18 THE BRITISH ROSES 
Two other specimens of supposed RF. virginea Rip. require 
notice. One by Webb from Bisham Lane, Lancs, referred here 
by Déséglise, has slender curved, not hooked prickles, “fodtich dise, 
short loose puberulent styles, with globose not cylindrical head of 
styles. Not only are all these features quite opposed to ee = 
the Stylosa group, but the geographical situation is very m 
against its having he creeds name Briggs’s plant rare 
Gawton, Beer Ferrers, 8. Devon (Bot. Exch. Club Re pt. 1876, 
p- 17), must be wrongly named on account of its pair midribs 
and hispid st 
I gathered eet I believe to be the true pone in §. Devon last 
year. It has been accepted as correct by M. Sud 
Rosa STYLOSA var. EVAN 
Christ in Bot. Exch. Club Report for 1879, p. 12 (1880). 
“ Leaflets smaller, biserrate, almost glabrous, but with the 
hispid peduncles and bese styles of stylosa. The passage from 
stylosa to canina bise 
Nicholson, its rape a adds :—‘** A somewhat erect bush, 
5 to 8 ft. high. Prickles on barren stem in. long, and the scar 
almost as deep. Leaves of the barren shoots about 4 in . long, 
from the same locality agree thoroughly in ‘all aad with the 
eae cg = their ne sepals hispid at the back.” 
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aye striking apa that there can be no shadow of doubt 
s to their ident 
e nee eer large, stout, and hooked, entirely lack the 
remenediy cushion- “shaped base ch haracteristic of the group, thoughin 
The leatlets are medium to small, oval or elliptical, often remark- 
able for a long cuspidate or acuminate entire apex, which aga 
sometimes be described as caudate, such as I have seen in 
other rose. The toothing is coma usly fine and acute eistigh 
rather deep, = hice le rected forward. It is uniserrate, 
and ven occasio' — denticle is seen, the toothing could 
hardly be ‘eam not biserrate. y 
the most part, quite pabeous beneath, some of the leaflets having 
a little hair on the midrib ay ome at the base of the petioles, 
some Pact eco very short hairs in the furrow. The uncles 
