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acides on the flowering branches below the origin of the peduncles. 
latebrosa, Desegl., is said to have this characteristic, but differs in 
other important points, and several continental species are similar, 
but I cannot make them accord with the present one. The fact 
that only a small proportion of the fruit ever ripens, though of course 
no proof, favours the hybrid theory, and another, though even less 
important point, is the fact that the plant almost monopolizes about 
15 yards of hedge-row just as R. hibernica does in the Wirral 
Peninsula, but whether this is due to the effort to reproduce itself by 
root-runners, in defect of good fruit, or to the spinosissima influence 
in the hibernica hybrid, I cannot say. R. Robertsoni in Surrey 
behaves in the same way, but not other hybrids I have seen where 
there is no spinosissima, which is certainly absent from the present 
plant. Against the rubiginosa parentage is the fact that the glands 
on the leaves, though abundant enough, are very'firm and scentless, 
those of that specie being very conspicuous, an<^ turning darker on 
drying. The colour of the petals is very pale rose. — A. H. Wolley- 
Dod. “ The very regular hooked prickles and the rosy tint of the 
leaves point to micrantha as one parent, and Major Wolley-Dod’s 
suggestion of latebrosa as the other may well be correct.” — A. Ley. 
“I should guess^ R. canina, L., to be the other parent.” — E. S. 
Marshall. 
R. vinacea, Baker. Ref. No. 1441. Hedge at Cliffbank, 
Carden, Cheshire, 26th Aug. 1906. Nearest this I think, but rather 
larger in all its parts, and leaves more narrowed at base than usual. 
Baker describes the fruit as “ oblong,” but these are unusually so, 
and much narrowed at the base. The leaves are micro-glandular 
beneath, which is, I believe, usually the case in this species, but it is 
nowhere reddish. R. biserrata, Mdr., which this plant certainly 
approaches, is described as having a globose fruit, which character 
has, I think, been overlooked or ignored by British botanists. — A. 
H. Wo^ley-Dod. Baker’s own vinacea. No. 28 in the ‘ Herb. 
Rosarum,’ was a form of R. scabrata, Crep. See ‘ Journ. Bot.’ 181, 
1896. — G. C. Druce. 
R. canina, L., var. Kosinsciafia, Bess. Bull-in-the-Oak Lane, 
Leicestershire, v.-c. 55, 20th Sept. 1906. The fruit is globose; 
peduncles with stalked glands ; leaflets nearly orbicular. The Rev. 
Father Reader was with me when this was collected, and he sug- 
gested R. verticillaca 7 itha (Merat), or a form near it. “ Agrees more 
nearly, if not exactly, with var. Kosinsciana, Besser, which conies 
between andegavetisis and verticiiiaca?itha, and ought to have been 
in the list I think. I have British specimens.” — E. F. Linton. 
R. canina, L., var. Kosinsciana, Bess., has been reported from 
Derbyshire ; this would appear to be a new record for Leicestershire. 
— W. Bell. M. Crepin unhesitatingly rejected all the British 
