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of  R.jesinosa  Sternb.  (Deseglise,  “Essai  monog.  sur  les 
roses,  p.126)  which  name  he  afterwards  found  had  been 
misapplied  by  French  authors,  his  description  applying  to 
Crepm^s  spemes,  under  which  I  should  provisionally  llave 
-A.H.W.-D. 
R-  tomentosa  Sm.,  var. 
12  lkq08  R,T^arn  beil0W  Comrie’  Mid  Perth,  v.c.  88,  Sept. 
IZ,  1908.  The  sepals  were  mostly  fallen  at  this  date,  so 
that  it  can  hardly  enter  the  omissa  group.  The  prickles 
are  very  unequal  Leaflets  glabrous  above,  moderately 
hany  and  thickly  glandular  beneath,  on  the  whole  rather 
small  and  narrow.— W.  Barclay.  I  feel  very  doubtful 
between  the  omissa  and  the  tomentosa  groups.  There  is 
a  su  -group  of  the  latter,  which  forms  a  connecting  link 
between  the  two,  into  which  it  might  be  placed.  As  to 
the  persistence  of  the  sepals,  Mr.  Barclay  is  in  the  best 
position  to  express  an  opinion,  as  he  has  seen  the  growing 
plant,  but  out  of  39  fruits  on  the  whole  of  the  specimens 
attach^'  \T  balf’  bave  4  or  5  (mos%  5)  sepals  still 
attached,  while  18  have  3  or  less,  only  2  having  none. 
Ibis  does  not  appear  to  me  to  bar  the  omissa  group.  If 
i  belongs  to  that  group  it  comes  nearest  to  R.  resinosoides 
Crep.  though  very  different  from  Nos.  10  and  16,  but  on 
the  whole  I  think  it  is  nearer  R.  cuspidatoides  Crep.  in  the 
tomemtoM  group.  It  can  hardly  be  R.  seabriuscula  Sm.— 
R-  tomentosa  Sm.,  var. 
(No.  24).  On  bank 
i  j  •  i  ~ .  wn  DanK 
vc  sTsent’  “eiaQn«Carmi1!-  RaiIway  Station,  E.  Perthsh., 
and  ff9’  SpPf'  °’  1?°?'u  Thls  seems  to  be  a  tomentosa  form, 
f  s°  belongs  to  the  section  which  includes  seabriuscula 
bm.  and  cuspidatoides  Crep. ;  but  it  certainly  is  neither  of 
ese  two,  nor  do  I  think  it  corresponds  with  any  named 
variety  I  have  never  before  seen  one  like  it,  and  there 
was  only  one  bush  — W.  Barclay.  I  think  this  is  nearest 
f but  off  type  in  shape,  size  and 
and  wg  °f  <ff!ets;  U  1S  oertamly  a  good  tomentosa  form, 
should  fL?0t  *re  a yFe  °l  Smitb’s  species  so  indefinite,  I 
should  feel  inclined  to  refer  it  to  that.  Its  small  close-set 
leaflets  are  unusual. — A.H.W.-D. 
R.  glauca  Vill.,  of  group  suberistata  Baker.  (No.  19). 
Buckie  Braes,  Mid  Perth,  v.c.  88,  Aug.  14,  1908.  This 
orm  makes  an  approach  to  the  group  subcanina  Chr., 
