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bat  the  white  flowers  are  unusual.  Var.  Scheutzii  Chr  is 
the  only  other  white-flowered  variety  of  mollis  known  to 
me,  but  it  is  not  that. — A.H.W.-D. 
i?.  niollis  8m.,  var.  ccerulea  Woods.  On  stony  stream 
debris,  Cerrig  Haffes,  W.  Breconsh.,  v.c.  42,  July,  1908 
bent  to  Dr  Hermann  Dingier,  of  Aschaffenburg,  and  the 
name  agreed  to  by  him.  Flowers  are  sent  as  well  as  young 
fruiting  shoots,  that  the  petals  may  be  exhibited.  These 
are  usually  quite  eciliate,  but  in  rare  cases  a  few  ciliation- 
hairs  were  present. — A.  Ley.  Correct.  The  obovate 
eaflets  are  peculiar.  The  specimens  with  smooth 
peduncles  are  the  most  characteristic,  though  some 
weak  glandular  development  is  permissible,  as  in  the 
specimens  from  the  same  station  distributed  by  Mr 
Ley  through  the  B.E.C.  in  1906.— A.H.W.-D.  I  believe 
correct.  I  have  not  seen  Woods’  description  or  his 
ype  specimen,  but  Mr.  Ley’s  specimens  agree  well 
enough  with  Mr  Baker’s  diagnosis  in  the  Monograph. 
The  characters  there  given  for  the  variety  are,  taken 
individually ,  so  very  variable  that  it  is  not  easy  to  find 
specimens  agreeing  in  all  points.  You  find  fruit  smooth 
or  more  or  less  bristly  on  the  same  twig,  and  the  clothing 
ot  the  peduncles  is  nearly  as  variable.  Pendent  fruit  is 
not  at  all  confined  to  this  variety,  and  even  the  shape  of 
the  fruit  often  varies  to  some  extent  on  the  same  bush ; 
nor  is  it  always  safe  m  R.  mollis  to  take  for  granted  that 
the  ripe  fruit  will  keep  precisely  the  same  shape  which  it 
had  when  half-grown.  Mr.  Baker  says  nothing  of  sub- 
foliar  glands,  but  it  may  be  inferred  that  these  should  be 
few,  from  the  phrase  applied  to  the  leaves,  “  softer  and 
greyer  than  usual.”  Mr.  Ley’s  specimens  are  very  thinly 
glandular  on  midrib,  and  some  of  the  principal  veins, 
hough  the  glands  are  not  easily  seen.  No  objection, 
therefore,  can  be  made  on  this  account  to  his  naming  his 
plant  as  var.  ccerulea.  It  is  not  uncommon  to  find  plants 
which  agree  pretty  closely  with  Mr.  Baker’s  description  of 
is  variety,  except  that  the  leaves  are  densely  glandular 
on  the  under-surface.  As  to  Major  Wolley-Dod’s  remark 
on  the  shape  of  the  leaflets,  you  find  a  varying  number  of 
obovate  leaflets  on  most  variations  of  R.  mollis.  Usuallv 
these  are  obtuse  at  the  point,  but  sometimes  acute.  The 
occurrence  of  such  leaflets  will  occasionally  assist  in  dis¬ 
tinguishing  m  herbarium  specimens  R.  mollis  from  R. 
