240 MR. J. G. baker's monograph of BRITISH ROSES. 



Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and 

 Devonshire. On the Continent I have seen specimens of the 

 species only from France and Switzerland; but it is said also to 

 inhabit Belgium and Styria. 



Var. Desvauxii, Baker. 



R. STYLOS A, Desv. Jourru Bot, (1810), p. 316; Deseg, Man, p. 26, 

 Herb. Ros. 40; Billot, Exsic, 1483! Gren. Jura, p. 240 j Dumort. 

 Belg, p. 64. 



Column of styles protruded as in the last, from which it only 

 differs by its pure-white flowers, leaves thinly hairy all over be- 

 neath, and more hairy petioles. 



A plant coinciding with the specimens in Deseglise's fasci- 

 culus gathered by Mr. Borrer at Hartwell, in Sussex. 



Var. OPACA, Baker. 



grey 



tlian in the last, qui^ three-quarters as broad as long, and 



rounded at the base. The peduncle shorter and quite naked 

 tlie flower pure white, and not much over an inch across, scarcely 

 more than the head of stigmas protruded. 



Kent, between Chilgrove and Brooms {Eev. G. E. Smithl)- 

 Differs mainly from specimens of R. fastigiata, Bast. Supph 

 ri. Maine-et-Loire, p. 30, received from Deseglise, by its pure- 

 white flowers. 



Var. GALLicoiDES, Baker, 



General habit and leaves in shape like those of systyla^ but the 

 prickles of the branches copiously intermixed with aciculi and 

 glandular setae ; the leaves only very faintly hairy beneath and 

 on the petiole, but the latter copiously glanduloso-setose, and a few 

 glands extending to the midrib ; the central serratures with one or 

 two accessory gland-tipped teeth. The peduncles densely clothed 

 with fine subequal glandular setge, which extend more or less to 

 the calyx-tube, sometimes covering it all over, the latter narrower 



and longer than in the type. The sepals glandular on the back, 



and densely gland-ciliated ; the column of styles equalling the 

 stamens ; the corolla pure white ; the fruit obovoid, naked, -| inch 

 long by "I inch broad. 



AVarwickshire, Chesterton Wood, near Myton (if. Broin- 

 wicJi I). A very remarkable variety ; and I have nothing from the 

 Continent resembling it. In armature it recalls the GalUcan(e^ 



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