ROSA POMIFERA 55 
Leaflets more or less parallel-sided, glandular beneath or not. 
Prickles very straight. Armature of peduncles and So stout 
. pomifera Herrm 
2) Leaflets parallel-sided or elliptical-oblong, very pladiolar beneath. 
Fi ay often slightly curved. Armature of ag ptt and fruit 
pte ondita Pug 
erat, saat smooth. Peduncles often smooth or n 
3 villosa var. eerie Woods. 
— Seong hispid-glandular. Paasuslse always hispid-glan- 
pst thinly hairy or subglabrous, densely glandular beneath, 
and often so above. Prickles very stra =i 
eudo-rubiginosa ae 
Bi pene hairy, almost or quite AEE beneath ......... 
are unequal. Leaflets often rather small, pubescence oo 
pules "bedsdl. with deltoid auricles. Sepals grees owers 
BR. bie rit Déségl. 
Prickles subequal. Leaflets larger, pubescence dull. Stipules nar- 
ow, auricles acuminate. Sepals pinnate. Flowers on Pre 
R. mollis Sm. 
es 
Rosa POMIFERA 
Herrmann, Dissertatio de Rosa, p. 16 (1762). 
“Calyx-leaves ire ese germen globose, aculeate, leaves 
tomentose both sides.—Stem vest shrub stiff, often reproducing 
the bush by the extension of the oot. Flowers small, purple in the 
= en 
spinules. Stipules sagittate, sad, hispid on edges, cusps erect. 
Spines of the stem glabrous, strong, at the nodes and internodes, 
incurved, green, fuscous in summer. Flowers at the beginning 
of summer.’ 
The above description, considering the period at which it was 
written, is fairly clear, yet while it goes into some detail on un- 
important Sas fails to give Se to those by which it 
may be distinguished from R. mollis Sm., for the simple reason 
that Sciber that nor any othe: specie ye: ‘of the group had then 
been described. The é following notes, drawn up from an examina- 
tion of Déséglise’s specimens and SEO as well as that of 
Keller, will, I think, make this species 
It forms a strong bush, 2-34 feet highs rarely reaching 5 feet, 
sometimes with a short trunk as thick as a Bark 
of branches dark shining brown. Prickles on prin never 
numerous, rather small, sometimes rather unequal, straight, 
