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the more luxuriant ones with a pinna on each side.—I cannot tell 
whether this is more like Sabinz or rubiginosa. The prickles and 
leaves 089 seg eon a of “rs latter, the cite is rather that of 
the form It comes very near in some respects the French 
7 biturigensis Bor. . but this sera naked podiuitlel fruit, and 
als. 
quite straight, sometimes decidedly curved. They are stout, but 
not ab i 
acute than is usual in oo hybrids. Baker’s - 
“rather thickly sprinkled male s glands” is a tie deseip 
tion than his “densely piaadulak? 8 of = Monograph. I can 
very little resemblance to R. biturigen 
Mr. Marshall’s No. 813, from hated Beauly and Lentram, 
E. Inverness, labelled var. Nicholsonii Crép. by him, belongs here 
from its very stout curved prickles, large elliptical very acute 
leaflets, quite hairy both sides, more or less sprinkled all over 
beneath with fine glands. Its peduncles are 2-3 together, cas 
like those of R. gracilis, viz. one short and stout, and two 
and slender but straight, Se —e fruit sieashy mest: 
Sepals ee rather fully pin 
It is of course possible that “both var. Mooret and var. 
Nicholsonii aa been derived from some ve landt r 
of tomentosa, though few of them are, as a rule, sufficiently ~ 
ular; moreover the other characters tend to show a rubiginosa 
Parentage, rr a with which species of the subsection it is 
difficult to say. 
SECTION IV. CANIN. 
which _.. are meine rc Rouy, and Keller all treat it 
on much the same lines, giving it a broader significance than 
Déséglise did, who regarded it as equivalent only to the Eu-canine 
Subsection of the other three authors. The subdivisions followed 
by these four authors are set forth in my paper on the subsection 
Hu-canine in Journ. Bot , Suppl. 
I propose to subdivide the ‘section into three subsections, viz. 
Villose, ae @, and weenie psy the last-mentioned having 
been d with in this Journal as abo uoted. e leading 
characterises of the three are as thins, ad though exceptions 
be fo to all the characters mentioned, there sho 
ea be a difficulty in referring any example to its proper 
subsection. 
Villose.—In their typical form these have straightish, slender 
prickles, with small bases, very tomentose leaflets suhdali are often 
glandular on the lower surface, and almost t always very ene 
biserrate, onesie almost always and fruit generally ara : 
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