2 24 the botanical exchange club of the BRITISH ISLES. 
Kosinsciana^ including specimens so named by the Rev. E. F. Linton 
and J. G. Baker, and put them in his group verticillacantha. R. 
Kosinsciana, Besser, is, according to M. Crepin, a hybrid of R. gal/ica 
with R. Eglanteria or canbia. See ‘ Compte-rendu .... Bot. Belg.’ 
xxxiii., par. 2, p. 15. — G. C. Druce. 
R. canina, L., var. ? Ref. No. 1001. Elevenshillings, 
Knighton, Leicester, v.-c. 55, Aug. 1906. — W. Bell. Gathered at 
a stage when in the dried specimen it is difficult to say whether the 
sepals will be ascending or reflexed ; apparently the former. On 
other grounds this rose with its long peduncles and indefinite serration 
is not easy to place, in its young fruiting stage ; ripe fruit would 
materially assist. May be the same as No. 406, a form of an’atica ; 
and so I should call it if not subcristate. — E. F. Linton. Again 
M. Crepin rejected R. arvatica because it was a ‘ melange de plusieurs 
especes.’ Baker’s No. 27, ‘Herb. Ros.,’ belongs to the group R. 
Blondceana, Rip., and Baker even put some of the subcristate Roses 
to it. — G. C. Druce. 
R. Crepiniana, Dese'gl. Hedge near Chelsfield, W. Kent, 
i6th Sept. 1882. — J. Groves. This was commented on in Rep. 
190X, pp. 10, II. Desdglise (Cat. Raissonnd) describes R. Crepin- 
iana as having oval leaflets, ovoid fruit, blood-red, crowned by the 
persistent calyx.” Rouy and Foucaud describe it as having “ leaflets 
oval-acute, green with shallow teeth ; fruit ovoid, red.” R. glauca 
differs by having broadly oval leaves, glaucous, with veins a little 
reddish ; fruit large subglobose or spherical, orange or orange-red. 
'I'he above descriptions are the substance of a note sent me by 
Major Wolley-Dod ; he adds that whether siibcanina, Christ, is the 
same as CrcpmiaJia, is at present not made out, Deseglise’s name is 
the older of the two. — W. R. L. So named by Deseglise. See 
Report for 1901, p. 10, when the same plant was sent. — H. and J. 
Groves. 
R.fugax, Gren. Ref. No. 1439. Hedge at Cliff-bank, Carden, 
Cheshire, 26th Aug. 1906. Though this name may be unknown to 
the majority of British botanists, I am not introducing a new species 
to them, the name having already been applied by Deseglise to 
a plant collected by Webb on the banks of the Menai Straits, which 
he had labelled “ R. Reuteri [i.e. glauca] f. with setose peduncles,” 
and with which my plant agrees very closely except that in Webb’s 
plant the leaf-toothing is not quite identical. Both are certainly 
biserrate^ but whereas in Webb’s plant one small tooth alternates 
with one large one, in mine the toothing is really compound, each 
large tooth being again micro-toothed. The description of R. fugax 
makes the fruit as well as the peduncles setose, but they are not so 
in Webb’s specimens nor in other examples. Were it not for the 
