44 THE BRITISH ROSES 
modern botanists. The Hu-canine parent must, of course, come 
from the dumetorum or cortifolia group, to account for the hairy 
leaves. aa 
Its leading features are more or less canina-like prickles, but 
this is often not very pronounced : they are irregular, but much 
less so than in the involuta group, with some acicles here and 
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usually coarsely, but rarely at all irregularly serrate, rather thinly 
hairy and quite eglandular beneath. Peduncles and subglobose or 
West Kirby in Cheshire and in Cumberland, and I poss SS 
specimen from Mr. Barclay, from between Mid and East Lothian. 
It, therefore, is probably quite a rare plant in Britain, and has not 
been satisfactorily identified on the Continent. 
Rosa HIBERNICA var. GLABRA 
Baker, Review of Brit. Roses, p. 21 (1864). 
In the notes following his description of R. hibernica Mr. 
Baker classifies its forms as follows :— 
“1. eu-hibernica. Peduncles naked, petioles hairy. Leaves 
hairy beneath. 
‘2. glabra. Peduncles naked. Petioles and leaves hairless. 
“3. cordifolia. Peduncles aciculate and setose. Leaves broader 
and more bluntly toothed, almost hairless.” 
I have seen no other description, but in Monog., p. 209, Mr. 
Baker mentions this as “a form with Sharper teeth and leaves 
quite naked.” 
There is certainly more in this variety than the above brief 
diagnosis expresses. It is no doubt a eu-canina Xx spinosisst 
hybrid, like hibernica itself, but with one of the g 
varieties of the ew-canine. In addition to the fact that its leaflets 
siderably narrower, quite elliptical (z.e., longish as compared with 
their width) and more acute or even acuminate, which gives the 
nt quite a different aspect to that of BR. hibernica. 
I have seen it growing near Meols, in Cheshire, where it is 
locally most abundant, in some places filling whole hedges, and 
_ growing to a height of 10 or 12 ft. It at once attracts attention 
by the peculiar ‘ bluish-green glaucous colour of its leaflets. 
mewhat irregularly serrate, as they are also on Mr. 
