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tube. Styles villose, fruit not ripening till October, pulpy in texture, deep 

 red in colour, crowned by the connivent or ascending segments of the 

 truly persistent calyx. 



This species is tolerably frequent in the North of England. In North 

 Yorkshire we have it in seven out of the nine drainage districts, and as- 

 cending from the sea-level to 900 feet. After the examination of a con- 

 siderable number of authenticated specimens I am entirely at a loss to 

 find characters to distinguish Sabini, Doniana snid gracilis, even as varieties. 

 I have not seen the larger prickles more than slightly curved. In small 

 plants the flowers are often single and the sepals all entire, but this is a 

 mere question of want of luxuriance. The flowers vary considerably in size 

 and colour, the peduncles and calyx tubes in the closeness of their aciculi 

 and setae, the leaves in the openness of the serrations and especially as 

 regards the glandulosity of their underside and the hairiness of their 

 upper surfaces. 



Professor Crepin has furnished me with a series of specimens of the 

 Belgian rose, which he describes so carefully in the second fascicle of his 

 '' Notes sur quelques plantes rares ou critiques de la Belgique," page 95, 

 under the name of R. coronata, and it does not seem to me in any way 

 essentially different from the plant above described. The stems of this 

 he says are about three feet in height and do not arch at the summit, and 

 the flowers are pale rose-coloured. His specimens have the terminal 

 leaflets ovate-elliptical, somewhat narrower in proportion to their length 

 than in our ordinary plant, with sharp moderately open double serratures 

 and usually abundance of glands upon their under surfaces. Comparing 

 our British plant, as illustrated by specimens which I sent, the diff'erences 

 which he indicates (Notes p. 29) are that our plant is more robust, with 

 flowers more frequently more than one, and in consequence with the 

 bracts and stipules of the upper leaves more dilated, the branches and 

 calyces dull violet, the corolla larger and apparently paler. This plant 

 grows in the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg in Belgium and is 

 given in Wirtgens' fasciculi of critical plants, issued in 1858 and 1860. 

 I have not seen the Savoyard R. sabauda, Rapin, but apparently we 

 may also safely refer it here. M. Kapin identifies it as a species with the 

 Belgian coronata. M. Crepin states, after the study of authenticated 

 specimens, that it only differs from his plant by its leaves not glandular 

 beneath, and with less compound serrations, less glandular stipules, less 

 prickly calyx tube, and more elongated and leaf-pointed sepals : and he 



