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of those labelled R. arvatica Christ refers to: His notes tally 
fairly well with Scheutz’s description and specimen, but the only 
ut not Scheutz’s, though no doubt these organs vary. 
ave seen a plant at Kew, collected by Scheutz, labelled 
“fi. sclerophylla Christ non Scheutz,” which is quite different to 
Scheutz’s plant, and bears no resemblance to R. tomentella. It 
belongs, I think, to R. coriifolia. I cannot therefore understand 
€ synonymy in E. B. ed. 3 Supp. p. 146, wherein he quotes 
fi, sclerophylla Christ non Scheutz as a synonym of R. tomentella 
Lém, 
Rosa TOMENTELLA Lém. var. NIcHOLSONI 
Christ in Botanical Exchange Club Report, 1880, p. 16, 
“ Differs from tomentella in slender prickles, teeth deeper, 
almost simple. Plant more glabrous. Sepals hispid on back. 
oid,” 
The above meagre description was based upon a plant gathered 
at Sharon-on-the-Ure, near Ripon, Yorkshire, by Mr. Nicholson; 
a specimen of which is preserved in the Kew Herbarium. It has 
straightish, moderately stout prickles, hardly slender, as Christ 
says. The leaflets are ovate, and broadly rounded below ; 
almost simply serrate, only here and there irregular, glabrous 
above and almost so beneath, being only inconspicuously hairy 
on the nerves. The midrib has minute glands, but not the secon- 
dary nerves, though the surface is densely microglandular. Pe- 
tioles finely pubescent, but scarcely glandular. Fruit small, 
globose, on solitary peduncles, one of which has two sets, the 
other none. Styles longish, rather thickly hispid, quite loose. 
The specimen has no sepals. . 
This seems to me to be nearer R. Deseglisei than R. tomentella, 
but in deference to Dr. Christ’s opinion I leave it under the latter. 
Rosa ARVATICA 
“ Puget” ex Baker in Review, p. 33 (1864), 
rib, glandular on midrib and’ secondary nerves. 
rately sharp and o d numerous, each with 2-3 gland-tipped 
eeth inal narrowly ovate or elliptical, narrowed at base. Pe- 
Pp ? : y 
ovate or subglobose, not turning scarlet till the beginning of 
_ October, by which time the sepals have fallen. . Styles glabrous, 
