THE BRITISH ROSES 
(EXCLUDING EU-CANIN2). 
BY 
Masor A. H. WOLLEY-DOD. 
sean Sages 
& paper published as a Supplement to this Journal in 1908, 
I dealt with “ The Subsection Hu-canine of the ates Rosa.” I 
now Bronvee to deal with the rest of the British Ros 
explained in the paper quoted, no two eather agree in 
their eothod of classification, and in so far as the general lines" 
which I haye adopted are concerned, the classification is a secon- 
dary consideration. My object is to collate author’s descriptions, 
with notes from = best available 7 agian leaving a classification 
Bae as some metho i is ‘essential, I have temporarily adopted 
that of Crépin in his “Tableau Analytique des Roses Européennes” 
66 
(in Bull. Soe. Ro oy. — Belg. xxxi. p. 66, 1892). Therein 
he makes six sections of the genus, viz. Synstyle, Stylose, 
Pinpinelifolia, ition Gallice, and Canine; of which 
momee and Gallice have no native British eee eee 
sHetieh one or two of each are more ~ ne a aliz 
Crépin (J. c.) thus defines his secti 
Styles agglutinated into a column more or less salient above the disc; ; 
upper stipules of — Beith i Balsa usually as narrow as the 
le ones ; stems usually sarm 2 
14 Styles free, not ‘salient above the Ske. the stigmas forming a little 
subhemispherical head covering the mouth of the eae 
ae stipules usually Kecudan than the middle ones; : 
Siylar. a slender, equalling the stamens; dise flat or little 
event te uter s sie enti 2 3 =a small rarely ‘olineseus lateral 
appen s; stems sarmen Synsty 
2. Stylar éohennti pateone, usually peers shorter than the stamens, 
usually v Is with 
imes 
scion very conspicuous a a upper ntiprilor narrow, 
dilated: stems Zaeuain dhe vitaiai 
or scarcely dilated: stems a li it 
JOURNAL OF Boraxy, JAN, 1910. [pose amane) b 
