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universally the globular part of the calyx, whose segments are 
very bristly. Petals pale red, sometimes deep at the margins, all 
concave, and scarcely half expanded. Styles short. Ripe fruit 
not hitherto observed.’ 
Mr. Baker, in Monog. p. 207, calls this R. involuta var. Smithiz, 
and describes it thus :—* A stunted erect bush, with leaflets naked 
when mature on the upper surface, hairy principally on the mid- 
rib beneath, and scarcely at all glandular, the serrations closer 
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gracilescens, and Fobertsoni], and but slightly compound; the 
flowers solitary, the peduncle and calyx-tube densely aciculate, 
the sepals simple.” 
Smith has three specimens on one sheet in his herbarium. 
No. 1, from the Western Isles of Scotland, by Mackay, has almost 
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The other specimen looks different, and has its leaflets much 
It would do very well, I think, for 
eee | oles have many small 
but glabrous or very nearly so. The 
rs ea densely glandular-his id, also the sepals 
“ . . ll . su Bense 
that it is not easy to determine its limits from specimens, some of 
. ave had a mollis origin. Even those specimens 
