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much rene by their bracts to say definitely. The styles are 
thinly his 
There are “two British plants in this cover in peel Déséglise. 
One is from West Kirby, Cheshire, by Webb, labelled by Mr 
Baker “ R. oreticn, excellent It has large hooked prickles. 
The petioles are pu scent as well as glandular. Leaflets rather 
strongly glandular. Styles hispid. Except for its eg 
midribs, this is really much nearer arvatica than Blondea 
to which it has quite a different aspect beyond the tecbniodl 
characters 
The other is also from Webb, collected at Hoylake, which is 
quite near West Kirby. It is a very similar-looking plant, but 
having hairy midribs is, I think, indisputably R. arvatica Baker; 
moreover, it is significant that, though this is in Déséglise’s cover 
of kt. Blondeana Rip., he has not written that name i 8 ms in 
serene with his almost saiversnl practice, nor does en- 
tion it in his Catalogue Raisonné, though he quotes the West 
Kinby pipe 
enti under fi. fr aekyphyiie Gren., I have not ae 
able 5 satiety aeauell that R. Blondeana Rip. exists in Britai 
even that it is distinct from the former; but I deal with it at 
length, as it has hitherto been regarded as British. 
The pig ae surroundin ng = pone @ana Rip. are increased 
by Ripart having described the four following varieties of it 
{a8 species), Melick Déséglise ais that he only imperfectly 
a m Rip. General characters of Blondeana, from 
which it "Sifters in its more prickly petioles, stipules eglandular 
beneath, styles obscurely hispid, and flowers flesh-coloured. 
R. controversa Rip. small sub-shrub much more slender 
than Blondeana and semi-glandulosa, prickles more hollowed 
ee stems thinner, and leaflets smaller. It differs especially 
n its glabrous styles; its peduncles and calyx-tube are almost as 
Bnd ular as those of andegavensis. 
eterita Rip. Styles villous, fruit roundish, peduncles 
smooth or with rare abortive glandular sete. 
fi. semi-glandulosa Rip. prey 8 — styles glabrous or 
have sometimes (or some of them re vot oar midribs, 
though they are never glandular on the secondary nerves. The 
R. canina yar. teed Rau, R. adscita Déségl., Ri. og yes 
Déségl. & Ozan. 
