THE BRITISH ROSES 
g { Peduncles hispid 3 
Peduncles smooth ; 4 
— — above, thinly hairy veins ee Sepals spread- 
r. cordifolia Baker. 
* | Leatlets hairy an and all over beneath. Sepals erect-connivent, 
R. Wilsont Borrer. 
{Lets ihatiane R. Aibbraioi Temp. 
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Leaflets biserrate 
Leaflets quite hairy. Sepals entire, per as 
voluta v. levigata Baker. 
Leaflets quite glabrous above. Sepals pinnate, epee glandular 
av. Webbit Baker. 
Sepals pinnate. Fruit scarcely urceolate ......... ar. glabra Baker. 
6 — entire or nearly so. Fruit quite ntcoolaie globose 
r. Grovesti Baker. 
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1 have included R. involuta vars. ieee and Webbit, also 
R. Wilsoni, as they are liable to be mistaken for members of the 
present group, if indeed the first two do not actually belong to it. 
Rosa HIBERNICA 
Templeton in Trans. Dublin Soe. ser. 2, vol. iii. 1802, pp. 162-4 
(1803). 
“It grows to five or six feet high; the sterns reddish, and a 
‘bse a ac pee above, lighter and = glaucous 
tion the pestiia & characters will be: rose with inverse pear-shaped 
fruit, smooth i and petioles, and round oval leaves 
asaploton'z s figure shows scattered not very numerous very 
irregular prickles, the largest rather small, moderately stout, ents 
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of acicles as often oceu the group. The leaflets are anne 9, 
ovate subacute with broad subtruncate bases, and simple rather 
con: : uncles are 1 to 3, long, smooth, fruit almost 
truncately conical, very broad and e marginate at base, about 7 by 
6 lines, with short erect entire meets shorter than itself, but there 
are two separate ae of the sepals, one showing all five long 
narrow and pectinate, as described, rathe er than pinnate; the 
other shows what I ve to be the commoner form, namely, 
: broader, two entire, and three decidedly pinnate. 
e€ above, as has been pointed out in Journ. Bot. 1907, p. — 
is Seckoesd ty the earliest description, and the name having 
beopoed by Templeton, he must of course stand as the Ene 
