4 THE BRITISH ROSES 
piel or ete The peduncles are very long, solitary or in 
mall clusters. They always bear sessile or shortly stipitate 
Bands which do not extend to the fruit. The latter is globose in 
the typical form, but varies somewhat. The styles are always 
completely united into a very long glabrous column. The petals 
are pure aoae with 8s claws, and the anthers are conspicu- 
ously ye 
lt is “cs very common plant in England, perhaps our commonest 
species of the ponte genus. Mr. Baker says it becomes rare in 
the north, and is very rare north of the Tweed. It is certainly 
very abundant la Cheshire 
R. ARVENSIS var. SCABRA 
Baker ex Gandoger in Decades Plant. Nov. i. p. 26 (1875). 
“ Prickles ss cic hooked. Leafiets ae Pie nerved, 
broadly obovate, acute, rounded at base, smooth except the glan- 
at Ae Mad midrib beneath, simply serrate. ‘Petioles prickly, 
minutely hairy, strongly glandular-muricate. Stipules glandular 
on the back. Peduncles hispid. Calyx-tube smooth, obovate 
seems og to oe it up a a speci es. 
It s to be distinguiabed solely by its more glandular 
petioles, a is not included in Continental lists. 
it as it was founded on Bri tish specimens, several of which, 
collected by Briggs in South Devon, are at Kew. It is probably 
generally distributed. 
RosA OVATA 
om bn Spa, p. 312 oe 
: petioles ounkiy. a little glan- 
uncles ace very AP S22 Fruit oval, glabrous. 
Styles glabrous, in a col Flowers white. 
This covers the forms of R. arvensis H a it 
later authors tage it, uds. with ovoid, or, as 
fruit ; but, to judge from spoitiens 
3, the form of t 
an that of the he fruit is more important 
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