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certainly to occur in Sussex, Kent, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire, 
and possibly Northumberland. 
England, Scotland? Shrub. Summer. 
This plant forms one of the connecting links between R. 
micrantha and R. canina, differing from the former in its larger 
size, much fewer glands on the leaflets, larger stipules, fewer 
aciculi and gland-tipped setze on the pedicels, and more hairy 
styles. ‘The sepals are also more broadly triangular and with a 
shorter leaf-point. 
I suspect that this should stand as a sub-species of R. canina if 
the Canin Sub-rubginosz of Mr. Baker be rightly referred to that 
species. 
The Northumbrian plant gathered in a hedge at Spring Gardens, 
near Newcastle, by Mr. Robertson, “differs from Borreri in having 
a few setaceous aciculi and a few setze intermixed with its prickles, 
leaves more glandular beneath and the glands faintly odorous, the 
terminal leaflet being nearly as broad as long and much rounded at 
the base, by its deeper coloured flowers, more elongated calyx-tube 
and fruit, and more persistent sepals.”—(Baker, /. ¢. p. 64.) Mr. 
Baker thinks this may be the true R. inodora of Fries, of which he 
has not seen an authenticated specimen. 
Borrer’s Rose. 
Section IV.—CANIN A. 
Large bushes with arching or sub-erect main stems and rather 
slender branches. Shoots with the prickles scattered, uniform, not 
intermingled with aciculi or gland-tipped sete. Leaves glabrous 
or hairy, without glands or with a few on the under side. 
Pedicels on a corymbose cyme, usually naked. Styles not united. 
Fruit ovoid, with deciduous or sub-persistent sepals. 
SPECIES XIV.—ROSA CANINA. Zinn. 
Prates CCCCLXXII. CCCCLXXIII CCCCLXXIII.* CCCCLXXIV. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 93. 
Prickles scattered, large, curved or hooked, uniform, not 
intermingled with aciculi and gland-tipped setz. Leaflets ellip- 
tical or oval, doubly or simply serrate, varying from glabrous to 
sparingly hairy, sometimes with a few sticky not fragrant glands 
beneath. Pedicels short with oval bracts, usually naked. Styles 
glabrous or hairy. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, scarlet when ripe. 
Sepals deciduous or sub-persistent, leaf-pointed and usually more 
