6 THE BRITISH ROSES 
stipitate glands mixed with the a these glands are also 
found on the barren shoots; the leaflets are larger, oval- —— 
those of the young shoots lanceolate ae tess cuspidate at the apex 
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shorter than the corolla. Flowers large. Styles united into a 
slender ~ column, from a conical salient disc. Fruit 
elongate-ovord, re 
This species was originally described as a variety under the 
name of &. stylosa var. gallicoides Baker in Monog. Brit. Roses, 
p. 240 (1869), in vst very similar to those of Déséglise, but as 
7 modern authors now consider it to be a variety or subspecies 
co) 
. arvensis, Which appears to dispose of the idea that our 
plant is one of the latter. 
‘he original station for Baker’s variety, on which Déséglise’s 
species was founded, is Chesterton Wood emit oo but Mr. 
dular form [of R. dibracteata] nearer typical arvensis, oy Chester- 
ton Wood. This variety I have called R. setosa on my herbarium 
A note on a of his specimens of BR. setosa says: 
; Be. gallicordes being, as I think, a yon id between bi- 
bracteata and spinosissima, ical bibracteata growing in th 
same hedge.” of we sali 4 
two, the difference is no greater than in the individuals of any 
species. A specimen from Chesterton Wood, said by Mr. Baker 
te be av ye rr R. eo ake corresponding to (but by inference 
om) his st Ul 
= gallevies by siete y var. gallicoides was placed to 
es. The coat are rather broader 
