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and each furnished with two or three gland-tipped teeth, the terminal 

 leaflet narrowly ovate or elliptical, narrowed at the base, the petioles both 

 prickly and also pubescent and setose. Stipules and bracts hardly hairy 

 on the back, but some of the lower ones a little glandular, all closely 

 setoso-ciliated. Peduncles quite naked. Calyx tube ovate or elliptical, 

 the sepals copiously pinnate and leaf-pointed, closely setoso-ciliated and 

 slightly glandular on the back, spreading but not fully reflexed after the 

 petals fall. Fruit stone-hard when green, broadly ovate or subglobose, 

 not turning scarlet till the beginning of October, by which time the sepals 

 have fallen. Styles glabrous or only very slightly hairy. Hedges at 

 Sowerby and Kilvington, North Yorkshire, and there is a specimen from 

 Newcastle in Mr. Robertson's collection, marked as a connecting link 

 between canina and inodora. This is placed by M. Deseglise amongst the 

 EubiginoscB near B. sepiiim, which it resembles in the styles and shape of 

 the leaves. 



19. R. tomentella, Leman. Branches unusually lithe and flexuose 

 and prickles strongly hooked. Leaves flat, firm in texture, thinly hairy 

 all over above when young, paler and thinly hairy all over beneath, but 

 only very slightly glandular, the serrations open, spreading, triangular 

 cuspidate, as broad as deep, and each furnished with three or four acces- 

 sory'gland-tipped teeth, the terminal leaflet broadly ovate, much rounded 

 at the base and sometimes almost as broad as long, the petioles hairy and 

 setose, and furnished with three or four much hooked aciculi. Stipules 

 and bracts slightly hairy on the back, copiously setoso-ciliated. Peduncles 

 quite naked. Calyx tube naked, subglobose, the petals pale, the sepals 

 leaf-pointed and fully pinnate, slightly hairy but not all glandular on the 

 back, copiously setoso-ciliated, reflexed after the petals fall. Fruit sub- 

 globose, not turning scarlet till October, by which time the sepals have 

 fallen. Styles hairy, somewhat protruded. This I have seen in many 

 places in North Yorkshire, and have it also from Warwickshire, R obtusi- 

 folia-, Desv. R. Icucantha, Bast, which I have not seen from Britain, is 

 intermediate between this and No. 1. 



20. R. Baker'i, Deseglise, Syme. Stems six or eight feet high, scarcely 

 at all arching, purple where exposed, branches stiff and spreading, and 

 prickles more slender and less curved than in the normal plant. Leaves 

 full green, moderately firm in texture, covered all over with a thin coating of 

 soft silky hairs above, paler and hairy all over beneath, with a scattering of 

 small green viscous glnnds, the serrations open and many times toothed with 



