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R. rubiginosa, Linn. Foot of the Eildon Hills, 13th July, 1894, 
and near Lindean, 14th July, 1894 ; both localities in the neighbour- 
hood of Melrose, North Roxburgh. Apparently wild, but the 
sweetbriar is largely planted in the district, and the bushes from which 
these specimens were taken may have been self-sown or bird-sown 
plants. — Charles Bailey. Prof. Crepin makes no comment. 
i?, micrantha, Smith ; W. M. Rogers. Lane on left of the road 
from Ruthin through Llanfwrog to Rhewl, Denbighshire, 30th 
September, 1895. Not recorded in ‘Topographical Botany’ for County 
50. — Charles Bailey. “ R. vdcraniha^ Sm. var.” — Prof. Crepin. 
R. glauca, Vill., var. Lintoni, Scheutz ; E. F. Linton. Banks of 
the Tweed, near Melrose, north Roxburghshire, 12th July, 1894. — 
Charles Bailey, “i?. coriifolia^ Fries ! var. Lintoni, Scheutz. C’est 
par une simple inadvertance que M. Bailey a mis ‘glauoa’ pour 
^ eoriifoliai — Prof. F. Crepin. “Mr. Bailey has doubtless simply 
followed the ‘ Catalogue,’ which ignores the primary sub-division into 
glmica and sub-sp. coriifolia ; as a consequence, varieties of the latter 
get quoted as varieties of the former.” — W. H. B. 
R. sepium, Thuill., var. Near Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire. — 
W. H. Painter. “7?. toinentosa, Sm., var.” — Prof. Crepin. 
R. stylosa, Desr., var. pseudo-rusticana, Crepin. Chetnole, Dorset, 
22nd June, 1895. I send specimens of this well-marked rose from one 
of two new Dorset localities in which I have seen it in fair quantity in 
recent years, the other being the borders of Piddle Wood, near Stur- 
minster Newton. I think it extremely probable that the form has been 
produced by hybridisation between R. systyla, Bast, and R. arvensis, 
Huds., though now in some districts (as in the Teign Valley, S. Devon) 
it is so abundant as to seem to propagate itself by seed. In the 
hundreds of luxuriant and abundantly flowering bushes that I have 
seen I can recall only a single flower that was not pure white, and that 
might merely have developed a pinkish tinge when fading. The flowers 
of R. systyla are usually pink, though occasionally of as pure a white 
as those of R. arvensis. In habit R. pseudo-rtisticana is just inter- 
mediate between these two. — W. Moyle Rogers. 
Ribes rubru 77 i, L., var. sylvesire (Reichb.)? Hedge-row, Shire- 
newton, Monmouthshire, 20th May, 1895. This is far from 
uncommon in the woods here, especially on limestone, both in West 
Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, and appears to be decidedly 
native. In the woods it flowers and fruits rather sparingly. The 
hedgerow from whence most of these specimens were gathered is close 
to an aboriginal wood — on the sandstone — and probably somewhat 
recently formed the border of it. — AV. A. Shoolbred. “ I suppose 
correct, though the racemes look as though they w^ere sub-erect in 
flower.” — Ar. Bennett. 
