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about an inch and a half across, and the styles are hairy. The fruit 

 appears to ripen as in Sdbini, but to have more of a tendency to an ovate- 

 urceolate shape. The calyx segments spread out at about right angles 

 from the tube when the petals fall, but afterwards ascend. Mr. Wilson 

 visited the station again last autumn, and has kindly taken considerable 

 pahis to show me that the sepals are really persistent. The best character 

 which we have to distinguish it from Sdbini seems to be in the toothing 

 of the leaves, so that we can scarcely, in my view, regard it safely as a 

 species of primary value. 



The figures of II. Sabiiii and B. Wilsoni in English Botany are both 

 taken from unusually luxuriant specimens, and this has perhaps given rise 

 to some misapprehensions respecting them. M. Crepin for instance, 

 (Notes p. 28) questions whether 2594 be really Sablni at all, and not a 

 very robust specimen of a form of R. mollissima. I think there can be no 

 question of its being really the true plant, but it is confessedly from a 

 garden-grown bush. Plate 583 for size and general habit shews our 

 common form well, but not the characteristic armature of the stems, and 

 the fruit is from a garden-grown bush of R. pomifera. 



III. — E. HiBEENicA Smith. A stoloniferous shrub, with somewhat 

 arching main stems, 4 to 6 feet in height, and more robust shoots than the 

 preceding. Stems densely beset with prickles, which pass gradually into 

 acicuii, and sometimes furnished also with a few setae. Largest prickles of 

 the mature stems with bases three-eighths or even half an inch deep, nar- 

 rowed suddenly to a compressed needle, the prickle three-eighths of an inch 

 long, varying from nearly straight to decidedly falcate, and the prickles and 

 aciculi of the flowering shoots often curved considerably. Well developed 

 leaves of the barren shoot of the year about four inches from their base to 

 the apex of the terminal leaflet, which is broadly ovate and measures an 

 inch and a quarter long by three-quarters or seven-eighths broad. All the 

 leaflets bright green above, paler and somewhat glaucous beneath, and 

 (in the Yorkshire and Cheshire plants) quite without hairs, and with only 

 an occasional seta on the midrib beneath and the petioles, the serrations 

 as sharp and close as in the ordinary forms of canina, the lower teeth 

 occasionally gland-tipped. Stipules glabrous on the back or very nearly 

 so, and not at all glandular, with lanceolate erecto-patent auricles, rather 

 closely setoso-ciliated, the bracts the same. Peduncles quite naked, 

 solitary, or two or three together, and on vigorous shoots, as in all the 

 rest, except the essentially solitary flowered species, there may be as many 



