208 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Section II.—VILLOSZ. 
Large bushes with sub-erect or somewhat arching stems; shoots 
with the prickles scattered, uniform; gland-tipped sete often few. 
Leaves more or less hairy above, conspicuously so, and usually with 
reddish resinous glands beneath. Peduncles in a corymbose cyme, 
commonly with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Styles not united. 
Fruit mostly globose, with truly persistent or sub-persistent 
sepals. 
SPECIES VI-ROSA MOLLISSIMA. Fries. 
Pirate CCCCLXVI. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 33. 
R. villosa, Auct. Angl. 
R. mollis, Sm, Eng. Bot. No. 2459. 
Prickles uniform, nearly straight, spreading or declining. 
Leaflets broadly ovate, doubly serrate, rugose, greyish-green and 
with a thick coating of soft white hairs above, paler more hairy 
and with a few glands beneath. Pedicels very short, with oval 
bracts, and with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Fruit often 
nodding, sub-globose, rarely ovoid, glabrous or with gland-tipped 
aciculi, scarlet when ripe, which is in the end of summer or 
early autumn. Sepals truly persistent, leaf-pointed, entire or 
slightly pinnatifid, with gland-tipped aciculi on the outside. 
In hedges, bushy places, and woods. Common, especially in 
the North, though extending in range from the Isle of Wight 
to Orkney. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A shrub 3 to 8 feet high, with rather large prickles, and soft 
greyish very downy leaflets, the secondary serratures gland- 
tipped. Flowers 13 to 2 inches across, varying from deep rose- 
colour to white. Fruit 3 to ? inch in diameter, ripening nearly a 
month earlier than that of the other British species. 
Soft-leaved Rose. 
French, Rosier velu. German, Weichblitterige Rose. 
SPECIES VIL—ROSA TOMENTOSA. Smith. 
“ Prats CCCCLXVII. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 36. 
Prickles uniform, straight or curved, spreading or declining. 
Leaflets ovate or elliptical, doubly serrate, slightly rugose, greyish- 
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