212 Botanical Society of London. 



carinatis spiniferis, spinis siinplicibus ; ossiculis ovarialibus parvis, ora- 

 libus ad latera nudis ; cirrhis siinplicibus. 



Three species inhabit the ^gean Sea, of which one is undescrlbed. 

 I'heir characters are thus given : — 



A. FLORIFEKA, ForbcS. 



A, disco squamis centrahbus maximis rosulatis, scutellis ovatis disjunctis, 

 squamis radiorum supcrioribus quadratis : inferioribus trilobatis : late- 

 ralibus 3-spinifeiis ; spinis brevissiniis linearibus simplicibus. 



yl. nefjlecta, Forbes. 



A. disco squamis centrahbus parvis rosulatis, scutellis oblongis conjunctis, 

 squamis radiorum supcrioribus quadratis : inferioribus oblongis : late- 

 ralibus 4 — 5-spiniferis ; spinis brevibus simplicibus. 



Ophiura ncglecta, Johnston. 



A. Chlajii, Forbes. 



A. disco squamis minutis rosulatis, scutellis cuneatis divergentibus apici- 

 bus approximatis, squamis radiorum supcrioribus lenticularibus : infe- 

 rioribus quadratis sulcatis : lateralibus 4-spiniferis ; spinis longis sim- 

 plicibus. 



Ophiura filiformis, Cliiaje (nee Miiller). 



Lastly, the author adopts the genus Ophiothrix of Miiller and 

 Troschel, with the following revised character : — 



Ophiothrix, 



Corpus orbiculare, spinosum, ad pcriplieriam radiatum ; radiis simplicibus, 

 squamosis, squamis supcrioribus imbricatis, lateralibus carinatis spi- 

 niferis ; spinis scrrulatis ; ossiculis ovarialibus parvis, oi'alibus ad latera 

 nudis ; cirrhis pinnatis. 



Ophiothrix Rosiila is common in the ^gean Sea. 



Figures are given of all the new genera and species, with nume- 

 rous magnified details. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Aug. 4, 1843.— J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S. &c., President, in the Chair. 



Read " Notes on a variety of Rosa sarmentacea (Woods) (found 

 near Bridgewater by Mr. Clarke)," by Mr. Edwin Lees, F.L.S. &c, 

 Mr. Lees had known this variety for some years ; and though there 

 was considerable difference in the more or less deeply cut serratures 

 of the foliage, he always found the calyx to be fringed with stalked 

 glands as well as the flower-stalks ; the tube is generally but spa- 

 ringly so, or even naked. It is abundantly covered with glands in 

 this specimen, which is, therefore, a more than usually glandulose 

 variety of R. sarmentacea. In some MS. observations on this species 

 made in 1836, Mr. Lees observed : — 



" Calyx pinnate, i-ather densely covered with glandular bristles, 



which, united to a purplish bloom on their segments as well as on 



the tube, gives this rose a peculiar and very elegant appearance." 



The petioles are always more or less glandular, without prickles, 



diff'ering in this respect materially from R. canina, as well as in the 



particulars mentioned above. 



Mr. Lees had often observed, that the young foliage of this species 



