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form, corresponding with the three specimens in his herbarium. 
Both Smith and Woods suspected some error, but neither appears 
to have realized its full extent. 
Winch was the first to call attention to the plant, in Bot. 
nd in vol. ii. pref. p. 5, 
- tomentosa. Its leaflets are densely covered with down, aculei _ 
long and straight, flowers numerous, large, and always white tinged 
with red at the extremity of the petals, its fruit is large in shape, 
here obviously refers to his mollis form, and yet the plant figured 
mith, which is marked as coming from the very stations 
quoted by Winch, has a note on the plate, ‘‘ midrib hairy at back,” 
and has a broadly ellipsoid calyx-tube very unlike that of 2. mollis. 
showing, flowers white blotched with red on the outside. Sepals 
spreading just after fall of petals, considerably pinnate. Peduncles 
rather long. 
» but the shape looks as if it could never be rounder 
than ovoid. No. 3, from Newcastle by Winch, is much more 
softly hairy, with a globose ealyx-tube. It is much more like a 
mollis form. 
y much ¢c Leaflets large, elliptical, and well spaced 
though there are many exceptions, and qui large proportion 
of these are softl both sides, though some of the e 
intended to distinguish R. scabriuscula from FR. tomentosa pri- 
marily by its subglabrous leaflets, these should be referred ccahe 
latter, even when slightly subfoliar-glandular, but I suspect the 
forms with conspicuous subfoliar glands must go to R. fetida 
Bast. The styles in British specimens vary consi yi 
hairiness. R. oe should have them subglabrous or 
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