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specimens to send. — McTaggart Cowan, jun. In his exhaustive 
monograph of the northern species of Alchemilla (Helsingfors, 
1909), Lindberg fil. has pointed out on p. 12 that under the name of 
A. vulgaris, Linnaeus combined A. a/pesirts, Schmidt, of south and 
central Sweden with A. acuiidens, Buser, of Lapland, and asserts 
(p. ii) that Linnaeus quite certainly never saw A. minor, Huds., 
nor A. pratensis, Schmidt, in Sweden ; therefore he discards the 
name A. vulgaris altogether, in a definite specific sense. Mr. 
Cowan’s specimen is not, I think, good A. alpestris ; the flowers 
and upper part of the stems are glabrous, but the petioles and lower 
part of the stems have a good deal of appressed pubescence, and 
the young leaves, especially at their margins, are more or less silky- 
haired. It seems at least as near to A. pratensis ; but I cannot 
venture to name it positively. — Edward S. Marshall. The dis- 
carding of Linnaean names for the reason above given is, as a rule, 
a very questionable procedure. — C. E. Moss. 
Rosa arvensis, Huds., var. Geddington Chase, Northants, 
August I, 1910. “Not a named variety, though the densely finely 
pubescent petioles are unusual ” : Major Wolley-Dod. — Augustin 
Ley. Towards var. major, Coste, otherwise I see no reason for 
labelling this “ var.” — A. H. Wolley-Dod. Yes. — W. Barclay. 
Rosa stylosa, var. evanida, Christ. Ham Common, Surrey, 
August 19, 1910. These specimens were gathered from several 
different bushes which I discovered this year on Ham Common. 
It is undoubtedly Christ’s variety, though very unlike any other 
stylosa form known to me, except R, leucochroa of British authors. 
The bushes were all small and weak, which appear to be character- 
istic of the variety. — A. H. Wolley-Dod. A very curious form 
which I have not seen before. — W. Barclay. 
Rosa \systyla, Bast.]. Woods, Dineham, Monmouth, June 23, 
1910. “Yes.” — A. H. Wolley-Dod. A form of R. systyla. Bast., 
differing from type in less strong based prickles, leaflets fully hairy 
beneath, and at times slightly so above : leaves shorter, less open. 
Sepals (as well as peduncles and calyx tube) glandular on the back : 
petals pink. — Augustin Ley. Correct ; with leaflets more hairy 
than usual. — A. H. Wolley-Dod. Untypical; the leaflets being 
more or less hairy beneath, some of them thinly so over the whole 
surface. Prickles weak on the flowering-branch ; no barren stem 
seen. I believe, however, that it is a systyla form. — Edward S. 
Marshall. Mr. Ley informs me that R. stylosa is a mistake, and 
that he sends both as forms of R. systyla, Bast., which doubtless 
they are. — W. Barclay. 
R. stylosa, Dcsv. [systyla. Bast.]. Wood, Killpale, near Llanfair 
