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glandular nor prickly. Auricles acuminate. Peduncles solitary, 
2-1in., glandular-hispid. Fruit ellipsoid, smooth. Styles glabrous. 
Sepals all fallen in August. Other specimens in the cover differ 
in the prickles often being hooked, and the leaflets small. 
Déséglise has two British specimens. Baker’s No. 35, from 
ean Li ps edale, has slender, straight, or hardly at all 
rved pric Leaflets five, small, oval or elliptical, acute, 
mitirsiis fre hairy on midrib and veins, and thinly glandular 
beneath. Petioles closely pubescent, prickly but not much glan- 
both sides, or rarely densely so beneath, not very glandular ; 
petioles a good deal gunidaia thinly hairy, almost unarmed ; 
peduncles five in a cluster, }— in. Sema 2A Briggs 
thought this a globose-fruited form of RB. méer 
There are also two specimens so sah in the British 
collection. One from Sprowston, E. Norfolk, by Rey. 
fruit, and thinly hairy styles. It looks so me inore like 
R. apricorum, _Its sepals have fallen by September. The other 
s ; Linton, from ffham, Hunts, has more 
straight prickles, with acicles below eT gicugeront rather long 
peduncles, sto glandular-hispid fru and s aM reading-reflexed 
satire feature, thus givi ing if much eke same eh fice og to 
R. micrantha that var. rotundifolia bears to R. Eglanteria. Its 
leaflets, however, are, as a rule, rather vies though this is not a 
very constant character. It. forms one of the exceptions to the 
¢ group in often siogiien acicles tate it f inflorescence. Its 
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pone Species OF THE Group R. MICRANTHA. 
R. micrantha in Europe forms a group, second in size 
onl ib that of R. Eglanteria in peli A ro and it is quite 
likely that research will reveal pee eee in Britain, at 
least as distinct from those described above, as ph ogg which 
has slong heen admitted into our lists, is from 2. mir The 
