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mostly uniserrate, quite eglandular beneath, and usually, 
but not always, glabrous. The amount of pubescence seems 
to depend on which variety of the ew-canine is the second 
parent. 
Until recently Smith’s description in “ Eng. Bot.,” 1810, 
was accepted as the earliest, but it has been poimted out in 
“Journ. Bot.,” 1907, that the same rose had been described by 
Templeton in “ Trans. Dublin Soc.,” 1802, and so he must 
stand as the author of the name. At all events, Dr. Christ 
was again the first to express the opimion (“ Journ. Bot.,” 
1875) that R. hibernica is a hybrid of R. pimpinellifolia 
and a canine form. 
In 1866 the plant was collected by Gorrie near Ormiston, 
and this is probably the first record for Scotland. In 
“Trans. Bot. Soc.,” 1867, we read: “Mr. Gorrie presented 
specimens of a rose which he found growing on the side of 
the old road which divides the counties of East and Mid- 
Lothian, between Melville Hall and Bellyfurd Burn, in the 
month of August last.” Gorrie sent specimens to several 
botanists, but no one referred it, at the time, to any named 
species. It seems that Sadler, some years afterwards, had 
sent specimens from the same bush to Baker, who referred 
it to his variety levigata of R. imvoluta. This simply 
points to the difficulty of referrmg these hybrids even to 
their proper group. On the sheet of Gorrie’s plant in the 
Botanic Garden herbarium there is the following note by 
Webb :—‘ In 1876 I happened to be alongside Baker at 
Kew when he was sorting some specimens for the herbarium. 
Among them was a rose from Sadler to be named (a 
previous insufficient specimen had been sent, but not com- 
plete enough to determine), and I believe these specimens 
are the same. Baker called it R. involuta var. levigata 
of his monograph. From the present specimens I have 
little hesitation in saying hibernica.’ It would appear, 
therefore, that Webb was the first to refer this Ormiston 
rose to its proper place. 
The plant resembles the original Irish forms in having 
the under surface of the leaflets hairy, and, until two years 
ago, was the only form of R. hibernica with hairy leaflets 
known in Scotland. In “Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.,’ 1908, it is 
recorded from Banffshire by Mr. Barclay. The leaflets of 
