208 ENGLISH B(/rAXY. 



Section II.— VILLOS^. 



Large bushes with sub-erect or somewhat arching stems ; shoots 

 with the prickles scattered, uniform ; gland-tipped setae often few. 

 Leaves more or less hairy above, conspicuously so, and usually witli 

 reddish resinous glands beneath. Peduncles in a corymbose cyme, 

 commonly with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Styles not united. 

 Eruit mostly globose, with truly persistent or sub-persistent 

 sepals. 



SPECIES VI.— R OSA MOLLISSIMA. Fries. 



Plate CCCCLXVL 

 Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 33. 

 E. villosa, Auct. Angl. 

 R mollis, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2459. 



Prickles uniform, nearly straight, spreading or declining. 

 Leaflets broadly ovate, doubly serrate, rugose, greyish-green and 

 with a thick coating of soft white hairs above, paler more hairy 

 and with a few glands beneath. Pedicels very short, with oval 

 bracts, and with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Fruit often 

 nodding, sub-globose, rarely ovoid, glabrous or with gland-tipped 

 aciculi, scarlet when ripe, which is in the end of summer or 

 early autumn. Sepals truly persistent, leaf-pointed, entire or 

 slightly pinnatifid, with gland-tipped aciculi on the outside. 



In hedges, bushy places, and woods. Common, especially in 

 the North, though extending in range from the Isle of Wight 

 to Orkney. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A shrub 3 to 8 feet high, with rather large prickles, and soft 

 greyish very downy leaflets, the secondary sevratures gland- 

 tipped. Flowers 1^ to 2 inches across, varying from deep rose- 

 colour to white. Fruit f to f inch in diameter, ripening nearly a 

 month earlier than that of the other British species. 



Soft-leaved Rose. 



French, Rosier velu. German, Weichhldtterige Rose. 



SPECIES VII —R OSA TOMENTOSA. Smith. 



Plate CCCCLXVII. 

 Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 36. 



Prickles uniform, straight or curved, spreading or declining. 

 Leaflets ovate or elliptical, doubly serrate, slightly rugose, greyish- 



