MR. J. G. baker's MOyOORAPH OF EBITTSH ROSES. 203 



with 9 to 11 leaflets. The principal European varieties are: — B. 



Reich, n. Escurs. ii. p. 612) 



(B 



more decidedly glandular petioles and stipules, and peduncles 

 usually but not always aciculate; R. consimilis, Deseg. Mon. 

 p. 50, Exsic. 9, with glabrous styles, unarmed and glandular pe- 

 tioles, and simply toothed leaflets slightly hairy on the midrib 

 beneath ; _5. sprefa, Desegl. Mon. p. 50, Exsic. 8, with less nu- 

 merous prickles, thinly hairy styles, and unarmed petioles \ and 

 R, myriacanthu, DC. FL Er. iv, p. 439, Lindl Mon. p. 55, t. 10, 

 a stunted, compact, erect plant with very long and very dense 

 prickles, doubly toothed leaflets densely glandular all over be- 

 neath, deep-red flowers, peduncle and usually the calyx-tube 

 densely aciculate and setose, and simple sepals densely glandular 

 on the back. Other varieties are the Siberian B, altaica^ Willd. 

 Hort. Ber. p. 543 {B. grandijlom, Lindl, Mon. p. 53), and the 

 Himalavan B. unauicularis. Bert. Misc. No. 22, tab. 3, n. 15. 



2. R. RUBELLA, Smith, Frutex erectus, ramis brevlbus compactis, acu- 

 leis confertis subulatis gracilibus ad aciculos copiosos sensim trans- 

 euniibus, foliolis parvis obtusis firmis simphciter vel pauUulum dupli- 

 cato-serratis utrinque omnino ghibris, floribus plerisque solitariis, se- 

 palis dorso tenuiter glandulosis simplicibus persisteutibus, fructihus 

 rubris ovato-rotundatis vel ovato-urceolatis subnudis plerisque cernuis, 

 disco nullo. 



R. RUBELLA, Smith, Eng. Bot. t. 2521, Eng. Flora, ii. p. 374 ; Hoods, 

 Linn, Trans, xii. p. 177, Herb. 2-4; Godet, Flore du Jura, p. 205 ; 

 Grenier, Ft. Jura, p. 227. 



R. GENTiLis, Stern. Bot. Zeit. 1826, BeibL 79 ; Koch, Syti. 2nd edit. 



p. 247. 



+ 



R. PiMPiNELUFOLio-ALPiNA, jRapin, Reut. Cat. Gen, p. 64. 



A bush with just the general habit of spinosissima^ but the 

 prickles more slender and fewer in proportion to the small seta- 



aciculi, the branches sometimes denuded. Stipules rather 

 broader, with lanceolate gland-ciliated auricles. Full-grown 

 leaves 1| to 2 inches long, with 7-9 leaflets, which are just like 

 those oi spinosissima in texixxTe^hni more oblong and more sharplj 

 toothed; the terminal leaflets 8-9 lines long by three-quarters as 

 broad ; the serrations simple or slightly compound ; both sides 

 quite free from pubescence, but the petiole glanduloso-setose,and 

 the glands extending more or less to the midrib beneath. Flowers 

 usually solitary, but occasionally in twos ; the peduncle 6-12 lines 



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