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other experiment which seems to make evident the transition of a 
partly sterile hybrid into a well-known constant race is described in 
my * PA Ruborum Germanie,” p. 46. 
ve also succeeded in producing hybrids by fertilisation of A. 
Ideus. ak, R. Bellardi, Wh. et N., with pollen of R. casius 
The produ ucts are quite sterile, and that of R. Ideus sna the 
spontaneous hybrids described as 2. ideoides, R. cesio-Ideus, e 
Finally. it is of some eesti to state bao I have raised a ec seed- 
lings from the curious sport of R. Jdeu med by Prof. Babington 
. Leesti. It had already been desribed in 1811 by Willdenow 
(Berl. Baumz., ed. 2, p. 409) under the name of AR. obtusrfolius as a 
the ovaries osm are imperfectly closed. Seeds, therefur 
rare, but it seems, as far as [ have seen, that the young plants raised 
from them apreleets the peculiar shape of the leaves of their 
parents. 
SHORT NOTES. 
: “aie noposa, var,—I have specimens gathered by myself, 
viz.: 1. With green flowers ; Tenby, Aug., 1848 Wi green 
1863. 
of my “ Manual.” —C. C. Basi 
Agrrmonra oporAta.—I found phi at the Burn of Mar Balmaha, 
Stslngsire, ae al 27th, 1877, in some quantity. The station 
reminds very much of that in Glen Eaisdale, Annan.—S. Crate- 
Pcie gp 
Rosa mottts, Sm., 1s Herts.—In August, when riding betwee: 
Welwyn and Hitchin, roe attention was drawn to the peculiar look of 
the leaves of a Rose in the roadside hedge, and on examination it 
proved to be Rosa mollis. There were several bushes scattered over 
the sai of 2 hundred and fifty yards, and were of large size, owing 
How 10 PRESERVE THE SPORES oF AGaRrctyt AND Potyporer.—Cut 
the pileus from the stem at the el of the gills and place it on a 
piece ed — pleane pane? age? colour of which is to be spans to 
nted from =e 
have usually arranged this in the evening, and the constant succession 
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