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“ Eeview ” or “ Monograph ” was published, labelled B. coriitoHa . 
— W. H. PuKCHAS. The Ape’s Tor plant, sent hy Mr. Purchas, is 
certahily B.. conifolia rather than Watsoni, for the leaflets are 
simply serrated. It appears to be just the same as Mr. Bagnall’s 
Waiwickshire coriifoUa. — T. E. A. B. 
Bosa maryinata, Walh*. Meadows near Solihull, Warwick shme, 
(v.-c. 38.) July and September, 1876. Three bushes of this 
variety of Bosa canina occur in the hedges here. This was sent to 
Mr. J. G. Baker for confirmation, and he states that the plant is 
rightly named. It also occurs hi a lane near to the above station 
called Shelly Lane. It seems a fairly marked form of the sub- 
rubiyinoscB group. — James Bagnall. 
B. viryinea, Eip., in Des^lise (not Extr. de I’Enum. des 
Eosiers, Joimi. Bot., June, 1874, p. 167); Cat. Eais, no. 28, p. 67. 
Wood near Horsebridge, South Hants. August, 1876. This is a 
very large bush (about 15 ft. high), with the exception of one stem 
quite destitute of ]irickles. The name has been confirmed by M. 
Beseglise. — H. Groves. Except in having hairy styles, a Eose I 
collected at Gawton, Beer Ferris, S. Devon, Seiitember 13, 1875, 
agrees admirably with the above. Before I saw Mr. Groves’s 
specimens I was at a loss what to name it, but suspected an 
aj)proach to B. systyla, a view confirmed by M. Deseglise’s arrange- 
ment, in which viryinea appears among the stylosce, immediately 
before leucochroa. — T. E. A. B. 
“ Cratayus oxyacanthoicles, Thuill.” Cressbrook Dale, Derby- 
slime, June, 1876. Wardlow Hay Cop, Derbyshire, July 12, 1876. 
Taxal, Cheshire, August 1, 1876. An extremely rare species in the 
Noidli of England ; it is therefore the more noteworthy to report 
it from three new stations. The station where the species appears 
to be least likely to have been planted is that on the eastern side of 
the Wardlow Hay Cop. The Cressbrook Dale Station is a mile 
west of this station on the opposite side of the same hiU ; but as 
there is but a single plant of it in a hedge it may have been 
planted. The plants from these two stations are clearly the 
plant of ‘ English Botany,’ ed. iii. The Taxal station, an old lawn, 
is not likely to be an original station ; and the plant, besides, does 
not appear to be the true oxyacantJwides, as there is a tendency 
towards an inward curvature of the veuis. There is an Austrian 
species, C. intermedia, Schur., to which it may possibly be referred. 
— Charles Bailey. The Taxal plant I should call true oxyacan- 
thoides. It has two styles. C. intermedia, Schur., has only one, 
and is described as “media tenent inter C. v.ryacanthoidem et 
C. monoyynam." — J. T. Boswuill. 
Fyrus communis, Linn., probably var. Briyysii. P. cordata, 
Desv. ? vide Journ. Bot., 1876, pp. 225 and 297. Hedge between 
Seaton and Looe, East Cornwall, August, 1876. — T. E. A. Briggs. 
Probably Mr. Briggs is right in supposing this to be var. Briyysii. 
Whether Briyysii be identical with P. cordata, Desv., I am unable 
to say, as I possess no specimens of the latter, except the one in 
Billot’s ‘Exsicc.,’ 2458, which Dr. Masters says is different from 
the true plant of Desvausx, &c. Judging by the descriptions of 
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