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plant. Mr. Borrer's specimens of Smith's original Tunbridge Wells 

 subglohosa have slightly glandular leaves and stipules and the calyx 

 segments more roughly coated on the back with aciculi and setae than in 

 any other form I have seen. The name subglohosa is applied in Switzer- 

 land to a plant which is considered as distinct from tomentosa by M. Renter 

 but according to specimens from Dr. Fauconnet, this is identical with the 

 French subglohosa, not with Smith's plant. B. tomentosa 7 of Woods and 

 Borrer, of which there is an original specimen amongst Mr. Robertson's 

 Roses, seems to me to belong to the CanincB, under which it will be noticed. 



I have not seen this species from further north in Britain than 

 Aberdeenshire. In the North of England it is the commonest rose except 

 canina, and like the preceding ascends to 500 yards above the sea level. I 

 should suppose it to be much more plentiful in the South of England than 

 the preceding, and have specimens now before me from Devonshire, Sussex, 

 and Kent. Its restricted distribution in Scandinavia has already been 

 pointed out, but throughout all the rest of the adjacent parts of the 

 continent it seems to be universally diffused. 



A plant from the neighbourhood of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, 

 contributed to Mr. Watson's collection by the late Mr. Hailstone comes 

 near B.farinosa, Eau. It has slender prickles, hardly at all curved, leaves 

 thinly hairy on both sides, very slightly glandular on the midrib beneath, 

 hairy petioles with but few setse, quite naked subglobose calyx tube, 

 naked or very slightly setose peduncles, sepals almost all quite simple, 

 with a lengthened leafy point, some with a broad tomentose margin and 

 very slightly glandular on the back, but others green to the edge and very 

 thinly coated with setse. 



NOTES UPON RARE AND INTERESTING PLANTS. 



Bt Leo H. Grindon. 



I have just returned from a three days' visit to North Lancashire and 

 the Lake District, whither a party of eight made their way, last week, for 

 the purpose of botanizing. The afternoon of Thursday, May 19 th, was 

 spent at Silverdale. Here grows the fly-orchis, Ophrys muscifera, Sesleria 

 ccerulea, Arenaria verna, and many other plants not ordinarily met with. 



