36 7 THE BRITISH ROSES 
spreading with long linear — often with one or two long 
narrow-linear pinne, and usually, not always, very glandular on 
back and edges. Styles in a dense woolly oo . Flowers pale 
rose, petals usually all fallen before the end of Jun 
pecimen in herb. Moore, collected in Dente and named by 
Mr. Baker, is probably the one referred to in the Monograph, 
It has no large prickles, but a considerable number of 
inconspicuous acicles. eaflets large, very broadly oval, very 
uch rounded at both ends, almost subcordate at base, the lateral 
ones oblique-based, coarsely toothed, the teeth with rather nume- 
rous small secondary denticles, more hairy above than usual, and 
and - Fos aa some g oS some not. is the ndaveidk to 
ie. Sabine that IT have seen 
bas 
from one another more than 
their descriptions show, but at the same time e they bear some 
superficial mutual ste nc pr The chief point of resemblance 
lies, I think, in the dark green suborbicular leaflets, with coarse 
primary toothing, the secondary denticles, a always present 
in more or less quantity, cre small po nconspicuous. They 
vary much in hairiness, but as a rule are thinly hairy to sub- 
glabrous above and seldom densely so ‘re ath ; the only speci- 
mens I have seen which are glandular other than on the midribs 
are my own from Ham Common. The prickles seem to bring this 
siciad prickles seem wite as S strona in favour t. 
certainly better placed between R. gracilis ged R. Sabini Sas 
tween the latter and R. rh as Mr. Baker places it. 
Rosa INVOLUTA var. GRACILESCENS 
Baker, oe Brit. sige p-. 206 a 
e terminal one 15-16 sae tess by near seme inch sere bib 
with few or no aciculi and glandular setx ; flowers 3-6 ina cluster, 
be.” 
ae gracilis, tat no sinliaieas 3 is made of the Recto nor "the saps. 
The elliptical calyx-tubes, 3 to 6 in a cluster, should be a con- 
_ Spicuous oie. 
