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John Comber (1869-1930). 
Unfortunately the sad news of the death of Mr. John 
Comber, August 21, 1930, did not reach us until after last 
year’s Report was published. He joined the Club in 1911, 
and continued each year until 1916 to contribute good parcels 
of plants, the average being 210 sheets. Latterly he lived at 
Guildford. He was a welhknown archaeologist. 
Notes on Last Report. 
P. 68. — Rosa canina var. latebrosa (Desegl.). In so weak a 
form as this it may quite easily happen that some branches 
show no acicles, and the deficiency may be greater in some 
years than others. It is a case where careful selection of 
specimens for distribution is necessary. — A. H. W.-D. 
R. dumetorum var. incerta (Desegl.). This was a very weak 
form and individual specimens showed no hispidity on the 
peduncles. Such specimens taken alone might easily be 
referred to var. semiglabra, and it would have been wiser to 
have eliminated them before the distribution. — A. H. W.-D. 
P. 69. — R. tomentella Lem. var. Borrerix. The collection 
was all a form of R. obtusifolia var. Borreri, not a hybrid. 
Whether individual sheets might have been labelled var. 
decipiens is mainly a question of the size of their leaflets. — 
A. H. W.-D. 
P. 70. — Rosa, . Bank of Tweed, near Ashiestiel, 
Selkirk, July 5, 1930. — R. J. Burdon. I sent this to Dr. 
Keller who says : “ Moi aussi je crois que cette forme est 
hybride de R. tomentosa Sm., peutetre avec une R. rubiginosa. 
11 faut connaitre les rosiers de la voisinage.” It is almost 
certainly a hybrid, and though it has little appearance of 
R. rubiginosa, its intense subfoliar glandular leaflets and their 
compound biserration lend colour to Keller’s suggestion. The 
evidence is hardly strong enough to establish this new hybrid 
as a certainty for Britain. — A. H. W.-D. 
P. 71. — R. micrantha Sm. var. hystrix Baker. Mr. Fraser is 
quite right. There is a little hispidity on the styles, which I 
had overlooked, so it is R. rubiginosa var. typica. The record 
for var. septicola must therefore be cancelled. That is a 
variety which bears considerable resemblance to a rubiginosa 
