65 THE NATURALIST. 



A plant gathered by James Backhouse and myself in Swaledale, North 

 Yorkshire, has several points of difference from that just described, and is 

 referred doubtfully by M. Deseglise to R. sylvicola, Deseglise and Elpart. 

 The habit of growth is looser. The main prickles are as slender as in 

 the VilloscB, and curved but slightly, the petioles being furnished, as in 

 ruhiginosa, with numerous unequal aciculi. The leaves are larger and but 

 faintly odorous, the terminal one being obovate with a rounded base. 

 The fruit has more of the ovate or elliptical urceolate shape of micrantha 

 than that of the typical plant, and is rather prickly, but the sepals are 

 those of rubiginosa, the more luxuriant ones being furnished with two or 

 three toothed spreading pinnse, and the styles are hairy. 



VII. — R. MICRANTHA. Smith. A tufted shrub six to eight feet in 

 height, with arching stems and ascending flexuose branches. Prickles 

 uniform, uncinate, those of the mature stem with bases about three- 

 eighths of an inch deep, the prickle from a quarter to three-eighths of an 

 inch long, narrowed suddenly above the base, but the lower part moderately 

 robust. Well developed leaves of the barren stem from two and a half to 

 three inches from the base to the apex of the terminal leaflet, which is 

 usually typically ovate, but sometimes obovate or roundish, and measures 

 from an inch to an inch and a quarter long by from three quarters to seven- 

 eighths of an inch broad. Leaflets thinner in texture than in the pre- 

 ceding, bright green and glabrous or very nearly so above, hairy on the 

 principal ribs beneath, thickly scattered over with faintly odorous viscid 

 glands, the serratures open and much toothed, each tooth being gland- 

 tipped, and the petioles both pubescent and setose, and usually furnished 

 with three or four falcate aciculi. Stipules with erecto-patent or divergent 

 auricles, occasionally pubescent, and the lower ones always densely glan- 

 dular on the back, but the upper ones and the ovate lanceolate bracts 

 usually glabrous on the back, all densely setoso-ciliated. Peduncles 

 densely aciculate and setose. Calyx tube narrowly ovate-urceolate, either 

 naked or slightly prickly at the base. Sepals simple or pinnate, from 

 three-quarters of an inch to an inch long, lengthened out and leafy at the 

 point, but the more luxuriant ones with only one or two small narrow 

 erecto-patent hardly toothed pinnae on each side, all densely glandular on 

 the back. Petals pale rose-coloured, often not more than half an inch 

 broad and deep, so that the fully expanded corolla is scarcely more than 

 an inch across. Styles glabrous or very nearly so. Sepals spreading out 

 level after the petals fall, afterwards ascending. Fruit bright scarlet, in 



