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reduced in size, several of its members being transferred to that 
of f. tomentosa. But further study is necessary before deciding 
where to draw the line. Perhaps FR. omissa Déségl. and R. rest- 
nosoides Crép. should form a group by themselves, the remainder 
going into the R. tomentosa group. The idea of forming the 
R. Sherardi group ace from the existence of R. omissa Déségl., 
which occupies a position just iakehniedints between Ff. mollis and 
R. tomentosa, but by basing the group mainly upon the relative 
persistence of the sepals, which is only one of several leading 
features of R. omissa, it has res malted | in the collection together of 
a number of species and varieties which have little in common, 
and which have always been regarded on the Continent as 
ER. tomentosa forte and unless very strong reasons can be ad- 
duced for making a change, it is better, or at least more conve- 
nient, to work on the same lines as our continental contem- 
poraries 
Of its members, R. omissa is a difficult species, to forms of 
which some of our plants may no doubt be referred, but I have 
not seen the typical plant from Britain. 2. resinosoides Crép. is 
very near it, but forms a connecting-link with var. pseudo-mollis, 
and through it with var. submollis Ley, R. Sherardi Davies, and 
var. uncinata Lees, so that it is difficult to say where the —- should 
be sawn before the tomentosa forms. There certainly see 
two forms which have been labelled R. subglobosa Sm. or its older 
name R. Sherardi Davies. Both these are placed under &. tomen- 
tosa Sm. on the Continent, as well as, until poeeene in this country, 
but I think it probable that one of the forms should be associated 
with R. omissa and the other with R. tomentosa. Var. wncinata 
Lees seems to me to be a hooked-prickled form of a Le of my 
closely allied species or varieties, the other four mem whic 
are R. sesmosouiee Crép., R. Sherardi Davies, var. si insoll — 
and var. pseudo-mollis E. G. Baker. There are —— uniserrate 
tana 
a second variety. The last-mentioned variety was wrongly st ted 
by me on p. 80 to have been first discovered by Mr. Nicholson; 
the pe for its first finding must be given to the Messrs. Groves. 
he 
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of R ior gee arm into this, and 
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