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numerous fine acicles on the stem than any other I have seen. 
The leaflets also are smaller and rounder, though still quite oval 
and decidedly cordate at base. 
This species may be recognized in its group by its quite uni- 
serrate leaflets, the only others having them sometimes nearly uni- 
Rosa InvonuTa var. OCCIDENTALIS 
Baker, Monogr. Brit. Roses, p. 207 (1869). 
“Very near Wilsoni, but the leaves smaller, slightly hairy 
beneath, and the petioles glanduloso-setose and aciculate, the 
main sepals not more than half an inch long, with one or two 
This variety was originally described by Lindley as R. spino- 
sissima var. pilosa (see p. 21), but Mr. Baker thought it better 
placed in the present group, to which Crépin says it undoubtedly 
belongs. It bears very close resemblance to R. spinosissima, 
so close that it might readily be passed over, in the herbarium at 
least, for that species, except for its hairy midribs. 
are open. 
Foreign SpEctes oF PIMPINELLIFOLIE Xx VILLOS. 
__Forms of this group of hybrids are found under some twenty 
different names, including several of our British ones, very thinly 
‘ed over North-Western Europe, viz., Scandinavia, Belgium, 
