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6. Fruit subglobose ; receptacle frequently elliptical ; peduncles 

 sometimes extending beyond the bractca;, from one to eight 

 or nine in a cyme ; petals blush-coloured, white at the base ; 

 prickles falcate ; leaflets very soft, without glands, except on 

 the nerves and serratures. Near Newcastle, Mr. Robertson. 

 Tun bridge Wells, Pcnshurst, Stoke Newington, and Ulver- 

 stone. 



^. hybrida. The leaves of this plant are green, not white with 

 down, hairy underneath, and rough with glands; receptacle 

 as setose as the peduncle ; aculei falcate. Pointed out to me 

 by Mr. Sabine under the name of K. hybrida. I have ob- 

 served a similar Rose near Keswick, and also in the neigli- 

 bourhoood of Godstone in Surrey. Mr. Borrer has speci- 

 mens much resembling it from Scotland, in which the recep- 

 tacle is globose. 



»j. Receptacle large, olive-coloured, attenuated at the base, less 

 setose than the peduncles; peduncles one to four, furnished 

 ■with weak setae ; leaflets rough, with glands on the underside, 

 except those on the young shoots which are very soft and 

 downy; the aculei vary very much, some even on the strong 

 stems being quite straight, while in general, even on the young 

 branches, they are considerably curved ; whereas in this genus 

 the root-shoots have usually the prickles stronger and more 

 curved than the branches. This variety of R.tomentosa bears 

 a considerable degree of resemblance to two other very di- 

 stinct species, /». inicrantha and jK. Borreri, and at the san)e 

 time in general appearance is not very different from the 

 variety « ; I have only seen three plants ; two between Down 

 and Holwood in Kent in July 1815, both of which at first 

 eight I took for R.micrantha, until the thorns, which are never 



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