GROUP OF EU-CANINE) X PIMPINELLIFOLIE 41 
France, and Germany. Like our own, they are not very fad 
defined, and cannot be nepeptime dealt with in a short note 
I propose therefore to specify one o 
. coronata ASL oe By its Reaativtion this would appear to 
come nearest to HK. Sabini, with which Mr. Baker pein it 
synonymous. It differs mainly in its leaflets being very much 
more glandular beneath, so much so that it might be thought to 
be a hybrid with one of the Rubiginose, but its leaflets are more 
tomentose than any species of that group, and the subfoliar 
therein. Crépin’s own specimens also differ from most of the 
present group in having almost uniform slender aciculate prickles 
with no minor armature or — little, though Crépin credits its 
prickles with being “very unequal some small.” This 
character throws some doubt on their hybrid origin. The leaflets 
uta, When he saw the maa He says it is a shorter, more 
slender plant bhai either 
His variety as seems even more remote from this group, 
and it is difficult to see why he places it as a variety of R. coronata 
at all. It has elliptical, slightly hairy, very glandular leaflets, 
remarkably shallowly bi waco and quite smooth peduncles and 
fruit. Its prickles and sepals are like those of the type, but the 
appearance of the plant is titel different. 
“ OF EU-CANINA x PIMPINELLIFOLIA. 
oup is a small one, the British forms numbering four, 
under ths collective name of R. hibernica, which is derived from 
one of the hairy-leaved Hu-canine, as is also var. cordifolia, ‘i 
though its other two varieties are derived from species with 
“a leaves. 
pita ae into a few clusters. The leaflets, though usually of a 
a 
tule less suborbicular and decidedly more acute or acuminate 
a eee of the last group. They are simply serrate or 
almost so, and never densely hairy, more often glabrous or 
subglabrous, The uncles are almost always smooth, the 
sepals naked on the back and considerably pinnate, and the 
8 densely gece The fruit, usually abortive, shows no 
nstant differe 
Key To British SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
1 yee -ed hairy beneath 
Leaflets glabrous both sides. Peduncles smooth ...... ueboieess cesses 
