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needle-like. Well developed leaves of the barren stem measuring from two 

 inches to two inches and a half from the base to the apex of the terminal 

 leaflet, which varies from broadly ovate or obovate to roundish in shape, and 

 measures from three-quarters to an inch long by from three-eighths to 

 five-eighths broad. Leaflets bright green above, glabrous or very slightly 

 hairy, pnle green beneath, hairy only on the midrib and veins, but thickly 

 covered all over with viscid odorous glands, the serratures open and much 

 toothed, each tooth being gland- tipped, and the petioles both setose and 

 hairy, and usually furnished with numerous unequal setaceous aciculi. 

 Stipules with erecto-patent or divergent auricles, copiously glandular but 

 hardly hairy on the back, but the ovate lanceolate bracts nearly or quite 

 glabrous on the back, both densely setoso-ciliated. Peduncles densely 

 aciculate and setose. Calyx tube ovate-urceolate or subglobose, usually 

 naked, but sometimes prickly. Sepals mostly pinnate, the more luxuriant 

 ones with two or three long toothed spreading pinnEe on each side, glandular 

 on the back and with a dilated leafy point, the largest about five-ei"-hths 

 of an inch long. Petals usually of a full rose-colour, sometimes paler, 

 measuring about five-eighths of an inch each way and the fully expanded 

 corolla about an inch and a quarter across. Styles thinly hairy. Sepals 

 spreading out at about a level after the petals fall, afterwards ascendinf^. 

 Fruit measuring about half an inch each way, bright scarlet in colour, 

 typically subglobose or obovate in shape, not ripening till October, by 

 which time most of the sepals have fallen. 



In some parts of the North of England this is tolerably plentiful, but 

 it has been cultivated so much and so long, that the stations must often 

 be considered doubtfully indigenous. There are examples in Mr. Wat- 

 son's collection from as far nortlx as Inverness. Though in Scandinavia 

 this is a more northern species than either tomentosa or spinosissima, I 

 have not seen it with us at more than 250 yards above the sea level, whilst 

 they both ascend to 500 yards. It is reported from all the adjacent parts 

 of the continent. Of M. Deseglise's species our plant agrees best with 

 R. comosa, Ripart, which is included in his " Herbarium l\osarum." His 

 R. ruhiginosa has villose styles in combination with an aciculate ovoid 

 calyx tube, and leaves hairy upon the upper surface. His R. permixta 

 and R. septicola have narrower and more graceful calyces and fruit in com- 

 bination with glabrous styles and pubescent stipules. Under the former of 

 these he quotes E. riihifiinom of Alton's Hortus Kewensis but I have not 

 seen either of these from Britain. 



