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when green, ripening early in September. Sepals erect-spreading 
after the petals fall, and usually adhering till after the fruit 
changes colour. 
9. Rosa celerata. Baker. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 99. 
Stems arching; prickles stout, hooked. Leaflets broadly ovate, 
thin, firm, green and glabrous above, paler and hairy on the 
principal veins beneath, shallowly doubly serrate, the secondary 
serratures gland-tipped ; petioles shortly pubescent, with numerous 
short gland-tipped sete. Stipules and bracts glabrous, ciliated 
with gland-tipped sete. Pedicels naked, as long as the bracts. 
Styles hairy. Fruit subglobose, smooth, turning scarlet early in 
September. Sepals leaf-pointed and copiously pinnate, glabrous in 
the middle on the outside, and ciliated with gland-tipped sete, 
remaining until after the fruit changes colour. 
Thickets in Holywell Dean, Northumberland. 
10. Rosa coriifolia. ries. 
Puiate CCCCLXXITI.* 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 98. 
ki. bractescens, Woods, et Auct. Angl. 
Stems arching; prickles rather slender, very slightly curved. 
Leaflets roundish-ovate, thick, greyish green and hairy above, 
paler and softly pubescent beneath, shallowly serrated, without 
gland-tipped sete; petioles woolly, nearly destitute of gland-tipped 
setz, and with few prickles. Stipules and bracts densely pubescent 
beneath, with scarcely any gland-tipped setz on the margin. 
Pedicels naked, extremely short, much shorter than the bracts. 
Styles woolly. Sepals leaf-pointed, and copiously pinnate, naked 
on the outside but usually tomentose towards the edges, nearly 
destitute of gland-tipped setz at the edges. 
Ulverstone, Lancashire (Mr. Woods), and Castleton of Braemar 
(Mr. H. C. Watson), and a less hairy form is plentiful in hedges at 
Thirsk, North Yorkshire. 
A. specimen collected by Winch, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, has, 
according to Mr. Baker, the large bracts and short peduncles of 
* The plate is taken from a drawing made by Mrs. Baker from Mr. Watson’s 
specimens, which unfortunately perished in the disastrous fire which took place on 
Mr. Baker’s premises on 9th May, 1864. 
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