros. li. , as was sus- 
whilst the fruit is broadly ellipsoidal and twice as large as 
figured by Sibthorp. The Kew ies of this name was obtained 
