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MR. J. G. baker's MOXOGRAPH OY BRITISH ROSES. 217 



under tliat name, but is simply a form with white flowers tipped 

 with crimson, and leaves quite as hairy but rather more glan- 

 dular beneath than usual. The principal varieties in Britain are 

 the following : 



Var. SUBGLOBOSA {Smith), 



R. SUBGLOBOSA, Smith, Eng. FL ii. p. 384 ; Boreau, FL Cent. edit. 3, 

 no. 882; D^eq. Mon. p. 99, Exsic. 37', Reut. Cat, p. 67^ 



R. Sherardi, Davies in E. FL iv. p. 269 ; DesSg, Toment. p. 33. 



R. SYLVESTRis, foUo molUter hirsute, fructu rotundo glabro, calyce 

 et pedunculo hispido, Dillen,, Ray, Synop, edit. 3, p. 4/8 (1/24). 



R. TOMENTOSA 6, Woods^ Linn. Trans, xii. p. 201, Herb. 43. 



Fruit quite globose ; the leaves softly grey-downy on both 

 sides, scarcely at all glandular on the petiole or under surface, 

 the serratures often not so compound as in the type ; the flowers 

 3n some of the specimens 7-8 in a cluster, and the prickles 

 stouter and a little curved. 



Sherard's plant, on which it was founded, was gathered by the 

 Thames-side near Kingston ; and I have seen this variety also 

 from the Isle of Wight, Cambridereshire, Devonshire, Anglesea, 

 Yorkshire, and Northumberland. 



P- *>0 (H, velutina^ Chabert) agrees with it in everything ei- 

 <^pt that the serratures of the leaves are quite simple. 



Var. FARiNosA {Ran). 



R. FARINOSA, Rau, Enum. p. 147; Bechst. Forstb. p. 243; Tratt. 

 Mon. p. 103; Redoute, 4to edit. t. 52; Deseg. Toment. p. 1?. 



A small weak variety, with leaves densely grey-downy when 

 young ; petioles slightly glandular ; serrations open and copiously 

 compound ; fruit obovoid, both it and the short peduncle quite 

 destitute of aciculi and glandular setaj, and main sepals only 

 ^ery slightly compound. 



I have Deseglise's authority for referring to Eau's plant one 

 gathered by Mr. Hailstone in Perthshire, near Blair Athol ; and 

 that from Eedcar, North Yorkshire, gathered by him, and called 

 l>y Smith, in the 'English Flora,' villosa, var. pulchella, is very 

 nearly the same. This variety and the last are the forms o^ to- 

 menfosa most likelv to be confounded with mollis^ima. 



Var. sCABRiuscuLA (Smith). , 



R. SCABRIUSCULA, Smith, Eng. Bot. t. \S%; fVinch, Geog. Dist. 

 edit. 2, p. 45 {ex parte); Deseglise, Toment. 32, non Woods. 



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