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Linaria Elatine, L. spuria, and L. minor were abundant in the corn fields. 

 These plants, especially the Iberis, are general in the neighbourhood, and 

 the last named is so remarkably common, not only in corn fields, but by 

 roadsides, and even in woods, that I would suggest that the teim "local" 

 would convey a better idea of the frequency of its occurrence than that of 

 "rare," as given in our Floras. In a pit above West Wycombe Park, I 

 have seen specimens measuring at least a foot across, and covered with 

 blossoms so white as to be scarcely distinguishable from the surrounding 

 chalk ; in some plants the flowers are of a lilac hue. In the woods above 

 the Union are Neottia Nidus-avis, Orchis latifolia, Hahenaria bifolia, Hippo- 

 crepis comosa, &c., and by the roadside I gathered the garden form of Pyre- 

 thrum Parthenium. CheUdonium majus occurs by the gate of Bradenham 

 House ; and in the corn fields opposite Bradenham Anagallis carulea is 

 abundant. I cannot help thinking that this is specifically distinct from 

 A. arvensis, although the last named occasionally varies in the colour of 

 its flowers. The three above-named Linarice are here in great strength. 



(To be continued.) 



REVIEW OF THE BEITISH ROSES, 

 ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE NOETH OF ENGLAND. 



By J. G. Baker, Esq., of Thirsk. 



Part V.— SYSTYLJE. 



Bushes with sub-erect or rampant stems, uniform short broad-based 

 strongly hooked prickles, simply serrated leaves, glabrous on the upper 

 surface, not glandular and at most only slightly hairy beneath, the pedun- 

 cles furnished with sessile glands, or with setse and aciculi, or occasionally 

 naked, the deciduous sepals naked or but slightly glandular on the back, 

 the styles united in a more or less prominent column. 



XII.>:^ — R. ARVENSIS. Huds. A bush only three or four feet in height 

 if not supported, with long wide-spreading trailing rooting shoots, which 

 are purple and bloomy when exposed. Prickles of the well-matured stem 



* I ought to have explained before that what I am numbering in series which 

 terminates here, are what I understand as species of primary value, of which I have 

 seen specimens from the six northern counties of England. 



