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teata, Bast. The only British specimens I have seen were gathered near 

 Henfield by Mr. Borrer. This has stronger stems than in the type, more 

 spreading peduncles, and leaves shining upon the upper surfixce. The 

 leaves are similar in shape to those of E. arvensis, but the sepals are longer, 

 a little setoso-ciUated and somewhat more pinnate. As Mr. Borrer re- 

 marks of the English, so does M. Deseglise of the French plant, that it 

 closely resembles the well-known R. sempervirens in habit and appearance, 

 but in this the column of styles is hairy, and the leaves are evergreen. 

 Our British R. systyla — the plant originally figured in English botany 

 under the name of R. collina — was once supposed by Mr. Woods to be 

 identical with Bastard's plant of this name, but afterwards both he and 

 Mr. Borrer appear (see British flora) to have doubted their identity, and 

 to have considered that this and the continental plants called brevistyla, 

 leucochroa, and fastigiata, were really allied more closely to R. arvensis. I 

 have had the opportunity lately of examining a considerable number of 

 specimens labelled with these names by the continental botanists who 

 are most likely to know how to apply them correctly, and my own impres- 

 sion is in favour of the identity of Bastard's plant with ours. In habit and 

 appearance this latter resembles canina more than arvensis. The manner 

 of growth is that of the former, the stems being eight or ten feet high, and 

 the branches erecto-patent. The terminal leaflet is narrowly ovate or 

 elliptical, the leaves being glabrous upon the upper surface, slightly hairy 

 but not at all glandular beneath, and the serration usually as sharp and 

 close as in the ordinary forms of the Dog Eose. The peduncles are almost 

 always furnished, not with subsessile glands as in arvensis, but with aciculi 

 and setae, as in the RuUginosce or Villosce. In one instance only, that of a 

 specimen in Mr. Watson's collection, from Leigh Woods, near Bristol, 

 gathered by Mr. H. 0. Stephens, I have seen the plant with naked 

 peduncles. The sepals are leafy at the point, and the more luxuriant 

 ones are furnished with two or three erecto-patent leafy pinnce. The petals 

 are pink, and the fruit is ovate. The column of styles is very variable in 

 length, ranging from hardly protruded to as long as in R. arvensis. I have 

 seen it from Kent and Sussex northward to Worcester and westward to 

 Bristol. M. Deseglise distinguishes R. fastigiata from R. systyla by its 

 leaves more hairy beneath, sepals less pinnate, and less prominent 

 column of styles. I have seen our British R. systyla with the column 

 of styles as short as in the specimen of R. fastigiata with which M. 

 Deseglise furnished me, but not with the leaves so hairy on the lower sur- 



