FOREIGN SPECIES OF THE GROUP ROSA SPINOSISSIMA 25 
poin nts to &. rubella Sm. ine either a good species or a variety of 
Lf. pimpinellifolia. 
There is a specimen at South Paciegien from Winch, a yi 
1823, with no locality, but it agrees so exactly with No. 3 o 
oods’ herbarium by the same collector that I bane little aoubt 
that it is from the same plant ‘on the sands of the coast south of 
Shields, Durham It has very small fine straight aciculi on 
some stems, no: eat all on others, and no larger prickles. The 
leaflets are alte. clita ova obtuse, most of the teeth bearing 
a secondary denticle e back, some petioles quite glandular, 
broadly ovoid. Sepals qu ae entire, very glandular on back. 
diagnose, and contain no notes as to the colours of he: some or 
fruit, so they must remain dou sbtful. The most recent I have 
seen was collected by Mr. Pickard near the Forth Bridge | in 1895. 
It resembles R. rubella in the uniformity of the acicles on the 
stem, but they are exceedingly numerous, much more so than i 
stouter than admixture of ed prckies 
The shape of the foadieta, | their aie biserration, the lan- 
dular petioles and pedune ‘les, and its very dwarf ite Hl favour 
f. rubella, but the specimen is only in flower, the colour not 
being stated. 
Foreign SPECIES oF THE Group R. sPINOSISsIMA. 
Though there is no special reason to suspect, from their dis- 
tribution or frequency on the Continent, that any of the following 
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Midribs glabrous :— 
Leaflets uniserrate 
Styles glabrous or + only thinly hispid :— 
fi. consimilis Déségl. This is very near BR. pimpinellifola 
but has glabrous dee ae midribs are said to be 
R. spreta D hei is cae but has thinly 
so seni SS ate and d fruit contracted 
