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Shrub little elevated ; branches violet or of an ashy-green, prickly, 
dilated at the base, nearly straight, in pairs under the branches, those 
of the stem somewhat strong, of the branches feeble and slender; pe- 
tioles tomentose-glandulose, prickly below ; 5-7 nearly sessile leaflets, 
the terminal a little rounded at the base, oval-elliptic, slightly pubes- 
cent on both surfaces, doubly dentate with glandulose teeth ; stipules 
glabrous above, pubescent and with scattered glands below, fringed 
with glands, points short, divergent ; peduncles hispid, short, with 
oval acuminate bracts, glabrous above, pubescent below, fringed with 
glands, longer than the peduncles ; calyx-tube ovoid or subglobose, 
hispid ; calyx-segments hairy below, tomentose in the interior, oval, ter- 
minated by a foliaceous or slightly denticulate point, 2 entire, 3 pinna- 
tifid with short appendages, nearly equal to the corolla, reflexed at 
flowering, afterwards erect ; styles with hairy stigmas ; disk short ; 
flowers rose ; petals ciliated ; fruit large, globular, haiiy, brownish-red, 
crowned with the erect persistent calyx-segments, becoming fleshy at 
the base. 
This species differs from R. cuspidata in its leaves being free from 
glands on their under surface, and in its globular fruit crowned with the 
calyx-segments. It differs from R. tomentosa in the soft pubescence 
of both sides of the leaves, the ciliate petals, and the globular fruit. It 
differs from R. Sherardi in its oval-elliptic leaflets, and its brownish- 
red fruit crowned with the persistent calyx-segments; and from 
R. Andrzeiowskii, in its ciliate petals, its larger fruit of a different 
colour, and its oval elliptic leaflets. 
June. Woods and hedges. Banks of Loch Earn, Perthshire (Hail- 
stone). Middleton, Derbyshire (Purchass) ; Northumberland and 
Yorkshire (Baker). France. Switzerland. 
Var. /3. ccerulea, Woods, 1. c. p. 192 ;— Baker, Herb. Ros. Brit. n. 7. 
Differs from the type in the peduncles and calyx-tube being smooth, 
and the leaves scattered over with glands below. North Yorkshire, 
Cumberland, Northumberland (Baker). 
Var. 8. suberecta, Woods, 1. c. p. 192. R. mollis, /3. rewiosa, Lindl. 
Stipules very glandulose below ; petioles a little hairy, but covered 
with unequal prickles ; leaves a little hairy below, very glandulose ; 
calyx-tube very prickly ; bracts red (Baker in litt). 
exxvi. fol. 22) " of Rosa sylvestris, folio molliter hirsuto, fructu rotundo glabro, 
caljce et pedunculo hispidis," Ray, ed. iii. p. 478, belongs to this species, the 
other to i2. tomentosa, Desegl. (teste Mr. J. G\ Baker). 
