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than in arvensis, and have the same coarse toothing, but there is 
a decided tendency to biserration. The petioles are densely glan- 
dular, the glands not extending to the glabrous or slightly hairy 
midribs. The peduncles are very densely covered with fine 
almost sessile glands. The fruit varies from subglobose to ovoid, 
and is often somewhat glandular. 
Examples labelled R. stylosa var. gallicoides Baker differ slightly 
but not essentially. Their main prickles are more numerous, 
stouter, and hooked, and the minor armature is often less dense. 
he leaflets are longer and more acuminate, and the fruit more 
elongate than in R. setosa, but every intermediate appears to exist, 
and although these features lend colour to rt ete aces that 
there may be two plants, an equall marae or n greater range 
is covered by foreign examples of R. gulicoides Déségl., and it is 
most paar that only one species exists. 
I have seen specimens from illiostettor Wood, Warwick; 
Brailsfor, Stydd, and Ashbourne, Derby; and near Malvern, 
or 
ROSA DIBRACTEATA 
Bastard in DC. et Lamark, Fl. de Fr. y. p. 587 (1815). 
“This beautiful species resembles in its habit R. sempervirens 
and £2. moschata but differs obviously in its styles being united 
into a glabrous not a hispid column, thus approaching R. arvensis 
BR. prostrata, but it is distinguished from them by its size and 
straight stem e lower branches are somewhat prostrate and 
have smaller and paler ag va the middle branches are erect, 
central branches hive two care acute mate “heer at their 
base; these bracts are wanting in the lower branches.” 
e name is spelt dibracteata in the work quoted, and the 
older specimens are usually so labelled, but bibracteata is the 
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ve, by himself. 
Déséglise, in Ess. Monog. p. 59 ssn, thus describes en oo 
* Shrub with pir branches, of a glaucescent or vio 
with straight auricles; niece Bor a corymb, aiianaede wi 
fine piney glands, and furnished with = or two opposite 
oblong acute glabrous bracts _— than the peduncles ; a 
tube ovoid, glabrous, or sprinkled wi th short glands; sepals en 
