64 THE NATURALIST. 



viscid glands, which are sometimes confined to the midrib and secondary 

 veins, the serratures moderately open, and each furnished with two or three 

 fine gland-tijDped teeth, the petioles pubescent and abundantly setose, and 

 furnished with three or four falcate aciculi. Stipules with hmceolate 

 erecto-patcnt auricles, the lower ones usually both pubescent and setose 

 on the back, the upper ones and the lanceolate acuminate bracts usually 

 glabrous, but all closely setoso-ciliated. Peduncles hispid, but much less 

 densely so than in the preceding, the setae and. especially the aciculi 

 w-eaker, sometimes altogether absent. Calyx tube gracefully ovate or 

 elliptical urceolate, naked or casually a little aciculate. Sepals three- 

 quarters of an inch long, the blade ovate-lanceolate, the point rather 

 lengthened out and leafy, but not so much so as in the preceding, the more 

 luxuriant ones furnished with two or three large toothed erecto-patent 

 pinuffi on each side, setoso-ciliated and varying from almost naked to a 

 good deal glandular on the back. Petals pink, from three-quarters to 

 seven-eighths of an inch broad and deep, so that the fully exj)anded corolla 

 measures about an inch and a half across. Styles hairy. Fruit ovate- 

 urceolate, deep scarlet, in texture resembling that of R. canina, ripening 

 in September, by which time most or all of the sepals have fallen. 



This species is intermediate between micrautha and canina, differing 

 from the former by the larger size of all its parts, in which it corresponds 

 with tomentosa and canina, by the much fewer glands of its leaves, stipules 

 and bracts, by the feebleness of the setce and aciculi of its peduncle, or by 

 their entire absence, by its somewhat hairy styles, and by its broader 

 bladed sepals which are much less glandular on the back, not so 

 much lengthened out and dilated at the point, and the more luxuriant 

 ones copiously pinnate, with toothed leafy pinnae. M. Deseglise con- 

 siders it distinct from U. inodora, Fries, of which he has seen authenticated 

 specimens, which I have not : but he identifies the German R. inodora, 

 Reich, with our plant. Fries himself says (Summa) that his plant is 

 distinct from canina by its densely viscid leaves and long enduring 

 sepals, and in neither case docs this seem to ai^ply well to our 

 plant, which is certainly not identical with, though nearly allied to, the 

 French R. Kluckii. I have seen R. Borreri from two stations in Yorkshire 

 — Lodge Dingle, near Settle, (John Tatliam), and a hedge at Holdgatc, 

 near York, (James Backhouse) — and besides this from three counties only, 

 Worcestershire, Sussex, and Kent. The Northumbrian R. inodora, Winch, 

 may not unlikely be the true plant of Fries. It differs from R. Borreri by 



