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liad recorded, — " Califx pinnate, rather densely covered with glandular bristles, which 

 united to a purplish bloom on the segments, as well as on the tube, gives the rose a pe- 

 culiar and very elegant appearance.'' The petioles are always more or less glandular, 

 without prickles, differing in this respect materially from Rosa canina, as well as in 

 the particulars mentioned above. There is another point, too, which deserves atten- 

 tion. Mr. L. had often observed that the young foliage of this species has a faint but 

 very perceptible cowslip-like scent, but he had never observed this in the leaves of R. 

 canina. Mr. L. contended that Rosa scabriuscula was a good species, though it must 

 be observed that the calyx-tube varies in being more or less covered with stalked 

 glands, and that therefore Smith is wrong, in the ' English Flora,' in saying with re- 

 gard to it, " quite smooth and naked.'' 



The character of this plant, as differing from Rosa canina, consists in the glandu- 

 losity of the pinnate calyx and of the peduncle, and in the petioles being slightly glan- 

 dular, without prickles, or with very weak ones. 



This rose, as far as Mr. Lees had observed, is not very abundantly distributed, be- 

 ing somewhat local, and plentiful only in particular spots. 



Read, " Notice of the Mosses found in the neighbourhood of Bristol," by Mr. G. 

 H. K. Thwaites, M.E.S. The author enumerated 133 species as indigenous to that 

 locality, several of which appear to be new to the British Flora. Amongst those most 

 interesting to the British muscologist, may be mentioned the following. 



Didymodon Bruntoni 



rigidulus 



crispulus, Wils. M.S. 



brachydontus, do. 



flexicaule 

 Trichostonium fasciculare 



polyphyllum 

 Barbula rigida 



convoluta 



laevipala 



cylindrica, Wils.M.S. 



latifolia 



Funaria Muhlenbergii, 



[/3. patula 

 Bryum albicans 



atropurpureum 



cernuum 



rostratum 

 Banramia pomiformis 

 Leucodon sciuroides 

 Hypnum riparium 



murale 



piliferum 



Hypnum crassinervium 



strigosum 



circinatum 



caBspitosum 

 Hookeria lucens 

 Tetraphis pellucida 

 Encalypta streptocarpa 

 Weissia Staikeana 

 Grimmia orbicularis 

 Gynostomum viridissimum 



fasciculare 

 Orthotrichum Rogeri 



salebrosum 



The President drew the attention of the Society to an abnormal form of Ophrys 

 apifera, which had been sent to him by a lady, from Dorking. The two lower flowers 

 of the spike had two distinct united columns, the upper normal one being rather the 

 longest, and overlapping the other; the upper flowers had three columns united into a 

 singlar triangular mass ; the upper petals of each of the flowers were rather reduced ; 

 the lips of the two lower flowers were small, and retained in part the usual character 

 of the flower, but the lip of the upper flower was lilac, and exactly resembled the sepals 

 in form and colour. The three sepals of the middle flower were united together nearly 

 to the lip, as was the case also with two sepals of the terminal flower. The ovaries of 

 all the flowers were of the normal structure. 



The President stated that the Rev. Gerard E. Smith had figured an Ophrys with 

 a similar triple column, but his specimen was quite destitute of a lip. He also ob- 

 served that it might be worth while to examine if this excessive development of the 

 column is always coexistent with the reduced development of the lip ; and that this 

 structure was quite distinct from the monstrosity of this plant described by Mr. His, 

 where each of the three petals was transformed iiitoapolleniferous column.— G.E.D. 



