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Spreading profusely in a flagelliforra manner, with stems two feet in 

 length, on the embankment along the Conway road, but never rooting 

 at the joints. Leaflets very deeply cut, covered on both sides with 

 long, adpressed hairs. I see no good reason for not admitting this a 

 species, as is done by Linnaeus and Sir J. E. Smith. 



Rosa spinosissima. This ubiquitous coast rose not only covers the 

 Conway sands in dwarf thickets, but ascends to the very summit of 

 the Orme's Bead. 



Sabini, /3. Doniana (R. Doniana, Sm.). Surely most distinct 



from R. villosa and its varieties, indeed almost as spinose as the 

 preceding, but with a fruit very different in aspect that can never be 

 mistaken. I am well acquainted with this rose from having sent a 

 living plant to the late Mr. Sabine, at his request, for the Horticultu- 

 ral Society's Garden, many years ago, from Worcestershire. I found 

 it in August this year, growing in a bushy field in Anglesea, by the 

 side of a lane leading up the hill from Bangor Ferry. Davies, who 

 notices many roses in his ' Welsh Botanology,' has no record of this 

 species, and I believe that it has never before been observed in Wales 

 — certainly not so far west as this. 



micrantha. A variety I would call humilis. This is a cu- 

 rious little rose, with excessively glandulose, doubly-serrated, sharply- 

 pointed leaflets, but with the flower-stalks and calyx-tube quite 

 smooth, as in R. canina. Dwarf, with sweet-scented foliage and 

 very small flowers. On the bare limestone ribs of the Little Orme's 

 Head and Cadir-y-Nain. 



septum. This well-marked rose I observed very fine and vi- 

 gorous at a spot more than a mile from Caernarvon, beyond Pont 

 Seiont, on the Pwlheli road. Petioles and midribs of leaflets exces- 

 sively crowded with glands, leaflets broadly-ovate, hairy beneath. 

 Calyx persistent, and reclining on the half-ripe, almost globular, se- 

 tose fruit, the sepals elongated, with leafy points. The broad leaflets 

 crowded together and numerous flower-stalks give it a very different 

 aspect to rubiginosa, its nearest affinity. Foliage sweet-scented. 



villosa and lomentosa are not uncommon in Anglesea and 



throughout Wales. 



Pyrus Aria, &. intermedia. The usual form adorns with its silvery 

 foliage the face of many of the most precipitous cliffs of the Orme's 

 Head. A dwarf specimen near " St. Tudno's Cradle," or the Rock- 

 ing Stone, had its leaves lobed quite as much as the celebrated plant 

 on Castle Dinas Bran, near Llangollen, to which so many authors 

 refer. 



