BAKER ON BRITISH ROSES. 67 



petioles densely setose but not hairy, similar fruit, peduncles and sepals, 

 but only sliglitly hairy styles. 



R. sepiiun, TliuiUier, is a low shrub only three or four feet in height, 

 with long flexuose pendant or spreading branches. The prickles are 

 numerous and somewhat unequal, the large ones about three-eighths of 

 an inch long, not much hooked but the lower part robust. The leaves 

 measure about two inches from the base to the apex of the terminal leaflet, 

 which varies in shape from obova!;e-lanceolate narrowed at the base to 

 elliptical narrowed out at both ends, and is not more than three-quarters 

 of an inch long by three-eighths broad. The leaflets are bright green and 

 glabrous, though, sometimes a little glandular on the upper surface, 

 glabrous also but more or less thickly covered with viscid glands beneath, 

 the serratures fine and forward-pointing with fine gland-tipj)ed teeth, the 

 petioles densely setose but not pubescent and hardly at all aciculate. The 

 stipules and bracts are densely glandular on the back, but not hairy. 

 The peduncles and narrow ovate or elliptical-urceolate calyx tube are quite 

 naked. The sepals are about five-eighths of an inch long, naked on the 

 back, the limb lanceolate, some of them simple, some of them with two or 

 three toothed linear erecto-patent piimse on each side, and are all copiously 

 gland-ciliated. The petals are pinkish or nearly white, measuring about 

 five-eighths of an inch each way, so that the fully expanded corolla is about 

 an inch and a quarter across. The styles are glabrous or nearly so, the 

 fruit being gracefully oblong-urceolate in shape, measuring about three- 

 quarters of an inch long by three-eighths wide, with the sepals all fallen 

 by the time it changes colour. This is a plant of Belgium, France, and 

 other parts of Central and southern Europe. I have not seen specimens 

 of the Warwickshire plant which is figured under this name in " English 

 Botany," but it appears from the figure and description to come very near 

 to the above, and may not unlikely be identical with or near to the French 

 R. Lemanii, Boreau, which is stated to difier from sepium by its oval leaflets 

 which are slightly hairy beneath, hispid peduncles and oblong calyx tube, 

 which also is sometimes prickly at the base. 



