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on the under surface of the leaves, and certainly Smith would not have 
failed to notice this character in the diagnosis of his species, if his typical 
plant had shown it. No. 6 belongs to the Rubiginosa. No. 1 being 
* pasted down, it cannot be determined whether the leaves are glandulose 
beneath or not. No. 7 cannot be referred to R. tomentosa. The types 
in Smith's Herbarium being thus uncertain, the wiser plan will be to 
analyse the published descriptions ; and this is the method we shall 
pursue in endeavouring to clear away the confusion which exists under 
the name of R. tomentosa. 
Smith, Flora Brit. (1800) vol. ii. p. 539, says, " Foliola elliptico- 
ovata, utrinque mollissime tomentosa," and again in the Comp. Fl. 
Brit. (1816) p. 78, "Fructibus ovatis pedunculisque hispidis, aculeis 
caulinis aduncis, foliolis ovatis utrinque tomentosis." (All, or nearly 
all the Floras of France and Germany, describe Smith's plant as with- 
out glands on the under surface of the leaf.) Smith, in establishing his 
R. tomentosa, says, " Preccdente {R. villosa, L., which also has leaves 
without glands), omnibus partibus minor est, et habit n cum R. comma 
convenit, nisi quod folia undique pubescunt, et subcinerea videntur." 
De Cand. Fl. Fr. vol. iii. p. 440 (1805), says, " Leaves covered 
with soft hairs, numerous and adpressed," and cites as a synonym 
Bauhin, Hist. PI. vol. ii. p. 44, f. 2 ? The doubt is well founded, 
since Bauhin figures a plant with glabrous peduncles, calyx-tube, and 
calyx-segments. 
Gmelin, Fl. Badensi-Alsatica (1806), vol. iv. p. 368, says, " Folioia 
septem, quinque subsessilia, ovalia, argute duplicato-serrata, utrinque 
pallide viridia, tomentoso-sericea," citing Eng. Bot. t. 990. This 
figure is very bad, as it only shows the upper part of a flowerin 
branch, and the upper surface of the leaves, making them moreover 
simply dentate, whilst they are doubly dentate. 
Lejeune, Fl. de Spa (1811), vol. i. p. 230, says, " Leaves cottony on 
both surfaces." 
Merat, Fl. des Environs de Paris (1812), p. 190; Bastard, Fl. de 
Maine et Loire (1809-12), say, " Leaves tomentose." 
Woods, 'British Species of Rosa ' (1816), p. 197, says of his R. to- 
mentosa, "Foliola . . . utrinque tomentosa, duplicato-serrata, subtus 
nunctota superficie, nunc niargine, venisve tantura glandulosa." Woods 
must have had several different forms before him in describing his 
type; this is confirmed by consulting the herbarium prepared by him 
or 
