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as a dozen in a cluster. Calyx tube quite glabrous, sub-globose or tending 

 towards ovate, the segments about three-quarters of an inch in length, 

 conspicuously leaf-pointed and more usually pinnate than simple, quite 

 glabrous on the back, but with an occasional gland on the edges. Styles 

 hairy. Petals pale pink, the expanded corolla measuring not more than 

 an inch and a half across. Sepals spreading at right angles from the tube 

 or even somewhat reflexed after the petals fall, afterwards ascending. 

 Fruit ripe in October, globoso-urceolate, deep red and pulpy, measuring 

 about half an inch each way, crowned by the persistent ascending or 

 spreading sepals. This has been met with by Mr. Borrer and Professor 

 Oliver in the vale of Lorton, in Cumberland ; by Professor Oliver at 

 Witton-on-the-Wear, in Durham; by Mr. Webb in hedges near Great 

 Meols, in Cheshire ; and by Mr. Mudd and myself in hedges at Newton 

 and in Airy-holme Wood, in Cleveland, in North Yorkshire. In Mr. 

 Watson's herbarium there are two specimens from Surrey, labelled 

 " Eoadside at Combe Wood, on the left hand side near the top of the hill, 

 coming from the Robin Hood, towards Kingston : only one bush actually 

 seen and that I took away * * Mr. R. Castle," and there are as confirma- 

 tion of this several small specimens of what is evidently the same 

 amongst some roses dried by Mr. Watson, from Mr. Castle's garden. 

 The Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Surrey plants have quite glabrous leaves 

 and petioles, whilst the original Irish rose which was described under this 

 name has hairy petioles, and the midrib and principal veins on the under 

 side of the leaf are somewhat hairy also. Unless it be that in the latter 

 the sepals are a little more setose at the edge, I do not detect any other 

 difference. The Cumberland plant is slightly hairy ; the Durham one I 

 have not seen. 



The plant found by Professor Oliver, in Northumberland, in the dale 

 of the Coquet, which is placed doubtfully under this species in Babington's 

 Manual, presents some striking points of divergence from the type, in the 

 direction of B. Sahini. The prickles of the main stem are more slender, 

 and the large ones hardly at all curved. The peduncle instead of being 

 glabrous is rather closely aciculate and setose up to the top. The leaves 

 in shape recal those of Sahini, the leaflets of the barren shoots being much 

 rounded, often quite cordate at the base, and the serratures more open and 

 blunt than in the type. The petioles are shghtly hairy and setose, and 

 the leaves very slightly hairy beneath. 



