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REVIEW OF THE BRITISH ROSES, 

 ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, 



By J. G. Baker, Esq., of Thirsk. 



Part II.-VILLOS.E. 



Strong bushes with suherect, or somewhat arching stems. Prickles 

 uniform, slender, straight or nearly curved, narrowed suddenly from 

 above the base to a compressed needle. Leaves doubly serrated, more or 

 less hairy all over above, conspicuously hairy and usually more or less 

 furnished with reddish resinous glands beneath. Peduncles aciculate and 

 setose, or very rarely naked. Sepals setose on the back, spreading or 

 connivent, never reflexed upon the fruit, truly persistent or sub-persistent. 

 Styles free, villose. 



IV.— R. MOLLissmA. Willd. Fries. A tufted shrub, with suberect 

 not arching stems six or seven feet high and stiff spreading branches, 

 which are deep vinous-glaucous in exposure, and with soft grey unfolded 

 upper leaves. Prickles of the well-matured stem uniform or nearly so, 

 the base about a quarter of an inch deep, the lower part slender, the 

 prickle from three-eighths to half an inch long, narrowing gradually to a 

 long needle-like point, the upper line scarcely at all curved, but often 

 declining considerably from a right angle with the axis. Well developed 

 leaves of the shoots of the year from four and a half to five inches from 

 the base to the apex of the terminal leaflet, which is broadly ovate, 

 rounded or even cordate at the base, and measures from an inch and a half 

 to one and three quarters long by fully an inch broad. Leaflets rugose 

 and strongly veined, generally softer and greyer than in any of the other 

 species, glaucous-green, and covered with a thick coating of soft white hairs 

 on the upper surface, paler and still more hairy beneath, usually furnished 

 with a few reddish-brown glands on the under side, the serratures open 

 and furnished with two or three fine gland-tipped teeth, the petioles villose 

 and setose, and furnished with two or three needle-like aciculi. Stipules 

 and bracts hairy and more or less glandular on the back, copiously setoso- 

 ciliated, the former with ovate-lanceolate spreading auricles. Peduncles 

 usually so short that they are hidden by the stipules and bracts. Calyx 

 No, 3, June 1. D 



