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green and more or less thickly coated with hairs above, paler more 
hairy and frequently glandular beneath. Pedicels rather short, 
with oval bracts, and with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Fruit 
ovoid, urceolate-ovoid or more rarely subglobose, glabrous or with 
gland-tipped aciculi, scarlet when ripe, which is in the middle or 
towards the end of autumn. Sepals sub-persistent, i.e. deciduous 
before the fruit is ripe, leaf-pointed, pinnatifid, with gland-tipped 
aciculi on the outside. 
In hedges, bushy places, and woods. Common, but not known 
to extend further North in Scotland than Aberdeenshire. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
I cannot bring myself to think that this is more than a sub- 
species of the preceding; the fruit ripening later and the sepals 
falling before winter being the only tangible points of difference 
between them; indeed R. mollissima (Fries), R. pomifera (Herm.), 
and R. tomentosa (Sm.), seem to be all sub-species of the Linnzean 
R. villosa. Generally speaking, R. tomentosa may be distinguished 
by its narrower and more pointed leaves, less rugose and less softly 
hairy than in R. mollissima, and also by the more elongate pedicels, 
longer calyx-tube and fruit, and more evidently pinnate segments. 
The flower varies in colour, as in the preceding species, from deep 
rose to white, and the fruit from smooth to slightly bristly. Mr. 
Baker does not consider that R. scabriuscula (Sm. Eng. Bot. 
No. 1896) and R. subglobosa (Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. III. p. 384) can 
be distinguished even as varieties. 
Downy-leaved Rose. 
French, Rosier cotonneux. German, Filzige Rose. 
Section IIJ.—RUBIGINOS &. 
Small or moderately large bushes, with sub-erect or arching 
stems. Shoots with the prickles scattered or somewhat crowded, 
uniform or slightly unequal, often intermixed with aciculi and a 
few gland-tipped sete, but not passing gradually into these. 
Leaves glabrous, or slightly hairy above, hairy and with numerous 
viscous often fragrant glands beneath. Pedicels in a corymbose 
cyme, commonly with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Styles 
not united. Fruit ovoid or roundish-pyriform, with sub-persistent 
or deciduous petals. 
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