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neither Mr. Ley nor I have been able to discover, Crépin (op. 
ctt. xxiv. ~ 2, p. 54) remarks that their importance is consider- 
able. He says that all species and varieties of the fh. pomifera- 
mollis group may ~ distinguished from all the Tomentose by the 
stipules of the former being more or less dilate sea auricles of 
the middle and ora stipules of the a ng- -bra s are more 
eenerales: with Bivaizinae: ssclietes the ooter edge not bent round 
e direction of the petiole. He adds the significant remark 
ae these aan are not as a rule visible in herbarium speci- 
mens. If this test be as infallible as Crépin states, which I take 
the liberty of doubting, there should be no difficulty in separating 
this group gee the two which follow 
e above notes may appear long for a species which is 
doubtfully British, but Mr. Ley considers it native in Breconshire, 
and in two or three Scottish and North English stations. It is 
also certainly quite naturalized in other counties. Another reason 
for giving considerable detail is the fact that its characters and 
points of distinction from its pat do not seem to me to have 
Firth, both in Roxburgh and Ross, “ Mr. Bailey. The Glou- 
cestershire specimens are Rf. recondita Pug., if that species can 
stand at i 
The of R. villosa Linn. is too indefinite to retain. It 
Goattlecs ‘reca both R. pomifera and Rf. sacedoags 
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Puget in Déséglise, Revue de la Sect. Toment. p. 46 (1866). 
“Tow shrub, 46 cm. to 1m. 50 em. high, with violaceous 
purple branches. Prickles of the stem scattered, little shamiantt 
- dilated at the base in the form of a disc, whitish, little robust, 
long, straight, horizontal, those of the young branches of a fulvous 
colour, some very dilated at the base, often geminate. Petioles 
channelled above, Lari a -tomentose, with fulvous glands, prickly 
ben Leafie to 7, or sometimes 9, large, all petiolulate, 
trio oval, sounded at base, 3-4 ¢ pote oe cemal ak 
, gland-fri 
Paciancion iad r 2-4, pai or | sig eo ‘with sebaceous 
glandular spines, with jae bracts often islnesons at apex, glabrous 
above, pubescent and scattered glandular beneath, usually longer 
than the _ sen? Calyx-tube subglobose, with os gland- 
tipped spines. Sepals hispid-giandolery, ending: in te folinonems: 
