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Fries should be looked for in Britain, as there are specimens in Borrer’s 
and other herbaria gathered by Woods on the slope of Brean Down, in 
Somersetshire. From these specimens we take the following notes : — 
Prickles falcate, uniform. Leaves doubly serrated, rather hairy above, 
more so and densely glandular beneath, measuring about 3 inches from 
the base to the apex of the terminal leaflet, which is elliptical or obovate, 
narrowed to the base, and measures about 15 lines long by 9 broad. 
Petioles hairy and densely setose. Stipules and bracts glandular, and 
rather hairy on the back. Pedicel and gracefully ovate-urceolate 
calyx-tube quite naked. Sepals 8-9 lines long, naked on the back, 
with a long narrow point and two or three small linear gland-ciliated 
pinnae on each side. The leaves in texture, shape, and glandulosity 
resemble those of R. sepium, not R. canina. From R. sepiuni it dif- 
fers by its more robust habit, the larger size of all its parts, and the 
slight hairiness of its leaves, bracts, and stipules. The true R. sepiurn , 
so common in Central and Southern France, has not been found yet 
in Britain. The plant gathered by the Bev. W. T. Bree in Warwick- 
shire resembles it in habit and dimensions, but has the upper half of 
the leaf not narrowed, the leaves slightly hairy on both sides and less 
glandular than in the true plant, the petiole hairy and but slightly 
setose, the stipules hairy and less glandular on the back, broader fruit, 
and hairy styles. This and the true R. inodorci come very near to one 
another, and occupy a position about midway between R. canina and 
R. rubiginosa. It is probable, but not quite certain, that R. inodora 
is identical with R. Klutrii of Besser, Wimmer, Boreau, and Deseglise, 
— a plant ranging from the Avest of France to the borders of .Russia. 
R. Borreri of Woods (R. inodora of Hooker and Babington) differs 
from the true R. inodora of Fries by its much less glandular and more 
herbaceous leaves, which are rounded or even cordate at the base, 
slightly glandular petioles, bracts, and stipules, and more early-falling 
sepals. 
Rosa bibracteata, Bastard. We give a description of this as it 
occurs in Britain : — Stems suberect, the prickles uniform, falcate. 
Leaves deep shining green on the upper surface, paler or subglaucous 
beneath, slightly hairy on the midrib only, the serration erecto-patent, 
rather irregular but not truly double, the petiole slightly hairy and fur- 
nished with 3 or 4 robust aciculi, the leaf measuring 3-4 inches from the 
base of the stipule to the tip of the terminal leaf, which is about 1 1 
