ROSACEA. 200 



green and more or less thickly coated with hairs above, paler more 

 hairy and frequently glandular beneath. Pedicels ratlier short, 

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

 ovoid, urceolate-ovoid or more rarely subglobose, glabrous or with 

 gland-tipped aciculi, scarlet when ripe, which is in the middle or 

 towards the end of autumn. Sepals sub-persistent, i.e. deciduous 

 before the fruit is ripe, leaf-pointed, pinnatifid, with gland-tipped 

 aciculi on the outside. 



In hedges, bushy places, and woods. Common, but not known 

 to extend further North in Scotland than Aberdeenshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



I cannot bring myself to think that this is more than a sub- 

 species of the preceding ; the fruit ripening later and the sepals 

 falling before winter being the only tangible points of diffei-ence 

 between them; indeed R. mollissima (Fries), R. pomifera (llerm.), 

 and R. tomentosa (Sm.), seem to be all sub-species of the Linnaean 

 R. villosa. Generally sjieakiiig, R. tomentosa may be distinguished 

 by its narrower and more pointed leaves, less rugose and less softly 

 hairy than in R. mollissima, and also by the more elongate pedicels, 

 longer calyx-tube and fruit, and more evidently pinnate segments. 

 The flower varies in colour, as in the preceding species, from deep 

 rose to white, and the fruit from smooth to slightly bristly. Mr. 

 Baker does not consider that R. scabriuscula (Sm. Eng. Bot. 

 No. 1896) and R. subglobosa (Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. III. p. 384) can 

 be distinguished even as varieties. 



Dovcny -leaved Sose. 



French, Hosier cotonneux. German, Filzige Rose. 



Section III.— RUBIGINOSiE. 



Small or moderately large bushes, with sub-erect or arching 

 stems. Shoots with the prickles scattered or somewhat crowded, 

 uniform or slightly unequal, often intermixed with aciculi and a 

 few gland-tipped setae, but not passing gradually into these. 

 Leaves glabrous, or slightly hairy above, hairy and with numerous 

 viscous often fragrant glands beneath. Pedicels in a corymbose 

 cyme, commonly with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Styles 

 not united. Fruit ovoid or roundish-pyriform, with sub-persistent 

 or deciduous petals. 



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