54 THE BRITISH ROSES 
occasionally thinly so or even glabrous, biserrate, rarely uniserrate. 
Upper og ae with porrect or spreading auricles. Peduncles 
on 
Fruit ripening later than in the pomifera group, and less pulpy, 
always retaining its sepals, which ni somewhat pinnate, spreading 
or erect until long after it changes colour, and usually till its 
omplete maturity, but not till its decay. Styles villous, rarely 
fa hispid. 
‘Crosp of R. tomentosa. Usually tall bushes. Habit lax and 
arching, as in most canina forms. Prickles often stout and falcate, 
sometimes straight, seldom roth hooked. Leaflets more or less 
pubescent both sides, sometimes quite densely so, sometimes 
rose. Fruit soft when ripe, but hardly pulpy. Sepals, which are 
often quite pinnate, and flatter on the back than in the last is 
groups, reflexed or spreading and deciduous before the fruit tu 
colour, or at the latest, always tetone it ripens. Styles hi ispiadl oa 
glabrous, rarely woolly. 
GROUP OF ROSA POMIFERA. 
As already stated, I make this include both R. pomifera Herrm. 
and R. moliis Sm. They appear to be so intimately connected by 
tein dsakee that the differences are only specific, or, as some 
may think, only of a varietal nature. The leading features of the 
group may be recapitulated as follows. The bushes are rather 
short and erect, not arching as in most of the Hu-canine; their 
ase 
erage! rounded at apex, etimes acute but very rarely acumi- 
ee the eae penis with deltoid auricles. Most authors 
m a feature of the auricles of the upper stipules of the 
flowéring-branches being falcately incurved, instead of porrect or 
eg This is certainly not obse rvable i in dried specimens, 
r have I been able to discover what is meant from the few 
Bans specimens I have had an opportunity of examining. The 
sepals are entire or very ey pinnate, and are narrow and very 
rounded in transverse section. The most important feature is 
the complete erection and connivence of the sepals as the fruit 
ripens, and their persistence until its decay. There is no dis- 
articulation at their base, as is usual in the next group, but the 
bases become incrassated, and often redden with the fruit. 
i ill ead, so broad as 
to cover the whole disc, which is, however, not erence as some 
authors state, but narrow. 
Key Tro BritisH SPEcIEs. 
1 | large, oblong, rather thin. Prickles rather fow  ............ 2 
Leaflets smaller, oval or elliptical, thick. Prickles morenumerous 3 
