18 THE NATURALIST. 



which is the E. rubella of Godet. I have specimens of two of these from 

 Dr. Fauconnet, but they are in flower only, and even as far as they go, 

 neither coincides precisely with Winch's plant. Koch refers a specimen 

 sent from England as R. rubella to the Istrian B. gentilis, Sternb. but 

 describes this latter as having the prickles crowded upon the shoots of the 

 year, and the sepals one half shorter than the corolla. 



II. R. Sabint, Woods. In exposed places an erect shrub, with stems 

 three to six or eight feet in height, short compact branches, and deep 

 vinous-purple shoots and prickles, creeping extensively and forming a 

 colony : in shade with taller somewhat arching stems and looser branches ; 

 the whole plant with a resinous scent and young leaves of the twigs softly 

 downy. Shoots densely beset with prickles, which pass by gradual stages 

 of transition into numerous aciculi and setse. Longest prickles of the 

 mature stem with bases a quarter of an inch deep, the prickle three- 

 eighths of an inch long, narrowing suddenly from above the base to a 

 slightly compressed needle, the upper line almost straight or slightly 

 curved, the aciculi of the flowering shoots hardly at all curved. Well 

 developed leaves of the barren shoots of the year about three inches from 

 the base to the apex of the terminal leaflet which is cordate or broadly 

 ovate, and measures about one inch long by five-eighths broad. Leaflets 

 more or less thoroughly doubly serrated with open main serratures, dull 

 green and greyish-hairy on their upper surfaces, paler and more hairy 

 beneath, with reddish resinous glands spread sometimes all over the blade, 

 but more frequently almost confined to the midrib and margins. Stipules 

 hairy on the back and usually also glandular, densely setoso-ciliated, with 

 lanceolate erecto-patent auricles. Petioles and peduncles with abundant 

 hairs, aciculi and setae. Flowers solitary or two or three together, 

 the bracts ovate-lanceolate, hairy and glandular, and copiously setoso- 

 ciliated. Calyx tube subglobose, often purplish, more or less thickly beset 

 with aciculi and setae, the segments about three-quarters of an inch in 

 length, more or less lengthened out and leafy at the point, usually simple, 

 but not unfrequently furnished with one or two narrow pinnae, the lower 

 part of the blade always aciculate and setose, the upper part tomentose, 

 and the leafy point often setoso-ciliated. Petals varying from pure white 

 to deep rose colour, in fine specimens not less than one inch in length 

 by an inch in breadth, so that the fully expanded flower is quite two 

 inches across. The calyx segments are often of a rich deep purplish brown 

 by the time the corolla falls, and then spread out at right angles with the 



