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Rosa tomentosa x iomeniella ? Hedges near Bickerton Lane, 
Cheshire, 27th July 1902. This appears to be the same hybrid as I 
sent to the Club last year (‘Report,’ 1901, p. 10), though from a 
different locality. It formed a tall, straggling bush about nine feet 
high. The flowers are very pale rose and the styles very woolly. 
The general aspect of the bush recalled tomentella, and I think Mr. 
Marshall’s suggestion that this is one of the parents is probably 
correct. — A. H. Wolley-Dod. 
R. systyla, sp. coll. Near Lavington Church, West Sussex, 13th July 
1902. I send four forms which might, probably, have all been more 
correctly labelled R. systyla, but as I cannot see characters restricting 
them to that segregate, I prefer to leave them under the aggregate 
species of the ‘ London Catalogue.’ Form i may represent normal 
R. systyla, Bast. Form 2 differs essentially in its glabrous peduncles, 
and, in most of the specimens, in short styles and rather small, some- 
what roundish fruit. Form 3 has small, very round fruit, and in this 
respect resembles interim states of Form 2, but the style column is 
always conspicuously protruded, and the peduncles, though less 
strongly setose than usual, are decidedly so. Form 4 generally 
resembles normal R. systyla, Bast., but has sessile styles. It has 
very pale rose flowers. I am sorry that I had no opportunity of 
noting the colour of the flower in the other three forms, and that I 
could not make an exactly equal number of all four forms so that one 
of each could be distributed together. — A. H. Wolley-Dod. 
R. pomifera, Herm. For several years I have known of the 
existence of one bush of this rose in a hedge-row near Tidenham 
Chase, and on one occasion sent specimens to the Club, but have 
never been able to get it satisfactorily named. This year, while out 
with me, Mr. Marshall discovered another bush at the border of the 
wildest part of the common, and specimens shown by him to the Rev. 
W. M. Rogers were by him named as above. — W. A. Shoolbred. 
Pyrus inter 77 iedia, Ehrh. Rocks in Cheddar Gorge, North Somerset, 
30th July 1902. This addition to the Somerset county flora is due to 
the keen eye of Rev. Augustin Ley, who detected one or two small 
bushes without fruit in the autumn of 1901. Other trees, yielding 
these specimens, were found this summer. The Pyrus forms of this 
group are terribly puzzling plants, as must be realised on comparing 
this intermedia with the true scandica, Asch., distributed by Mr. Ley 
from Brecon and Denbigh. — Jas. W. White. 
P. latifolia, Syme. Limestone rocks in Leigh Wood, North 
Somerset, 7th June 1902. Only one tree of this was known in the 
vice-county until Rev. A. Ley in 1901 informed me that he had seen 
two or three small bushes in another part of the wood. After renewed 
search I came upon the fine tree— thirty feet— from which these 
specimens were taken. I have given them Syme’s name as being 
one more likely to stand than that of ‘Lond. Cat.’ — Jas. W. White. 
