REVISION OF SECTION TOMENTOSA OF THE GENUS ROSA. 35 
Belgique (1865), p. 30.— R. mollmima, 6, Lejeune, Comp. Fl. Belg. 
ii. p. 142. 
A lowly shrub, with a few equal, straight, compressed, and horizontal 
prickles rising from a basal disk; petioles pubescent, glandulose, 
prickly below or unarmed, each branch having the same characters • 
5-7 leaflets, the lateral with petioles, the terminal somewhat cordate 5 
leaflets elongated, oval-elliptic, rounded at the base, more or less At- 
tenuated at the summit, almost glabrous on both surfaces, and covered 
both above and beloiv icith numerous resinous glands, doubly dentate, 
with glandular serratures ; stipules glabrous above, glandulose below, 
the points a little divergent; peduncles solitary or 2-4, hispid glandu- 
lose, with very large bracts, glabrous above, glandulose below, equal to 
or a little shorter than the peduncles ; tube of calyx globular, glaucous 
green, hispid glandulose; segments terminating in a foliaceous appen- 
dage, more or less denticulate, 2 entire, 3 pinnatifid, glandulose below, 
equal to the corolla, erect after flowering ; style hairy ; disk very short ; 
the large corolla of a bright rose colour ; fruit globular, orange-red, 
crowned by the connivent persistent segments of the calyx. 
May. Hedges and thickets. Hedges at Thirsk, York (Baker). 
Belgium. 
3. R. cnspidata, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. i. p. 396.— iJ. Seringeana, 
Godr. Fl. Lorr. ed. ii. vol. ii. p. 255 . R. tomentosa, Woods, Linn. 
Trans, xii. p. 197 ;— Wirtgen, n. 34 4; Baker, Herb. Eos. Brit. n. 9. 
A lowly branching shrub, with strongish, whitish, scattered prickles, 
those on the stem dilated at the base, slightly curved at the apex, on 
the young branches rounded at the base and horizontal ; petioles hairy 
glandulose, prickly ; 5-7 leaflets, the laterals petiolate, the terminal 
rounded at the base, more or less elongated-acute at the summit; the 
leaflets rather large, oval-lanceolate , more or less obtuse and more or 
less attenuated at the apex, more or less pubescent below, whitish, soft, 
hairy, and scattered over with small glands beloic, doubly dentate with 
glandulose teeth ; stipules pubescent above, pubescent and glandulose 
below, the upper ones dilated, the points acute, divergent ; peduncles 
hispid, solitary or 3-10 in a corymb, with oval acuminate bracts at 
their base, which are pubescent, and the lower surface besides with 
scattered glands, equal to or surpassing the peduncles; tube of the 
calyx ovoid, hispid; segments of the calyx tomentose within, glandulose 
below, apical appendages 2 entire, 3 pinnatifid with linear lanceolate 
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