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(x) Coriifolia. One native specimen only of this, and that still sub judice 
as to whether it is to be claimed by Herefordshire or Monmouthshire, exists. It 
was gathered some years ago by Mr. Burton Watkins just on the borders of the two 
counties; and the exact bush is now destroyed or unknown. This Rose is a common 
and well marked form in the northern and north midland counties : and itis curious 
to notice, that though becoming extremely rare, it does not altogether disappear 
from south England. It is given by Mr. Archer Briggs at a single station in the 
neighbourhood of Plymouth. It occupies, similarly, a single known station in 
the counties of Hereford and Monmouth. 
The following remark by Mr. Purchas as to its habit of growth in North 
Staffordshire, where it is very common, I can confirm from my own observation. 
“The general growth of R. coriifolia much resembles that of mollissima ; so much 
so that, at the season when neither leaves nor fruit are present, it would be 
difficult to distinguish these two, were it not for their prickles. The stems are 
stiff and erect; the branches 12 to 18 inches long; not arching, as in ordinary 
canina. Like mollissima, it grows in colonies ; a mode of growth due to the fact 
that the suckers from which new stems arise are shorter than in ordinary canina. 
Moreover, the internodes are very short ; and the stem has the deep vinous purple 
which marks R. mollissima.” 
With regard to the Sub-cristate generally, I may add that, not only are they 
much less frequent in Herefordshire than in the north of England, but they seem 
also less distinct from ordinary canina. Botanising in the north of England, you 
know them at a glance ; and their assurgent and persistent sepals give them a 
character which, primé facie, would make you hesitate in assigning them to the 
same species as the e-cristate forms of canina. In Herefordshire, on the contrary, 
they are often only one degree removed from ordinary lutetiana and dumalis ; the 
sepals being in the greater number of cases only partially persistent and assurgent ; 
often, moreover, these characters are oddly inconstant on the same bush, and even 
the same fruit; on which you may find one turning up and sticking on; two 
falling off as ordinary well behaved canine should ; while the two remaining ones 
have not quite made up their minds. It is thus quite common to come across 
bushes which it is impossible to assign, with certainty, to the E-cristate or 
Sub-cristate divisions. Yet, again, we have in Herefordshire, although rarely, as 
“good” Reuteri and sub-cristata as any in Yorkshire or Cumberland. 
This brings us to the end of the varieties ot this many headed Cerberus, Rosa 
canina, so far as Herefordshire is concerned. A third section of its endless forms, 
the Sub-rubiginosz, in which the glandular development of the leaves is such as to 
mimic the Sweet-brier Group, is unrepresented in Herefordshire by a single form. 
8. Rosa stylosa, Desv. var. a. Systyla. Upon this Rose I can give 
no information, I can but ask for information. It is given by Mr. Lees (Malvern 
Botany), for two stations in the Ledbury District. There is no doubt that these 
records are right ; especially as Mr. Towndrow finds the Rose on the Worcester- 
shire side of the hills. Still, as in the case of R. Doniana, a Rose-record of 20 
years standing stands in need of re-verification ; and recent and fuller records of 
this plant, accompanied by specimens, are highly to be wished. 
