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R. tomentosa, Sra, Downy-leaved Rose. — e.b, 990, 1896. 

 L.c. 347. 



Root-shoots erect or beuding. Prickles nearly uniform, straight 

 or curved. Leaves on short, bristly, glandular petioles; stipules 

 pointed, spreading, glandular ; leaflets about 5, ovate, singly or 

 doubly serrated, downy on both sides. Divisions of the calyx pin- 

 natifidj segments elliptical-lanceolate, serrated. Fruit hispid, 

 crowned with the spreading divisions of the calyx. 



Hedges. Shrub. June, July. 



A var. of R. villosa ? The leaves of both are doubly serrated, 

 but in the latter they are more pubescent, or rather shaggy about 

 the midrib. The sepals are simpler in the former than in the 

 latter; in both they are gland uliferous. The petals are rather 

 larger in R. tomentosa, and white; in R. villosa they are deep 

 rosy-red. These are both common forms in Scotland, but espe- 

 cially the first described. 



R. hibernica, Sm. Irish Rose. — e.b. 2196. l.c. 342. 



Stem erect, bushy ; prickles not numerous, unequal, slightly 

 hooked ; young shoots hairy, sometimes prickly, not glandular. 

 Stipules broad, slightly serrated, glandulose. Leaflets roundish- 

 ovate, simply serrated with deeply-cut, sharp teeth, slightly hairy 

 below. Tube of calyx round ; divisions about as long as the petals, 

 acuminate, pinnatifid, with spreading, linear, slightly glandular 

 segments. Styles distinct. Fruit 7'oundish-ovate, red or orange, 

 sometimes round, crowjied with the iipHght segnimis of the calyx. 



North of Ireland. Shrub. June-November. Hibernian. 



Sect. II.— See page 204. 



§ 1. PlMPINELLIFOLI^. 



R. Sabini, Woods. Sabine's Rose. — e.b.s. 2594. l.c 345. 



Stem erect, with reddish-brown spreading branches; prickles 

 numerous, unequal, straight, or nearly so. Peduncles with glan- 

 dular setpe (stiff", glandular hairs). Leaflets 5-7, elliptical or 

 ovate, rounded at both ends, rarely acute, never acuminate, 

 doubly and sharply serrated with glandular secondary teeth, 

 hairy and pale beneath. Stipules rather broad, with sharp, spread- 

 ing auricles, glandular and hairy. Flowers solitary or in threes. 

 Calyx-tube ovate; segments about as long as the petals, hairy, 

 bristly, glandular, one or two with secondary linear segments. 

 Fruit dark-red, globular or somewhat urceolate, crowned with 

 the erect persistent segments^of the calyx. 



