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tory ; satisfied of the impossibility of growing them, exposed to the 

 atmosphere of Devonshire-street ; dissatisfied with the effects of 

 closely glazed cases ; I still determined to make trial of a plan that 

 should bring these wildings of the woods to my own door, and give 

 them the advantages, without the disadvantages, of a Wardian case. 

 Should the trial prove successful, should the results appear worth 

 communicating, I may resume my pen and scribble a few more dis- 

 jointed paragraphs, as a continuation of the present paper. 



Edward Newman. 



9, Devonshire Street, City, 

 14th June, 1845. 



Remarks on Ruhus diversifolius of Lindley. 

 By T. Bell Salter, M.D., F.L.S. 



Without wishing to become controversial, there is yet one point in 

 the communication of Mr. Lees, on which a few words appear to be 

 required ; and it is one which involves the question, what is the R. 

 diversifolius of Professor Lindley ? I believe all the difficulty and 

 doubt of the matter, may, at once, to adopt the facetious metaphor of 

 Mr. Lees, be solved by the fact, in' Dr. Lindley's case, of " the father 

 not knowing his own son." In the first edition of his Synopsis, Dr. 

 Lindley first describes a species by this name, which is placed in the 

 section with hairs and " neither bloom nor glands." The description 

 agrees with the form which is the R. vestitus (W. & N.), and which I 

 enumerate in my Selborne list as a variety of R. leucostachys ; and 

 the Horticultural Society's garden furnished Mr. Borrer with pre- 

 cisely this very form from the authentic plant of diversifolius. 



Subsequently to this, a second edition of the Synopsis appears, and 

 a specimen is named by Professor Lindley for Mr. Leighton. The 

 order of priority of these two latter circumstances I do not know, nor is 

 it material ; but that which concerns the point at issue, is as follows : 

 — a specimen of R. dumetorura was named, and that by the author 

 of the supposed species, R. diversifolius ; and, coincidently with 

 this, in the second edition of the Synopsis, though the description 

 itself is not materially altered, it is yet ranged under a fresh section 

 — that " with glandular bristles." The fact of Dr. Lindley's having 

 named a glandulose specimen as diversifolius for Mr. Leighton, I 

 had been aware of from Mr. Borrer's herbarium ; and I confess I was 

 a little amused at so distinguished a Professor mistaking a species of 



