20 A LIST OF BRITISH ROSES 



R. Lemaitrei Rip. ex Desegl. Cat. R-ais. p. 182. This is a step 

 further from B. inconsincua in its quite glabrous styles. I have 

 seen no other examples than those mentioned in E. p. 48, which 

 agree better with Ripart's description than his own specimens 

 do. V.-c. 2. 



R. ASPERNATA D^segl. in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 170. The only 

 good examples I have seen of this come from S. Devon, though 

 one from Hereford {Ley) differs but little in its decidedly small leaf- 

 lets. Sudre places another S. Devon specimen of mine here, with 

 very weakly though not very thinly hispid peduiicles and fruit, 

 which latter is globose, and I have seen very similar plants from 

 Hereford {Ley) and W. Gloster {Boper, Wats. Exch. Club, 1910). 

 They seem to agree with the description of B.firma Pug., but that 

 name has not been confirmed, and they are best placed under an 

 aggregate B. inconspicua, not to the present species. V.-c. 3, 36. 



R. latebrosa Desegl. in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 171. A well- 

 marked species by the acicles on its flowering-branches. Besides 

 those mentioned in E. p. 54, an Oxfordshire specimen {Druce) 

 must be placed here. V.-c. Cornwall, Devon, 23. 



R. CANINA var. Schottiana Ser. ex DC. Prodr. ii. p. 613. This 

 name has been given by Sudre to a Cheshire specimen. The 

 variety seems to be distinguished from B. inconspicua chiefly by 

 the absence of prickles, but the continental interpretation of it 

 gives it strongly biserrate leaflets, ovoid fruit, and villous styles. 

 The specimen seen by Sudre agrees very well with these charac- 

 teristics, but two other Cheshire specimens, which differ only in 

 having a very few prickles and in rather less biserrate leaflets, and 

 are therefore nearer to the description, have been referred to 

 B. inconspicua by both Sudre and Dingier. V.-c. 58. 



[B. clisparilis Luc. & Ozan. in Bull. Soc. Dauph. p. 328. An 

 ambiguous species described as having either simply or doubly 

 serrate leaflets, almost straight prickles in a whorl, few and 

 deciduous glandular setae on the peduncles, and short hispid 

 styles. I have three specimens named by Sudre, viz. two from 

 Cheshire and one from S. Devon. Dingier has only seen one of 

 those from Cheshire, which he says definitely " cannot be B. clis- 

 parilis, but between B. agraria and B. verticillacantJia," an opinion 

 which I think might apply to all three.] 



SUBGROUP SCABRAT.E. 

 This is a small subgroup, though the attempts to name its 

 British representatives have not met with much success. Its 

 members may be regarded either as forms of the subgroup 

 Dumales, in which the primary -'■ leaf-nerves have subfoliar glands, 

 or as glabrous forms of the Borreri group. The former classifi- 

 cation is, I think, the best. Our species are probably reducible 

 to about three. 



* In my former papers I have designated these the " secondary " nerves, 

 following the continental practice. I mean the main nerves springing from 

 the midribs. 



