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to R. tomentosa, not R. canina, the form characterized by the com- 
bination of simply toothed leaves, with a glabrous peduncle and calyx. 
It touches close upon R. farinosa, Rau, and R. cinerascens, Dum. ; 
but I do not know that it has been specially named.” — J. G. Baker. 
Rosa micrantlia, Sm., var. Briygsii , Baker. “ Collected from the 
plant so named by Mr. Baker in his recent ‘ Monograph of the 
British Roses.’ Specimens from Fancy, of another naked-peduncled 
form of R. micrantlia , with very small fruit, are sent, that they may 
be compared with the other.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. 
R. verticillacantha , Merat. “ From Harestone, Brixton, showing 
a peculiar armature on the branches. The form from Warleigh is 
remarkable for having prickly fruit.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. 
R. arvensis , Liun. var. bibracteata, Bast. “ This occurs in many 
spots near Plymouth.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. 
R. arvensis, Huds. var. Chesterton Wood, Warwick ; H. Bromwich. 
“A very curious form, bearing the same relation to the type that my 
var. gallicoides, from the same station, bears to typical R. stylosa. It is 
not named in Continental books, so far as I know.” — J. G. Baker. 
Ryrus communis, Linn. “ Hedge, between Thornbury and Common 
Wood, Devon.” — T. R. Archer Bbiggs. A well-marked form 
which I cannot identify with any of those described by French writers. 
The branches are apparently not spinous, the leaves small, about an 
inch long, oval, acuminate, rounded at the base, finely crenate-serrate, 
very slightly pubescent beneath and on the margins when young, 
glabrous when mature. Flowers small, about f- inch across, in a 
cyme, of which the rachis is often so elongated that it becomes some- 
what racemose. Calyx densely and finely woolly; styles a little 
shorter than the stamens. Fruit | to { inch long, roundish, turbi- 
nate abruptly narrowed into the long pedicel. I propose the name of 
Briggsii for this form in the event of its being destitute of a name. 
P. scandica, Bab., var . fennica. “ Glen Eisna Vearrach, Arran ; and 
P. scandica, var. pinnatijida. Side of rocky stream, Glen Catocal, 
Arran.”— J. F. Duthie. Mr. Duthie has settled the point of there 
being two forms of P. scandica in Arran, one of which has the leaves 
with none of the segments separated, the other, with some of the leaves 
at least pinnate towards the base. All the specimens which he found 
in one glen belonged to the former, and all those in an adjacent glen 
to the other. lie had an opportunity of tasting the fruit of both, and 
